she remembers the illumination that night for the distinguished guest, and the occasion is particularly impressed on her mind, for the fence in front of her father's house was set on fire by some light placed upon it.
Hero worship began early with me. For no reason that I can give, before I was nine years old Daniel Webster had caught my imagination, and stories about him, and his pictures, have had a fascination for me from that time.
In later years I stood beside his burial-place in Marshfield with a feeling of reverence.
He was the orator at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument, and again at its completion in 1847.
My father, as a young man, was present at the latter occasion, and from his lips I had the story of his seeing this great man, and of the immense throng gathered there.
A later hero that strongly appealed to me was Edward Everett, who died fifty years ago, January 15, 1865.
In my first scrap-book, begun in childhood, I put a piece by T. W. Per
Daniel Webster in his coffin.
--We find the following account of the funeral of Col. Fletcher Webster, and of the inspection of his father's remains, in last week's issue of the Plymouth Rock:
The tomb at Marshfield once again opens wide its portals to receive the last of the sons of the "great expounder."
The funeral of Col. Fletcher Webster took place in Marshfield on Wednesday.
September 10th. The body was brought down from Boston in a bly ca isoned hears with four horses, bMarshfield on Wednesday.
September 10th. The body was brought down from Boston in a bly ca isoned hears with four horses, by way of gh m and South Shore.
Several coaches conveyed his Boston friends from the E gston depot, while a large assemblage gathered from the neighboring towns.
Rev. Mr. Alden, the village past of, conducted the services, the body resting on his father's writing table in the library, according to the dying request.
A large procession followed his body to the tomb where the coffin was deposited.
By request of Petor Harvey, Esq., and others, the oaken box containing the great statement's
