Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Old Story Retold. [ARTICLE]

Old Story Retold.

Charles Francis Adams was escorting an English gentleman about Boston. They were reviewing the different objects of attraction, and finally came to Bunker Hill. They stood looking at the splendid monument, when Mr. Adams remarked: “This is the place, sir, where Warren fell.” “Ah!” replied the Englishman, evidently not very familiar with American history. “Was he seriously hurt by his fall?” Mr. Adams looked at his friend. “Hurt!” said he. “He was killed, sir.” “Ah, Indeed!” the Englishman replied, still eyeing the monument and commencing to compute its height In his own mind. “Well, I should think he might have been—falling so far.”— Harper’s Weekly.