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[188] over Hawthorne. This tale was first printed in Buckingham's New England Galaxy for Sept. 10, 1824; and that editor says of it: “This article was reprinted in other papers and books, and read more than any newspaper communication that has fallen within my knowledge.” The original story purports to belong to the year 1820, and the scene of a later continuation is laid in the year 1825, both these being reprinted in the Boston book for 1841, and in the lately republished works of William Austin. It is the narrative, in the soberest language, of a series of glimpses of a man who spends his life in driving a horse and chaise — or more strictly “a weatherbeaten chair, once built for a chaise-body” -in the direction of Boston, but never getting there, until extreme old age. He is accompanied by a child; and it subsequently turns out that he really left Boston about the time of the Boston massacre, before the Revolution (1770), and has been traveling ever since,--the explanation being that he was once overtaken by a storm at Menotomy, now Arlington, a few miles from Boston, and that being a man of violent temper he swore to
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