Those Who Have Never Tried It Can Have
No Idea How Far A Door, Which Keeps The Single Blanket Down, May
Go Toward Making One Comfortable.
We are constituted a good deal
like chickens, which taken from the hen, and put in a basket of
Cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die,
nevertheless, but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which
will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to
sleep directly. My only companions were the mice, which came to
pick up the crumbs that had been left in those scraps of paper;
still, as everywhere, pensioners on man, and not unwisely
improving this elevated tract for their habitation. They nibbled
what was for them; I nibbled what was for me. Once or twice in
the night, when I looked up, I saw a white cloud drifting through
the windows, and filling the whole upper story.
This observatory was a building of considerable size, erected by
the students of Williamstown College, whose buildings might be
seen by daylight gleaming far down in the valley. It would be no
small advantage if every college were thus located at the base of
a mountain, as good at least as one well-endowed professorship.
It were as well to be educated in the shadow of a mountain as in
more classical shades. Some will remember, no doubt, not only
that they went to the college, but that they went to the
mountain.
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