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Title: Historic Boston and its neighborhood ; an historical pilgrimage personally conducted
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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his surrender, General Heath, the Amer-ican commander here, accompanied him.There is the Governors house, said Bur- 128 HISTORIC BOSTON. goyne, as ttey passed it. ^ Yes, said a rudeboy wlio jostled tliem, ^and on the otherside is the riding school. For when Bur-goyne was in Boston before, the cavalry hadused the Old South for a school of horseman-ship. I believe you have been in the old meet-ing-house. The steeple is the same whichshook in the October gale of Mr. Longfel-lows ballad, when— It tolled the bell in the towerAs it tolls for funerals. Walk on; let the cars go down MilkStreet. At the corner of School Street yousee the Old Corner Bookstore, very littlechanged since Longfellow and the MutualAdmiration Society met there, and Fieldsand Whipple and Warren Sawyer and thatyoung set met Holmes and Lowell and Par-sons and Hawthorne there. Go a little far-ther, and you come to the old State Houseagain. On the upper corner, on one side, wasGeneral Knoxs bookshop. Opposite was the 12
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ANOTHER DAY IN OLD BOSTON. 129 best inn in town in 1776. I think Howehad his quarters there; I know that Wash-ington took np his there, after his army en-tered. He took the landladys little daughter onhis knee. Well, little lady, you have seenthe English soldiers, and now you see theYankees—which do you like best ? . Children are not good liars, and on Wash-ingtons knee no one, I suppose, could tell alie. The child said truly that she liked theredcoats best. The general laughed. Yes, indeed, hesaid, they have the best clothes. But ittakes the ragged boys to do the fighting.This story the little girls daughter told mein 1857. And here, dear Polly, we must stop. Butperhaps you can find your way alone toCopps Hill, and poke about among the tombsand graves there. Here Gage and Biu^goynewatched the fight at Bunker Hill, whereHowe, then Gages subordinate, was leadingthe right wing up to the rail fence. And 130 HISTORIC BOSTON. here the well-informed janitor will tell youhis stories. One m

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