Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")
Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales") Passing a summer, several years since, at Edgartown, on...
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Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
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Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

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Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

$98.39 $49.17
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")

Passing a summer, several years since, at Edgartown, on the island of Marthas Vineyard, I became acquainted with a certain carver of tombstones, who had travelled and voyaged thither from the interior of Massachusetts, in search of professional employment. The speculation had turned out so successful, that my friend expected to transmute slate and marble into silver and gold, to the amount of at least a thousand dollars, during the few months of his sojourn at Nantucket and the Vineyard. The secluded life, and the simple and primitive spirit which still characterizes the inhabitants of those islands, especially of Marthas Vineyard, insure their dead friends a longer and dearer remembrance than the daily novelty and revolving bustle of the world can elsewhere afford to beings of the past. Yet while every family is anxious to erect a memorial to its departed members, the untainted breath of ocean bestows such health and length of days upon the people of the isles, as would cause a melancholy dearth of business to a resident artist in that line. His own monument, recording his disease by starvation, would probably be an early specimen of his skill. Gravestones, therefore, have generally been an article of imported merchandise. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 9215
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Release Date: Nov 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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