Rise and fight againe : the story of a life-long friend / by Samuel Merwin.

  • Samuel Merwin
Date:
1935
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rise and fight againe : the story of a life-long friend / by Samuel Merwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I If this attempt to set before the reader something of the personality and career of one of the most vital and interesting men of my acquaintance should appear to take on a strongly personal flavor, it is be¬ cause our friendship began almost fifty years ago. Forty-eight years, to be exact. And in the following manner. In September, 1886—another era in what now seems quite another world—my family moved from my natal town of Evanston, Illinois, to Detroit. We lived at first on Third Avenue near Joy Street. And here my brother and I found ourselves drawn into the usual group of neighborhood boys. 1 remember, always at twilight after what we naturally knew as supper, how we often sat in a long row on the curbstone and played Tishie, Fishie all the night’, with our caps for pledges and athletic tasks for penalties. I remember how we joined to¬ gether after school, winters, for organized snowball