. King's handbook of Boston harbor. aremany very quaint and interesting scenes, connected with the lives andavocations of the toilers of the sea. Several of their homes and out-buildings are the cabins and upper works of defunct steamships which havebeen burnt on Apple Island; and the state-room which sheltered a Knicker- 126 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. bocker princess or a Beacon-Hill Hypatia may now give protection to thedomestic animals or the dripping nets of a Point-Shirley lobsterman. Occasionally a premonitory flutter of activity animates the Point. Someone is going to make it a fr
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. aremany very quaint and interesting scenes, connected with the lives andavocations of the toilers of the sea. Several of their homes and out-buildings are the cabins and upper works of defunct steamships which havebeen burnt on Apple Island; and the state-room which sheltered a Knicker- 126 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. bocker princess or a Beacon-Hill Hypatia may now give protection to thedomestic animals or the dripping nets of a Point-Shirley lobsterman. Occasionally a premonitory flutter of activity animates the Point. Someone is going to make it a freighting-point for ocean-steamships, with a standard-gauge track connect-ing it to the Eastern Rail-road ; some one else is goingto start the wheels of industryin the half-dismantled copper-works ; or a great companywill run fast excursion-steam-ers a dozen times daily fromBoston to this wharf, to rivalthe glories of Nantasket. Butthese halcyon days never come,and again the amphibious resi-dents resume their lives ofcalm
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