have a very vivid imagination to see in it a great amphitheatre with only one entrance, the gradually sloping hills, the seats, and the arena sometimes covered with water and sometimes a field of moving grain. On the front seats are located the house, the barns and sheds. When Alonzo was a boy all the buildings were in good repair."

CHAPTER III.

THE PARENTS.

BENAJAH AMES MINER and his wife, Amanda

Carey, the parents of Alonzo,-what of them? Naturally the thousands who revere the memory of the son will gratefully welcome any particular touching characteristics of his father and mother, and may well be curious to know in what regard the traits reappear in the man who was destined to make the name of Miner a household word in thousands of homes all over the land. The writer never saw the mother; but when she passed from earth, Dr. Miner, giving but few particulars, said of her, in an accent denoting the tenderest affection, and conveying far more than the simple words: "My mother was a good woman; I am firm in my belief that I never knew a better woman." The father was present at a Commencement annual of Tufts College during Dr. Miner's presidency. He sat upon the platform, and of course was the specially "observed of all observers." He was in venerable years, giving no sign of the physical energy which characterized him in the days of his strength; though, seen at a distance, the eye betokened not a little of the mental force that was so characteristic of the son. Again the Rev. Mr. Parker will delight the reader with pertinent and representative particulars. He says: