. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. therein depicted, together withthe names of the men, seventeen in number,who voted to rescind. Painstakingly Reverehas put just seventeen men into his cut-line at the top of this spirited caricatureis A Warm Place â Hell, and the representa-tion shows us Satan and an agile assistanthustling the renegades into a pair of monstrousopen jaws. Satan himself is exclaiming: Now,Ive got you! a fine haul, by Jove! while hisassistant is shown flying towards the first man,â intended to represent Hon. Timot
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. therein depicted, together withthe names of the men, seventeen in number,who voted to rescind. Painstakingly Reverehas put just seventeen men into his cut-line at the top of this spirited caricatureis A Warm Place â Hell, and the representa-tion shows us Satan and an agile assistanthustling the renegades into a pair of monstrousopen jaws. Satan himself is exclaiming: Now,Ive got you! a fine haul, by Jove! while hisassistant is shown flying towards the first man,â intended to represent Hon. Timothy Ruggles,who is evidently reluctant to leap into the yawn-ing maw, â with the command: Push on,Tim! On the extreme right of the picture,in order that there should be no doubt aboutits local application, is drawn in the cupola ofthe Province House, with its Shem DrowneIndian taking patient aim! The verse beneath the sketch was written 112 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS by Dr. Benjamin Church, afterwards convictedas a traitor to the American cause, who hap- A \^^RM Place â Hell. ( ZiUcutif cia^n* ^^ /uUuKj/ln pened into Reveres shop while the engraverwas at work on the plate. It runs: On brave Re cinders ! to yon yawning cell!Seventeen such IVIiscreants sure will startle hell;There puny Villains, damnd for petty Sin,On such distinguishd Scoundrels gaze and grin;The out done Devil will resign his sway,He never curst his Millions in a day. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 113 Another theme which Revere improved wasthe Boston Massacre. A third famous plateis his View of Boston in 1768, the Britishbeing depicted, in this drawing, as in the actof landing their troops. No less than sevenchurches, besides Faneuil Hall and the OldState House, are here to be seen, for all thatpart of Boston from the Old Brick Church to the * North Battery is included in the sketch. A very well-known piece of Reveres work ison the bill-head of the Cromwells Head Inn, afamous tavern on School Street, whi
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