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Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER VII
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Some had been occupied by old Tories.

Among them was the Craigie House still standing, having been Washington's headquarters, and now more famous still as the residence of Longfellow.

There were a few old gentlemen wandering about the streets who were survivors of the generation which just followed the Revolutionary War, among them Dr.Jennison, the old physician, and Dr.Popkin, the old Greek professor, of whom a delightful life was written by President Felton.

Mr.Sales, an old Spaniard, had given lessons in Spanish from time immemorial.

He was a queer looking old gentleman, who had his gray hair carefully dressed every day by a barber, wearing an ancient style of dress, covered with snuff, but otherwise scrupulously neat.


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