I said:
"William, it is fortunate that you did not live in the Revolutionary
time. How you would have hated General Washington." He replied,
with a smile that indicated the gratification he would have
had if he could have got at him: "He was an old humbug, wasn't
he?"
But Robinson was always on the righteous side of any question
involving righteousness. He was kind, generous, absolutely
disinterested, and a great and beneficent power in the Commonwealth.
CHAPTER VI
FARM AND SCHOOL
I spent my life in Concord until I entered college except
one year when I lived on a farm in Lincoln. There I had
an opportunity to see at its best the character of the New
England farmer, a character which has impressed itself so
strongly and so beneficently on our history. Deacon James
Farrar, for whom I worked, was, I believe, the fifth in descent
from George Farrar, one of the founders of the town of Lincoln.
All these generations dwelt on the same farm and under the
same roof. An ancient forest came to a point not far from
the house. That, with a large river meadow and some fertile
upland fields, made up the farm.
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