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Title: Fictional rambles in & about Boston
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Prindle, Frances Carruth, b. 1867
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Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips and company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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alled Merrymount, after the 361 FICTIONAL RAMBLES home of the Lord of Misrule; but to thefictional rambler Ouincys most interestinglandmark is the historic Ouincy-Butler man-sion, haunted by memories of the bewitchingAgnes Surriage, one of the gayest of theguests in a country excursion to Mr. Ouincys,where the whole party with much merrimenttook part in catching eels they were to havecooked for supper from the brook at the bot-tom of the garden. Like the house the brookis still there, and beside it many times, nodoubt, sat the celebrated Dorothy Q., whowas born in the mansion. She, as all the worldknows, was the great-grandmother of the Auto-crat who, justly proud of her, has added toher laurels by this poem dedicated to herportrait : Dorothy Q. was a lady bom IAy ! since the galloping Normans cameEnglands annals have known her name ;And still to the three-hilled rebel townDear is that ancient names renown ;For many a civic wreath they won,The youthful sire and the grey-haired son.362
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3^3 IN AND ABOUT BOSTON Farther on toward the Blue Hills we findDedham. And this (Stimsons King Noa~nett) was the settlement they called Content-ment, for the Bay people were fond of finenames, taken from the Bible or their books ofPsalms. Most of this country (about 1670)was then a wilderness and the adventures ofCarew and Courtenay, in their endeavour tomake a home, and their encounters with theIndians, make a stirring and romantic pictureof times little known to the fiction reader untilMr. Stimson created King Noanett. V. NAHANT AND NANTASKET OF the many shore places about Bostonone of the most beautiful and exclu-sive is Nahant, on the north shore,an island but for the narrow strip of land thatconnects it with Lynn. Cold roast Boston,it was named by Tom Appleton, celebratedas a wit of the Hub. Tom Appleton hasbeen gathered to his fathers, but his nicknamestill clings. In Truth Dexter, the novelist 365 FICTIONAL RAMBLES tells us that Craighead was most anxious tosend his wife down

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