easily accessible from without. In the night the cows, about twenty in number, were collected and driven into the cellar, and the entrance barricaded. In the morning, the owners coming for their cows, were told that they could not have them until they agreed to yard them during the night. In consequence of this refusal, excitement began to run high; an attack on the college was apprehended, and the students prepared to defend their prisoners. One of them, named Darling, picked up a boy who was very abusive and put him over a fence in the rear of the college. A short time after, the father of the lad, named Baldwin, approached with stones in his hands and dashed one of them through a window in the college building. A general rush was the consequence, and in an instant the villagers were flying before a shower of stones and brickbats. It was not long before a constable appeared and arrested Darling for assault and battery upon the boy. A crowd followed him into the presence of the magistrate who was to try him. the assault there was no question; but it was proved that the boy was very insulting and was not injured. The magistrate announced his decision to be a fine of two dollars. There were several hisses mingled with cries of" Appeal!" "Appeal!" The magistrate told the constable to arrest those who insulted the court; the constable replied, "I cannot distinguish them." The students then left the room, formed a procession, marched yelling by the complainant's house, and some of them threw stones at it. The cattle were released in the evening; but this was not the end of the affair, as far as Baldwin was concerned.

He kept a horse in a neighboring pasture. One morning the horse had changed his color, and the words "Two dollars" appeared in large letters on each of his sides. Baldwin was a goldsmith, and had a large bow-window in his shop, against which hung many watches. First his sign was stolen; then a large stone was dashed against his bow-window, scattering the watches all over his shop, and doing some of them serious injury.

About one hundred and thirty dollars had been subscribed by the students to enable Darling to prosecute his appeal, but both parties became anxious for a compromise, and it was finally effected. In this affair Kendall sympathized with the object of the students, and was one of those who attended Darling's trial and formed the procession; but he had nothing to do with shutting up the cows, and disapproved of the outrages committed upon Baldwin.

Another affair, more ridiculous in its origin, but more serious in its termination, soon after agitated the little community of Dartmouth College. Two of Kendall's classmates, Benjamin Prescott and John H. Slack, were bantering each other, at first in frolic, when Slack, becoming excited, said he would.not take a banter. Thereupon Prescott challenged him to a fight with pistols on the morning of the 4th of July, at an hour and place which he named. Slack consulted some of his classmates, who told him his honor was concerned, and he must fight. On the evening of the 3d of July Slack invited Kendall to his room, and asked his advice. He was advised to see Prescott, in company with others, and bring about an explanation. This he declined, but was persuaded to write. Kendall and two others then went with the letter to Prescott's room, where they found him with his second. He declared that there must be a fight, and instructed his second to answer Slack that he expected to meet him the next morning at the hour and place appointed. He acted his part so well, that Kendall began to doubt whether he was not in earnest, and taking him aside asked him what he meant. He said he meant to test Slack's courage, but that nobody would be hurt. Having arrived at the true state of the case, Kendall returned to his room, not unwilling to see the game played out.

The next morning Prescott and Slack were summoned before the faculty, and Kendall and others called up as witnesses. Though it was proved that, so far as Prescott was concerned, the whole affair was a joke, the faculty sentenced both parties to six months' rustication, Prescott, because he would not say that he thought duelling in all cases wrong, and Slack, because-though he thought it in all cases wrong- he would not say that he would in all cases refuse to fight. Prescott's second was condemned to read a public confession as a punishment for the part he had taken in the joke.

There was little sympathy for Slack, but much for Prescott. The three higher classes sent in a petition for a remission of the penalty; the Freshman class was divided, a part signing the petition and a part sending in a remonstrance. The result of this division in the class was much bitter feeling. It happened that Kendall was absent when these papers were drawn up and presented. On his return he found that both parties counted on his adhesion, but he sided with neither, because he considered petitioning useless and remonstrance unnecessary.

