Crossword-Solution: MECOM 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

When he became rich it was his delight to make happy the home of Jane Mecom--his poetic, true-hearted sister "Jenny," whose heart had beat to his in every step of his advancing life.

Mecom's, and tell her that Benjamin has come home." "Yes, yes, go and call Jenny." They talked together long: of Josiah, now gone; of Uncle Benjamin, long dead; and of Parson Sewell, and the deacons of the South Church, who had passed away.

Jamie the Scotchman joins in the rising applause, and he proudly turns to Jane Mecom and says: "Only to think what a friend I was to him, too!" They return by the Granary burying ground.

When Cornwallis was taken, Jane Mecom heard the Castle thunder again over the sea; and when Rochambeau came to Boston to prepare for the re-embarkation of the French army, she saw her brother's hand behind all these events, and felt like one who in her girlhood had been taken into the counsels of the gods.

Old folks and old trees, if you remove them, 'tis ten to one that you kill them, so let our good old sister be no more importuned on that head; we are growing old fast ourselves, and shall expect the same kind of indulgences; if we give them, we shall have a right to receive them in our turn." Jane Mecom--the "Jenny" of Franklin's young life--had one great desire as the years went on: it was, to meet her brother once more and to review the past with him.