Saturday, April 28, 2012

 

I Shan't Bow

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (February 11, 1838):
He [Thoreau] told as we walked this afternoon a good story about a boy who went to school with him, Wentworth, who resisted the school mistress' command that the children should bow to Dr Heywood & other gentlemen as they went by, and when Dr Heywood stood waiting & cleared his throat with a Hem! Wentworth said, "You need not hem, Doctor; I shan't bow."



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