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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n were brought back again; and Miss Lejeune did not fail to-buy some bananas for the party in the market, that they mightkeep Peter Faneuil well in their memory. The Historic Hall is over the market, and always open to visitors,and here the party spent half an hour in looking at the pictures.Mr. Horner told them of the last and only time when he heardWendell Phillips there. It is not the largest hall in Boston, but itis still the favorite hall for any public meeting about some publicinterest, where people are not expecting to sit down. The gentlemen joined the party by appointment here, and theyall went to lunch together. They then went up the Equitableelevator and mounted the tower, so that the ladies might see thesea view. And they finished the days excursion by going into theOld South Meeting House. This old meeting house was twice as big as Faneuil Hall ofthe Revolution, so that the crowded town meetings of those daysoften adjourned to the Old South. As the patriots called Faneuil
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CITY HALL, BOSTON. THE SECOND DAY. 339 Hall the cradle of liberty, Governor Gage called the Old Souththe nursery of rebellion. The religious society which formerlyoccupied it built, a few years ago, a new church in the westernpart of Boston, and sold this meeting-house to an associationwhich wished to preserve it as a memorial of the history of Bos-ton. The sellers did not wish to have any opposition church estab-lished in the old building; they therefore put a • provision in thedeed, that for twenty years it should not be used for public reli-gious purposes. It is probably the only spot in the United Stateswhere, by the expressed wish of a church, public worship is for-bidden. The travellers found a great deal to interest them in the meet-ing house,— relics of the past there preserved. The boys, indefatigable,obtained leave to climb up the spire, from which it is said that theEnglish governor. Gage, saw the embarkation of his troops forBunker Hill, and what he could see of the ba

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