. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . THE MAIN STAIRCASE IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC of Louis St. Gaudenss lions, in commemoration of the Massachusetts troops. 14 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS It brings you so near to them, Christine declared ; and even the in-tensely modern and practical Jack affirmed that it was as great fun hunt-ing up the stamping-grounds of all those old Boston fellows as shooting upto the twelfth story of the Ames Building, or seeing a ball game on SoldiersField — and you may be sure that Jack di
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . THE MAIN STAIRCASE IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC of Louis St. Gaudenss lions, in commemoration of the Massachusetts troops. 14 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS It brings you so near to them, Christine declared ; and even the in-tensely modern and practical Jack affirmed that it was as great fun hunt-ing up the stamping-grounds of all those old Boston fellows as shooting upto the twelfth story of the Ames Building, or seeing a ball game on SoldiersField — and you may be sure that Jack did both these PARK STREET GATE, BOSTON COMMON. The State House in the distance. Under Rogers guidance, and with Uncle Tom as showman, they visitedthe sites of Franklins boyhood home and John Hancocks vanished man-sion ; they found the place in Court street where the house of James Otishad stood; they looked up the sites of Warrens, Everetts, Sumners,Wendell Phillipss, and Prescotts homes ; of the birthplaces of Paul Revere, IN BOSTON TOWN 15 who roused the country-side for Lexington fight, and of Morse, who in-vented the telegraph — the plain wooden house almost in the shadow ofBunker Hill. And all these are in Boston! exclaimed Bert. Good for the Hub! cried Jack. Is there any other town that canshow so many, Uncle Tom ? Whereupon Uncle Tom had an idea. He s full of em, Jack declared; but this just tops them all. It did seem to. For it was nothing more or less than a pilgrimage tothe homes of famous Americans.
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