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Across from Seiters, on the corner of DeWitt Street and Brattle Road, lived the Krumbaars with a son, Douglas, about my age who became a good friend. I think Mr. Krumbaar was a lawyer, and they lived well. They had an attic playroom where Doug had a sensational model railroad set-up where we'd spend hours, fascinated by the action.

Back of Krumbaars on Brattle Road, lived the Grants in a cozy little house surrounded by trees and gardens. Mr. Grant was a partner in Grants Hardware store, the biggest in town. They had a daughter, Eleanor, a snappy little brunette, who was a cousin of Virginia Kingsbury. I liked Eleanor but not romantically as I did Virginia.

Across the street from the Grants, lived the Jennys in a big, English-type house of brick and stucco and wood trim, and behind the Jennys' house, there was a huge parklike area of maybe two or three acres in lawn and trees which was shared by several adjoining homes. Mr. Jenny was a lawyer and counsel for the DL&W railroad--I believe he had an office in New York for the latter job. There were three kids, John, Alexander and Cornelia. John, whose nickname was Chunky for obvious reasons, was my age and a good friend. Among other things, he was quite a stamp collector and I used to trade stamps with him. Also, many of us enjoyed climbing the many trees in the area behind Jennys' house, not the safest thing to do but I don't recall any of us ever being seriously hurt by falls or otherwise.

On down the line a few hundred yards beyond the Grants was the Tracys. Mrs. Tracy was a southerner and I believe that through her, the Tracy boys were distant cousins of mine. Mr. Tracy was a prosperous lawyer and they had a big house with plenty of yard including a field big enough for us kids to play baseball and football in which we did quite extensively during the proper seasons. The boys were Osgood (Otz), John and the baby, Sedgwick. They had a daughter also, named Ellen, who was younger. Otz was about my age and John a couple of years younger. The Tracy place was a big hangout for years.

The Tracys lived on the edge of a big potential residential development area called Sedgwick Farms and out at the very end of Brattle Road, virtually in the fields, was a lone house occupied by the Leonards, a family also related to the Kingsburys and part of the "set". They had a daughter, Charlotte, buxom and a bit older, and a son our age named Lucius who became a part of the gang on a parttime basis for some reason. I remember that the Leonards had a black Dodge sedan with yellow wire wheels along around 1912-13 which I admired greatly. Later we were to vacation with the Kingsbury-Grant-Leonard clan in the Adirondacks.