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The picturesque farm house on the slope of the "painter hill" three miles below the village of Oxford, on his return to the austere home in Coventry where the Presbyterian Deacon swing the hammer of Calvinist redemption over the red hot sins of the imperious.  In the Owen family there were six children, three boys and three girls.  I have already mentioned my Uncle Marcus-, the oldest, who was a music teacher and married my Fathers eldest sister Augusta.  My Mother came next-, she was endowed with an exquisite soprano voice which had some cultivation.  Then came Frederick and de Los, both like wise gifted with a taste for Music and Literature. These two brother became watch makers and jewelers in the village of Oxford.  I remember my Uncle Fred's guitar kept in the parlour which was usually closed and awesome with the rays of sunlight penetrating through the always closed green blinds, where I used to go and try to pick out chords on the strings, while the odor of some aromatic herbs kept in the vases on the mantle piece gave to the room and odor all its own.

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