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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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wardin Garden Street, stands the historic old Christ 293 FICTIONAL RAMBLES Church, the graveyard of which is of fictionalinterest as being the spot where Ralph(Coopers Lionel Lincoln) under exciting andgruesome conditions, told Lionel the strangestory of his parentage. Thou hast reachedthe spot, dramatically announced the old man, where moulder the bones of one who longsupported thee. Unthinking boy, that sacri-legious foot treads on thy mothers grave.The rambler will look in vain for this fictitiousgrave, but there are many actual ones of inter-est, notably that of Madame Vassall whowas one of the family whom Agnes andthe Collector (Agnes Surriage) visited atHobgoblin Hall. She lived in the man-sion now known as the Longfellow House,and the poet pays his tribute to the greatlady: In the village churchyard she lies.Dust in her beautiful eyes ; No more she breathes, nor feels, nor stirs ;At her feet and at her headLies a slave to attend the dead-, But their dust is as white as hers.294
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C rt £ -v. (U _ — !> oj c c; O ■5 I c C i> o £ £c c o ^95 IN AND ABOUT BOSTON Nearby, on what is now a part of the groundsof the Law School building, stood (until 1884)the o-ambrel-roofed house which was thebirthplace of the Autocrat, and in Revolution-ary days the headquarters of General ArtemusWard — where many stirring military incidentsoccurred. Lovingly and lengthily the Auto-crat writes of this house in A Mortal Antip-athy while everyone is familiar with his de-scription of it in his poem Parson TurrelVsLegacy. Know old Cambridge ? Hope you do —Born there? Dont say so ! I was too.(Bom in a house suith a gambr el-roof,—Standing still, if you must have proof.— Gambrel ?— Gambrel f —Let me begYoull look at a horses hinder leg,—First great angle above the hoof,—Thats the gambrel; hence gambrel-roof.) One of his most famous poems, Old Iron-sides, was written here. Across the way in Garden Street is the his-toric old Washington elm gazed upon withawe by Mr

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