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The first sight of ‘
Jimmy Lowell’ made a lifelong impression on the younger boy's mind as the former came galloping to school on a little white pony, although he lived only a few rods distant.
Wentworth's own home was a mile away, and he often dined at the school.
Afterward he recalled with amusement the fact that the old custom of serving pudding before meat lingered there.
Athletic sports, as well as the humanities, were warmly encouraged by
Mr. Wells, and the afternoons spent in cricket, football, and skating on
Fresh Pond were always remembered with boyish glee.
After leaving the school, his brother Waldo wrote thus to the younger boy about
Mr. Wells:—
There are few men that I like better, and I came to this state of feelings through some hard floggings, which I am glad your better behaved shoulders have escaped.
When
Wentworth was nine, his mother recorded that he had read a great many books and was especially fond of natural history.
A year later, she added that he had mastered the
Latin grammar.
The following summary of
Wentworth's virtues from the same, perhaps not unbiased, source, may well bring the maternal records to an end:—
He has genuine refinement and delicacy, with manliness and power of controlling himself and a
