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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
ts. He loved to talk with his friends, Elder Staples, the minister, Deacon Warner, and Skipper Evke her as a sinner beyond forgiveness. Elder Staples and Deacon Warner were her fast friends. Theo or three sour old busybodies, who, as Elder Staples well says, would have cursed her whom Christ ust at the foot of which we encountered Elder Staples and Skipper Evans, who had been driving theirforded us a comfortable resting-place. Elder Staples, in his faded black coat and white neck-clothhool-day companions, the classics, said Elder Staples; but I remember Horace only as a light, wittlves to the warm fancy of boyhood. Ah, Elder Staples, there was a time when the Lyces and Glyceras eternal night. It reminds me, said Elder Staples, of the sad burden of Ecclesiastes, the mournn eagle in the air. The eagle, said Elder Staples, seems to have been a favorite illustration o exactly keep alongside of him. I told Elder Staples once that I did n't see but that the Doctor c