. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ommon sash windows, like an ordinary dwell-ing house. These windows hadbright red curtains too, hung onslack strings across the lowerpanes, so that it looked like theparlor of a Lilliputian public house,which had got afloat in a floodor some other water accident, andwas drifting nobody knew even in this chamber therewas a rocking chair. It would beimpossible to get on anywhere, inAmerica, without a rocking was just before this
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ommon sash windows, like an ordinary dwell-ing house. These windows hadbright red curtains too, hung onslack strings across the lowerpanes, so that it looked like theparlor of a Lilliputian public house,which had got afloat in a floodor some other water accident, andwas drifting nobody knew even in this chamber therewas a rocking chair. It would beimpossible to get on anywhere, inAmerica, without a rocking was just before this visit ofthe great novelist that the railroadhad been built from Boston toSpringfield. The people of thetown had been eager to bring thisto pass. They knew that great things would come of it andJustice Willard declared in a public meeting that one would beable to go from Springfield to Boston between sun and when he added and back again, there were those whothought it a wild prophecy. Pictures of the early engines andcars look queer to our eyes. The passengers had to endure somebumping over rough track but they welcomed something faster. Connecticut River Steamboat IN A Marco Paul at the Spring-field Armory , OLD TIMES AND NEW 125
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