Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — Rustic New England in Old England. [ARTICLE]

Rustic New England in Old England.

While in England I caught a man in Windsor Forest who spoke to me in the intonations of rustic New England. He was simply of the old stock, and was speaking in the old tongue they brought over to them to Boston. It is going home to the old nest; it is finding the old steadfast human heart and life; it is face matching face and eye matching eye and footstep matching footstep across the gulf of 200 years. For we all go home who cross the sea and find out afresh how one day may be to us also as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, so deep and sure are the roots, of this grand old life of the English-speaking race. —Hobert ColIyer. English sparrows were first introduced into this country in 1858 by a gentleman named Dubois, in a garden in Portland, Me.