He has other do no harm s01e12 upon your interest and hospitality, with which he will acquaint you in his own delightful way. Even as grandfather he is too near, for one poet can lay a streak of poverty over three generations. He died there, leaving only debts and those who had great need of a better legacy-my mother and grandmother. As to my father, he had none of that fatal folly in him. He was a mountaineer of Vermont-a man do no harm s01e12 steely sinews that took well to the grip of a sword. He cut his way to fame in the Northern army when the British came first to give us battle, and a bloody way it was. I have now a faded letter from Ethan Allen, grim old warrior, in which he calls my father "the best swordsman that ever straddled a horse.