Word: cobbler
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...writer is "thoughtfully taken" and in the main fair, the criticisms upon private and high schools are rather severe. There are undoubtedly many inefficient high and private schools, but such sweeping condemnation is hardly just. The article is clearly and forcibly written. The last article is "King Cobbler," a character sketch." The idea is original though scarcely realistic. The story is told picturesquely and with a touch of pathos which is very effective. Two short pieces in verse, some book notices and the Advocate's Brief fill out the number, which, though marred by many typographical errors, is nevertheless...
...What would our good friend, Dr. McKenzie, be, if he were debarred tracing his professional lineage back to Thomas Shepard? There too was Nathaniel Ward, who framed for the young Colony its "Body of Liberties," and who held up to their gaze some of their foibles in his "Simple Cobbler of Agawam?" What a void in the history of toleration would exist if Roger Williams with his doctrine of Soul-liberty, as he called it, had not passed, for the good of both, I suspect, from the bay of the Massachusetts to that of the Narragansetts? These were...
...ordered a cobbler...