1642-1892Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form ..to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn . eganTo rear, kick and plunge, while the Devil did say, Hart, stop ! for your quick wit has won you the day. As I cant follow you on that Holy Place,Like a decent devil, Ill give you the race ;With three hundred in gold, and my bonnie Jet Black,On whom you can bet safely on any race track. Then the fiend disappeared in sulphurous Sam did the horse of infernal breed trainTo a well behaved racer, whose matchless swept in the stakes, and all
1642-1892Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form ..to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn . eganTo rear, kick and plunge, while the Devil did say, Hart, stop ! for your quick wit has won you the day. As I cant follow you on that Holy Place,Like a decent devil, Ill give you the race ;With three hundred in gold, and my bonnie Jet Black,On whom you can bet safely on any race track. Then the fiend disappeared in sulphurous Sam did the horse of infernal breed trainTo a well behaved racer, whose matchless swept in the stakes, and all records broke. morale. Dont rayce xviiii a ftenbe. ClDoib a bv^iTtal boomc ; Xt?l^o suppcs xvitl\ tl^e Pcotlle stjoulb tjaoc a long spoone. * The Tottingham House stood on the George Flagg homestead, corner of Main and Kilby streets,t The Burbeen House was an old garrison house, and stood nearly where the Unitarian parsonage now stands, on Main street, just south of Hammond Square, and quite near the The church was the one above described. Hunting Legends of Woburn. List! list! list! To the sound of the pack in full •N 1830 it would not perhaps have beenmuch exaggeration to have calledWoburn the Happy HuntingGrounds, for the game then was soabundant, and of such a variety, asalmost to have satisfied Nimrod himself. This city at that time was mainly an agriculturalplace, with forests of old wood, which afforded shelterfor game. The many ponds and streams, then betterfilled than now, were the haunts of numerous furbearing animals, as well as wild fowl and fish, whilemost of the New England states then furnished grainfields enough to tempt the wild pigeon {Edopistesviigratoria), the quail {Ortyx virginianus), 2^Vi^ thepartridge ( Tcti^ao jimbellus), to remain and increaseamong us ; while in the streams and ponds, the mus-quash {Ondatra zibethica), was everywhere abundant;the mink {Mustela vison), the raccoon {Procyon lotor),and the fox ( Vulpes fulvus), all very
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