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- [S3679] Marriage of Samuel Harding - The Cincinnati Enquirer - 2 Jun 1934, (Name: The Cincinnati Enquirer; Location: Cincinnati OH; Date: 2 Jun 1934;), KNOWED WHAT HE WANTED.
GOD'S POCKET. By Rachel Field. Macmillan.
• Occasionally an unlooked-for treasure in the shape of a journal kept by an eccentric but engrossing forebear comes to light. Such is "God's Pocket," the diary of Captain Samuel Hadlock Jr, of Big Cranberry Island, Maine. The journal was given to Miss Field by the Captain's grandson just before he died. It is startlingly spelled and Miss Field found it as "free of punctuation marks as a frog of feathers." Carefully, with shrewd sympathy and loving talent, Miss Field has edited and expanded the journal into an account which is a treasure and a source of delight The hero was an adventuresome soul who out-Barnumed Barnum. Early in the Nineteenth Century he sailed for Europe with three Eskimos and a collection of Arctic curios which he exhibited at country fairs. Ireland, England, France, Prussia and Austria he saw them all and his comments about them are shrewd, penetrating. A simple man of little learning but great intelligence, he saw Europe from a different angle than Washington Irving or Benjamin Franklin. The Irish scandalized him; they were incredibly dirty. He entered Oxford in a shower of rain and was amazed at the doings of the scholars. Here he "dun torable wall concidering the wether so bad." In England his Eskimo woman died, and his unfortunate attempt to replace her with an English gypsy-the gypsy would get drunk-landed him in difficulties with the authorities. He left somewhat hastily for the Continent. He pursued a somewhat uneventful career to Charlottenburg where, without a word of German to assist him, he fell in love with the twenty-year-old daughter of a wealthy citizen. It was love at first sight. In the words of his grandson, "they looked at each other and they knowed." The excellent burgher fought a losing battle; Hadlock outwitted and outmaneuvered him at every turn. What other man but this fiery Yankee would have bought a house in Charlottenburg to please the burgher's demands, wed a blue-eyed girl to whom he couldn't talk, and exhibited his Eskimo before the King of Saxony, all in one week? At last, a declining interest in Eskimos or else a shortage of royal heads brought Captain Hadlock and his "Prooshan lady" (he couldn't get his tongue around her German name, so he called her Mary Hannah) and their two children home to Cranberry Island. But he had lived life at too grand a pitch. He couldn't settle down. And he was poorer in worldly goods. So away he sailed for the Arctic to get seals to stuff and sell to European museums. The book closes with the news of his death being brought to the lonely little Prussian lady of Cranberry Island. It is a fierce and moving end.
• The Cincinnati Enquirer • Cincinnati, Ohio • 02 Jun 1934, Sat • Page 10
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Abt 1806 - 1889 (83 years)
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