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Identifier: bookofboston00shack (find matches)
Title: The book of Boston
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Shackleton, Robert, 1860-1923
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CHAPTER IV ON THE PRIM, DECOROUS HILL
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(HE streets of Boston are peopledwith shadows of the past; shad-ows of those connected with thehistorical or literary Boston thathas gone. Nor are all the figuresBostonians. Here is Dickens, af-ter a long winter days tramp outinto the country with James T.Fields, hilariously swinging backi/ to the city in a wild snow storm; I but suddenly, near the junction of the Common and Charles Street, disappearing fromview in the swirling snow clouds, only to be dis-covered on the other side of the road helping to hisfeet a blind man who had fallen helplessly in a drift.Here is Thackeray driving down Tremont Street tothe lecture hall, with his extremely long legs hilar-iously stuck out of the carriage window in sheer joy-fulness that all the tickets for his first lecture hadbeen sold! For it will be remembered that Thack-eray came over to give to the Americans all fourGeorges in return for the one George that we hadconcluded to do without. Can you imagine the feel-ings of the sedate Bostonians a

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  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__The_Penn_publishing_company
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  • bookleafnumber:46
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