Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

10 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
formed by the publication of a weekly journal, centered and intensified his interest in his occupation, his home and town. It was
because he did not roam abroad, that he rambled so perseveringly
and so satisfactorily at home. It was because he lived so entirely by the inward light, that he avoided those foibles which checker, and those enterprises which modify, the lives of most men.
It was because he delighted and to some extent lived in the past,
that the public are favored with this and the preceding volume.
It was because in his tastes and aspirations he was unlike most
men, and sought a fact as resolutely as he would adhere to a
principle; because he hesitated at no toil which would establish
a date, or illustrate a character; because he would take as
much pains to authenticate an anecdote as Audubon to find a new
bird,-that we have an accurate and trustworthy account of the
men and events of past times-a work which will inseparably connect the name of Charles W. Brewster with the history of PortsmouAth and the State.
I applied to the schoolmates of Mr. Brewster for some account of his boyhood and youth. One of them replied, that it
w vras so even that there was nothing to relate, except that he
was better and more sedate than the other boys." Another said:
1 His boyhood was as even and regular as his subsequent life."'
He first attended the school of "Aunt Betsey" Lakeman, a well
known teacher of young children, sixty years ago. He then attended the North School, taught by Deacon Enoch M. Clark,
and subsequently the school taught by Mr. Taft, in what was
then called the Brick School-house, on State Street. The last
school he attended was that of the late Henry Jackson, in 1817.
Having completed, under the tuition of Mr. Jackson, his school
education, in his sixteenth year, on the 16th day of February,
8118, he began to learn the business of a printer in the office of
the'Portsmouth Oracle," then published by Charles Turell,
and his connection with that paper continued from that day
until his death,-a period of more than half a century. At
the end of that time Stephen H. Simes was the only person
thon remaining in business on Market Street, who was in business
there in the early years of his apprenticeship on that street.'ithe first manuscript he put in type was an article written by