ous workmen of the various establishments of which he was superintendant, were assembled to look upon the almost living features of their master. One general shout of heartfelt delight proved the excellence of the likeness; but when a favorite cat, who was accustomed to sit on the General's shoulder while he ate, came in, and made various efforts to place herself on the accustomed seat, tears flowed from every eye. The hardy but subdued workmen moved silently away, one by one, and audible sobs evinced the still deeper feeling of those more nearly interested, in the long absent original.

The other picture is of a boy-but before I describe it, I must tell the tale which makes it interesting, and this will involve something of the history of General Roscoe.

This gentleman was an Englishman by birth, who removed to Massachusetts while it was yet a colony. Active and enterprising, enthusiastically fond of civil and religious liberty, and determined to make America his permanent home, he immediately selected a spot favorable for manu

factories, and in a few years established works of various kinds on an estate of five hundred acres, forming one of the beautiful peninsulas of what was then called the Bay State. The peninsula when he settled upon it, was a forest of trees, save here and there a cleared spot, probably the home of some original owner of the soil. In one of these openings our young adventurer built his cottage. His wife was accomplished in all that renders woman lovely. Nature had given her strong powers of mind, an intuitive perception of the grand and beautiful, and a person dignified and striking. Her voice was attuned to kindness by nature, and education had refined her mind and manners. And it was real refinement. It shrunk from the touch of vice, but never from the calls of duty. She could perform the most menial offices; visit the abodes of sickness, want, and wretchedness; watch with the dying, and with unwearied tenderness bring peace, cleanliness, and comfort, into the abodes of poverty and disease. She was a Christian indeed; and felt a noble consciousness of that

true dignity, which no employment can degrade. It scarcely need be added, that such a woman soon rendered their new home delightful. A hardy, industrious set of laborers and manufacturers were collected, and suitable accommodations were built. The forest trees were judiciously removed from such parts of the grounds as were suitable for the manufacturing establishments; a splendid mansion house was erected; gardens were laid out with taste, and even elegance; flowers were cultivated, fruit trees planted, and fences built with strength and neatness. A few years elapsed and the farm appeared a new creation. Most of the forest trees, indeed all that were not wanted for wood, or reserved for ornament, were gone. Fruits, flowers, poultry, cattle-everything which gives beauty and indicates plenty, abounded.

Our adventurer now had reasonable hopes of securing, in his newly adopted country, the means of rational independence and domestic quiet. He had usurped no one's rights; he had furnished employment for a large number of laborers