LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOSEPH HARDY NEESIMA
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!}6 SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DAYS. passed at Chatham with the family of Captain Taylor. On December 11th Captain Taylor was caught be­tween the ferryboat and the dock while landing at East Boston, and died almost immediately. Nee­sima's journal of this month contains the following passages:-"I write this to remember this sad event for myself, and al'lo to warn my friends to be ready always for the Master's call. It was on Monday morning, Dec. 13th, 1869, that a little fellow brought me a yellow letter, asking me quite briskly whether it belonged to me. It was a dispatch informing me that Captain Taylor was dead. It gave me a great surprise. I did not know myself what to

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