The justice of Prescott's punishment, however, as well as the expediency of Slack's, is very questionable. In effect, one was punished for not belying his opinions, and the other for admitting that he might be impelled by circumstances to do a wrong act. The plain duty of the teachers having charge of these young men was to reprimand their folly, and endeavor to instil better principles into the one and more correct views of moral duty into the other.

Prescott never returned to Dartmouth College; Slack returned and graduated with the class.

CHAPTER II.

THE most interesting association formed by Mr. Kendall in college, resulted from his membership in a private club for mutual improvement, which had been organized in the autumn of 1807, and was unknown to him until he was invited to join it. It was composed exclusively of members of his class, not more than a dozen in all; it had no constitution or regulations, no officers, the members presiding in alphabetical order, and meeting weekly at their own rooms. Its exercises were composition, declamation, and forensic discussion; all participating in each, not by appointment, but in alphabetical order. It was the duty of all to observe and criticise the performances of each, and this function was uniformly exercised in a kindly spirit. Care was taken to invite none into the club who were not of irreproachable moral character and sincerely desirous of self-improvement. Though no injunction of secrecy was imposed on members, the understanding was that they should not speak of their club to outsiders, and its existence was apparently unknown out of their own circle during their whole college life. Never was a club more orderly, though without rules of order, and never were the objects of an association more steadily and faithfully pursued. It is with an affectionate remembrance that their names are here recorded: namely, Joseph Perry, Jonathan Curtis, Daniel Poor, Jonathan Fowle, Nathaniel H. Carter, Robert Crowell, Theophilus Wilson, Joseph Bailey, David Pierce, Daniel Rockwood, William Cogswell, Samuel Woodbury, and Caleb Chase.

In July of this year Kendall made a visit, in company with his classmate, Daniel Rockwood, to Windsor, Vt., West Parish, where lived a Mr. Cummings who married a sister of his father. They desired to ascend Ascutney Mountain, about three miles distant, and two young men, his cousins, consented to accompany them. The cousins proposed that the party should ride on horseback to the mountain, and up as far as practicable; but being full of life

and confidence the young students declined their offer. With a lunch and a bottle of rum, they started on foot early in the morning. The day was exceedingly warm, but they went forward with much spirit, though frequently checked by the cousins, until they were about half-way up the mountain, when they began to feel the effect of the heat and rapid walking. Resort was had to the rumbottle to recruit their wasted strength. Around the top of the mountain the trees had been killed by fires, and decaying trunks had fallen across each other in every conceivable direction. Among them was a luxuriant growth of tall weeds. Rising above the whole, on the very summit, was a large rock. Up this they climbed, and were rewarded by one of the finest views in nature. On the west was the Green Mountain range; on the east were the mountains of New Hampshire; to the southward and northward the Connecticut River valley on both sides was skirted by a magnificent hill-country dotted with improvements. The river itself washing the foot of the mountain, and meandering through a narrow plain which formed the bottom of the valley, exhibited its silvery waters in many windings, like a succession of small lakes, giving a finish to the enchanting landscape. The isolated mountain on which they stood seemed like a tower raised in the midst of this magnificent scenery, merely to enable man to enjoy its beauties.

But alas! scarcely had the eye taken a general view of the scene, when a duskiness, like approaching night, seemed to be creeping over it. The cool air of the mountain-top, combined with the reaction of the unusual stimulant they had swallowed, closed the pores of the body and brought on a drowsiness which was perfectly overpowering. The young students, descending from the rock, made pallets of weeds, and had scarcely lain down upon them before they were fast asleep. The sun was low in the west when the cousins awoke them, saying it was time to go. On rising Kendall's sinews seemed to be unstrung, and his limbs refused to obey his will. He told his cousins that he was utterly unable to walk, and begged them to form the best shelter they could of the dead limbs and weeds, and leave him there until the next morning. They said he could go, and should; and taking him by the arms forced him forward. Becoming excited, he broke from them and ran some distance over logs and rocks with perfect recklessness, not caring whether he broke his neck or not. Becoming warm with exercise,