. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . n named Ephraim, a lad some fifteen years old, — old Ephraim andyoung Ephraim, the townspeople called them. The Village Improvement and Folk-Lore Society, as an activeorganization in the old town had come at last to be called, passedsome singular resolutions in the spring of 1S93. This society hadbegun as a village improvement effort; but it had found so many oldtraditions and legends in its historic work that it had added to it theHistoric Society, under the name of the Folk-Lore Society. Theworkers in this organ
. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . n named Ephraim, a lad some fifteen years old, — old Ephraim andyoung Ephraim, the townspeople called them. The Village Improvement and Folk-Lore Society, as an activeorganization in the old town had come at last to be called, passedsome singular resolutions in the spring of 1S93. This society hadbegun as a village improvement effort; but it had found so many oldtraditions and legends in its historic work that it had added to it theHistoric Society, under the name of the Folk-Lore Society. Theworkers in this organization had given a number of entertainments 14 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE WHITE CITY. on the evenings of patriotic holidays, and had saved several hundreddollars for public use. Manton Marlowe had been the leading-mind in these societies. He had arranged the entertainments for theholiday evenings, had conducted excursions into historic fields, hadbeen a leader in the repair of old roads and the marking of historicplaces. He was a good story-teller, and he had collected the old.
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