Tarry at home travels . Destruction of Tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Harbor a tea pot to-night! Hurrah for Gritfins Wharf! side of Our Father, with whom she works insuch exigencies. When I went to school, the custom in teachinggeography was to begin with the Arctic Regionsof America, and work slowly down with the vaguehope that some day you would arrive at NewZealand as a sort of Z at the end of the Paul Rkvkke. From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. 161 MASSACHUSETTS 163 But in practice, what with change of mastersand of text-books, you were forever beginningwith Greenland, reading about
Tarry at home travels . Destruction of Tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Harbor a tea pot to-night! Hurrah for Gritfins Wharf! side of Our Father, with whom she works insuch exigencies. When I went to school, the custom in teachinggeography was to begin with the Arctic Regionsof America, and work slowly down with the vaguehope that some day you would arrive at NewZealand as a sort of Z at the end of the Paul Rkvkke. From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. 161 MASSACHUSETTS 163 But in practice, what with change of mastersand of text-books, you were forever beginningwith Greenland, reading about the sea seen byMackenzie and the seas seen by Mr. Hearne, andprobably never travelled far beyond the UnitedStates. For me I never studied at school anygeography of Asia or of Africa, and I will say ina whisper that it has made no difference whetherI ever did or did not. But we did advance inmy boyhood so far as to be taught that Massa-chusetts was celebrated for its fisheries, and forthe part she had in the Revolution. It wasalso stated that the climate was good, but thatin the spring easterly winds arise which arevery disagreeable. These facts, and no others,I think, were impressed upon the youthful is interesting to me to remember that I neverheard an east wind spoken of till, at the ageof eleven, I had to learn this sentence, and I askedat home if this were true. So indifferent arelittl
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