He at once hurried home
and set himself resolutely to work to take care of himself.
He was an accomplished naturalist for his age and time, and
had a considerable library of works on natural history. He
exchanged them for law-books and entered the Law School. I
was splitting wood to make my own fire one autumn morning
when my door, which was ajar, was pushed open, and I saw a
face somewhere up in the neighborhood of the transom. It
was Gray, who had come to inquire what it was all about. He
had little knowledge of the rules or fashions of the Law School.
I told him about the scheme of instruction and the hours of
lectures, and so forth. We became fast friends, a friendship
maintained to his death. He at once manifested a very vigorous
intellect and a memory, not only for legal principles, but for
the names of cases, which I suppose had been cultivated by
his studies in natural history and learning the scientific
names of birds and plants. At any rate, he became one of
the best pupils in the Law School. He afterward studied
law with Edward D. Sohier, and immediately after his admission
became known as one of the most promising young men at the
Bar.
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