QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER

AND

Mason's Corner Folks

A PICTURE OF NEW ENGLAND HOME LIFE

BY

CHAS. FELTON PIDGIN

B o s t o n C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 9 0 5

Respectfully dedicated to the Memory of the late HON JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL the perusal of whose f a m o u s p o e m "T h e C o u r t i n" supplied the inspiration that led to the writing of this book.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER'S

only title was plain "Mr." His ancestors were tradesmen, merchants, lawyers, politicians, and Presidents. He, too, was proud of his honored ancestry, and I have endeavored in this book to have him live up to an ideal personification of gentlemanly qualities for which the New England standard should be fully as high as that of Old England; in fact, I see no reason why the heroes of American novels, barring the single matter of hereditary titles, should not compare favorably as regards gentlemanly attributes with their English cousins across the seas.

C.F.P.

Gray Chambers, Boston, October, 1902.