. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. Tlie corner-stone was laid, with Masonic ceremo-nies, in 1830. It is built of granite, with towerssixteen feet square, surmounted with battlementsand pinnacles. The doors and windows are offine liammered granite. The blocks of graniteare triangular, and it is a very handsome build-ino;. Thore is no other in Massachusetts like it. 174 SPECTACLES. So Mr. Hamilton told me. I was glad to seethe carriage with Mrs. Hamilton in it, at thedoor. She told me, Jeanie and the boys were atthe Museum, and if I hurried I might meetthem there. So I was very glad to leave
. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. Tlie corner-stone was laid, with Masonic ceremo-nies, in 1830. It is built of granite, with towerssixteen feet square, surmounted with battlementsand pinnacles. The doors and windows are offine liammered granite. The blocks of graniteare triangular, and it is a very handsome build-ino;. Thore is no other in Massachusetts like it. 174 SPECTACLES. So Mr. Hamilton told me. I was glad to seethe carriage with Mrs. Hamilton in it, at thedoor. She told me, Jeanie and the boys were atthe Museum, and if I hurried I might meetthem there. So I was very glad to leave , who was so grave and silent; andhasten on, hoping to see them. Have you ever seen the Museum ? The build-ing from the street is so handsome, when the. long rows of ground-glass globes are the balconies are ornamented with flagssometimes. It stands very near the Stone Chapel and theburying-ground of the poor colonists, who suf-fered and died so early from privation and descendants should be more plain in theirtastes, and more severe in their laws. MUSEUM. 175 . I stopped to buy my ticket at the door, butthere was a tall gentleman there who would notlot me pass, and I had to wait for a lady and herlittle girl to be attended to, before I could makehim heed me at all. This is such a favoriteplace of amusement for strangers to visit. Atlast he saw me, — of course he saw me before,but it was of no consequence, as I was only aboy, who could wait. I folded my hands behindme, and tried hard to be patient, and after I haddetermined not to care, then everything seemedto go right. The stout old gentleman kindlymoved, and spoke to me, — the lady and the lit-tle girl smiled on me, and the lady said, Hereis a young man
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