. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The Old South Church 70 New England the neighboring public schools and see the punish-ments inflicted, and there would usually be a curiouscrowd in the street gathered about the spot. Some-times women wereJHh| 7 brought there from ^^^^B^P iA prison in a cage ^^Bj^^f ^^L on a cart. Then they were tied to thered-painted whip-ping-post and giventhirty or forty lasheson their backs. Thepillory was on aplatform, and whena man had his handsand head made fastin it he had to stand,scarcely able tomove, exposed toinsulting words, andperhaps pelted wi
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The Old South Church 70 New England the neighboring public schools and see the punish-ments inflicted, and there would usually be a curiouscrowd in the street gathered about the spot. Some-times women wereJHh| 7 brought there from ^^^^B^P iA prison in a cage ^^Bj^^f ^^L on a cart. Then they were tied to thered-painted whip-ping-post and giventhirty or forty lasheson their backs. Thepillory was on aplatform, and whena man had his handsand head made fastin it he had to stand,scarcely able tomove, exposed toinsulting words, andperhaps pelted withrotten eggs and gar-bage. The stockswere about as bad,for, though the culprit sat down, his legs were grippedtight between two blocks of wood. It was just below the Old State House that the BostonMassacre occurred in 1770. The Bostonians were feel-ing a good deal irritated because two regiments of. The Old State House at the head ofwhat used to be King Street incolonial days. In the lower right-hand corner of the picture is thespot where the Boston Massacreoccurred, March 5, 1770 Boston, Old and New 71 British soldiers were quartered in the town, and abouteight oclock on the evening of March fifth a group ofboys gathered aroimd a British sentinel on the snow-cov-ered King Street, and began taunting him. Presentlyhe struck a barbers apprentice, who was one of the lads,a blow with his musket, and the boy went off crying. About the same time a crowd, which had collectednear the barracks on Brattle Street, got into a scufflewith the soldiers there. Then some men lifted a boythrough a church window, and he rang the bell. Thecitizens in their homes thought this was an alarm ofiire, and they came flocking forth with their fire several of them were passing the sentinel in thesquare below the State House, the barbers apprenticecame along and called out, That man knocked medown
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