CHAPTER XIX.

The Old New England Home.--The Sheltered Village.--The Ancient Buildings.--Dormer Windows.--An Old Puritanical Home.--The Old Puritan Church.--The Burying-Ground.--Deacon Smith, his Habits and his Helpers.--Major Simeon Giles, his Mansion and his Ancestry.--Old Doctor Styles.--Crapo Jackson, the Sexton.--"Training Days."--Militia Dignitaries.--Major Boles.--Major General Peabody.--Preparations and Achievements.--Demolition of an Apple Cart.--"Shoulder Arms!"--Colonel Asher Peabody.--The Boys, and their World.--My Last Look at my Native Village. 239