Capitolo 55
The visitors of Danz in the poem of Longfellow--men in that you/they had played busy parts
the world that acts, and you/he/she had gone again adrift to the Old Strawberry Bank in the
calm sunset of their careers. I can say me, in to pass, that these
ancient sailors, after having fought with appalling hurricanes and typhoons
on every known sea, he/she was not infrequently drowned in pleasant
you alter in the small sail-boats on the River of Piscataqua. Old sea-dogs that
you/he/she had commanded ships of four or five hundred tons it had they naturally disdain
respects for the potentialities of sail-boats twelve feet along. But there
it had not to be any further increase of these odd batons--if I can call them
then, in any disrespectful humor--later that innocent-looking at parallel bars
Connected Portsmouth indissolubly in the capital of the Republic of
Massachusetts. All the conditions would be changed, the old angles
to be cut away, new horizons to be concerned. The individual as a
I individualize eccentric, it was to suffer the great changes. If he were
extinct becoming--an a little probable thing--him you have to lose at least his
prominence.
However, as I said me, local character, in the sense in that the term
you/he/she is used here, you/he/she was not immediately killed; a long death died, and
so peacefully passed away and silently as not to attract general, or
perhaps some, notice. This period of the gradual resolution fell during mine
childhood. The last of the lifted hats had gone out, and the platform had
you enter, you crave first my time; but the certain pieces of color, the certain half
obsolete customs and discards of the past, had gone away still on. I was
not too late, for example, to pick up the last town crier of city--a Nicholas
Newman that I contemplated with reverential fear, and it now recalls with a kind
of the affection.
Nicholas Newman--Nicholas was a nickname his/her true being of name,
Edward--it was a more respectable person, very short, cross-eyed rather
arc-what it has legs, and with a bell out of every proportion to his/her stature. I have