Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Works: Being a Brief Biography and Critical Review
Know old Cambridge Hope you do Born there! Don't say so! I was, too. (born in a house with a gambrel-roof, Standing still, if you must have proof.
Gambrel - Gambrel - Let me beg You'll look at a horse's hinder leg, First great angle above the hoof, That's the gambrel hence gambrel-roof.) In his writings are many references to his childhood and his childish experiences. Thus in the Autocrat.
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