...house of Dr. Singletary, where I had been fortunate enough to secure bed and board. The little village of Peewawkin at this period was a well-preserved specimen of the old, quiet, cozy hamlets of New England . No huge factory threwits evil shadow over it; no smoking demon of an engine dragged its long train through the streets; no steamboat puffed at its wharves, or ploughed up the river, like the encha...