“ When Rose Terry was six years old, her parents moved into Hartford. Her father educated her in out-door lore, and she was familiar with birds, bees, flowers and sunshine. She was carefully trained at home, and in school she was brilliant and noted fur the ease with which she learned and for her skill in versification when only a child She was graduated in 1843, and, although only sixteen years old. became a teacher in Hartford She afterward taught in New Jersey. Family needs called her home, and she then began to study with the intention of becoming an author. ”