To Have Had Hours Such As I Have Had In These Mountains, And With Such Men As Dr. Bushnell And Dr. Shaw And Mr. Twichell, And Others I Could Name, Is Worth All The Money The World Could Give." He Read Character Very Well, And Took In Accurately The Boy Nature.

"Tom" (an irrepressible, rather overdone specimen), - " Tom's a nice kind of a boy; but he's got to come up against a snubbin'-post one of these days." - "Boys!" he once said:

"You can't git boys to take any kinder notice of scenery. I never yet saw a boy that would look a second time at a sunset. Now, a girl will some times; but even then it's instantaneous, - comes an goes like the sunset. As for me," still speaking of scenery, "these mountains about here, that I see every day, are no more to me, in one sense, than a man's farm is to him. What mostly interests me now is when I see some new freak or shape in the face of Nature."

In literature it may be said that Old Phelps prefers the best in the very limited range that has been open to him. Tennyson is his favorite among poets an affinity explained by the fact that they are both lotos-eaters. Speaking of a lecture-room talk of Mr. Beecher's which he had read, he said, "It filled my cup about as full as I callerlate to have it: there was a good deal of truth in it, and some poetry; waal, and a little spice, too.

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