HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, WHOSE PEN, Have so Nobly Illustrated the Valor and Genius of their Country: THE AUTHOR, In a Spirit of Profound Admiration for THE RENOWNED SOLDIER, And of Measureless Gratitude to THE IMMORTAL WRITER, Dedicates This Book. * * * * * CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE GLAZIER FAMILY. Lineage of Willard Glazier.--A good stock.--Oliver Glazier at the Battle of Bunker Hill.--The home of honest industry.--The Coronet of Pembroke.--The "Homestead Farm."--Mehitable Bolton.--Her New England home.--Her marriage to Ward Glazier.--The wild "North Woods."--The mother of the soldier-author 21 CHAPTER II. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF WILLARD GLAZIER. The infant stranger.--A mother's prayers.--"Be just before you are generous."--Careful training.--Willard Glazier's first battle.--A narrow escape.--Facing the foe.--The "happy days of childhood."-- "The boy is father to the man" 27 CHAPTER III. EARLY LIFE AND HABITS. Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism of twenty-five years ago.--The "little deacon."--First days at school.--Choosing a wife.--A youthful gallant.--A close scholar but a wild lad.--A mother's influence.-- Ward Glazier a Grahamite.--Young Willard's practical jokes.-- Anecdote of Crystal Spring.--"That is something like water" 34 CHAPTER IV. WILLARD GLAZIER AT SCHOOL. School-days continued.--Boys will be boys.--Cornelius Carter, the teacher.--Young Willard's rebellion against injustice.-- Gum-chewing.--Laughable race through the snow.--The tumble into a snow-bank, and what came of it.--The runaway caught.--Explanation and reconciliation.--The new master, James Nichols.--"Spare the rod and spoil the child."--The age of chivalry not gone.--Magnanimity of a school-boy.--Friendship between Willard and Henry Abbott.--Good-bye to the "little deacon" 42 CHAPTER V. ECCENTRICITIES OF HENRY GLAZIER. Henry Glazier.--A singular character.--"Kaw-shaw-gan-ce" and "Quaw-taw-pee-ab."--Tom Lolar and Henry Glazier.--Attractive show-bills.--Billy Muldoon and his trombone.--Behind the scenes.--"Sound your G!"--The mysterious musician.--What happened to Billy.--"May the divil fly away wid ye!" 50 CHAPTER VI. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.