Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . CAMBRIDGE CAMP. 255 fragrant memories, culled for the readers of the Atlantic,does honor to the pOets self. It is certainly no disadvantageto have first drawn breath in a house whichwas the original headquarters of the Ameri-can army of the Eevolution, and in whichthe battle of Bunker Hill was planned andordered. The old house is pleasant to lookat, though built originally for nothing morepretending than a farm-house. It has athoroughly sturdy and honest look, like itsold neighbor, the Presidents house, and innothing except its yellow and white paint
Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . CAMBRIDGE CAMP. 255 fragrant memories, culled for the readers of the Atlantic,does honor to the pOets self. It is certainly no disadvantageto have first drawn breath in a house whichwas the original headquarters of the Ameri-can army of the Eevolution, and in whichthe battle of Bunker Hill was planned andordered. The old house is pleasant to lookat, though built originally for nothing morepretending than a farm-house. It has athoroughly sturdy and honest look, like itsold neighbor, the Presidents house, and innothing except its yellow and white paintdoes it seem to counterfeit the royalist man- wendell. sions of Tory Eow. The Professor tells us it once had a rowof Lombardy poplars on the west, but now not a single speci-men of the tree can be found of the many that once stoodstiffly up at intervals around the Common. The buildingfronts the south, with the College edifices of its own timedrawn up in ugly array before it. Beyond, in unobstructedview, are the Square, the church with its
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