Old Concord, her highways and byways; . Her Highivays and Byways. the old house looks at one with a gentle dignityas if it held itself aloof from all other dwelling-places that must yield to the inroads of Time. Aswas observed of the Minott House, it is most. THE OLD WINTHRDP HOUSE. favorably placed for an artistic effect ; all its group-ings adding to the quaintness of outline, and itsweather-stained front. Within, is one of the old-time gentlewomen who, carrying her ninety yearslightly, meets one graciously as if on the thresholdof life; glad to open for a new-comer her store ofreminiscences
Old Concord, her highways and byways; . Her Highivays and Byways. the old house looks at one with a gentle dignityas if it held itself aloof from all other dwelling-places that must yield to the inroads of Time. Aswas observed of the Minott House, it is most. THE OLD WINTHRDP HOUSE. favorably placed for an artistic effect ; all its group-ings adding to the quaintness of outline, and itsweather-stained front. Within, is one of the old-time gentlewomen who, carrying her ninety yearslightly, meets one graciously as if on the thresholdof life; glad to open for a new-comer her store ofreminiscences of noted people and places in the I 34 Old Concoj^d. old town. This is the home of friends of Thoreau,who grew up witli him, into sympatliy with Natureand truth. In front, and quite near to the stone wall, stoodthe quaint, old Winthrop House. Beautiful oakpanelings modeled from the homesteads in OldEngland, adorned this interior. When the dwel-ling was taken down, some thirty years since, asheathing to a beam, being torn off, disclosed anaccount written in chalk, of a sale of lumber, overa century and a half ago recorded there, coveredand left, a silent witness of the past. We drive home, crossing the river at the RedBridge. The western glow drops do
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