Tarry at home travels . The Stourbridge Liox, the FirstLocomotive m AiiERicA (1829). 148 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Welloslcy, Massachusetts. For this rock partsthe Boston and Worcester Raih-oad, which hebuilt, from the great Cochituate water-pij^es, whichhe hiid there to give hfe to Boston. As the surveys for the raihoad began, and asthey went westward, I and my older brother. The Veazie Railroad, Bangor, Maine (1836). Nathan, who explained all things in life to me,were apt to be out with the parties of engineersan3^where between Boston and Worcester. Amongother things, those years meant for us an
Tarry at home travels . The Stourbridge Liox, the FirstLocomotive m AiiERicA (1829). 148 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Welloslcy, Massachusetts. For this rock partsthe Boston and Worcester Raih-oad, which hebuilt, from the great Cochituate water-pij^es, whichhe hiid there to give hfe to Boston. As the surveys for the raihoad began, and asthey went westward, I and my older brother. The Veazie Railroad, Bangor, Maine (1836). Nathan, who explained all things in life to me,were apt to be out with the parties of engineersan3^where between Boston and Worcester. Amongother things, those years meant for us and mytw^o sisters that we used to color maps of easternMassachusetts so that the townships might beclearly distinguished. In that household we w^ere a unit; wdiere one MASSACHUSETTS 149 went all went, and so the year I was four yearsold we all went down to Cape Cod. A year or twoafterwards, in a great open barouche, we allcircumnavigated Cape Ann, Fullum driving withthe assistance of myself and my brother. Oneof those hot summers we went on the canal-boatGeneral Sullivan to Lowell, taking only a dayfor the journey, which now requires forty-fiveminutes. On that day I saw my first tadpole,and my mother put him into her thimble. Joyof joys, in just such a l^arouche, as soon as theschool vacation came round, every year if possible,we were all taken to the family altar a
Size: 2068px × 1208px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondonmacmillancol
