‘Here are the throngs descended from strong Walter,
No neck among them ever felt the halter;
They’ve sailed the seas from Hong Kong to Gibraltar,
On plain and hill have reared the home and altar—
Typhoon and blizzard never made them falter!
Some clans get fresh, our clan is growing salter.
Read well this book, and thank the Lord for Walter.’

Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine and His Descendants
_{—Chas. N. Sinnett. 1905}