. A family flight around home. l. The streets therebent to follow the curve. But that is all dug down. Then, of course, in a seaboard town, from every wharf or pier,there ran up streets into the town. If you took a fan, and putthe centre at the Post Office Square, the sticks would be Waterstreet, Milk street, Pearl street, Federal street, and so on. Nowall this is just as much according to rule as if you made achecker-board. Only you must know what the rule is. I think it is a great deal nicer, said Bessie. The rule in practice is said to be, Find out where the placeis to which you go, and tak
. A family flight around home. l. The streets therebent to follow the curve. But that is all dug down. Then, of course, in a seaboard town, from every wharf or pier,there ran up streets into the town. If you took a fan, and putthe centre at the Post Office Square, the sticks would be Waterstreet, Milk street, Pearl street, Federal street, and so on. Nowall this is just as much according to rule as if you made achecker-board. Only you must know what the rule is. I think it is a great deal nicer, said Bessie. The rule in practice is said to be, Find out where the placeis to which you go, and take a horse car running the other way. Is it, really ? asked Hubert, still literal, although he had beenso lone: with Americans. THE FIRST DAY IN BOSTON. 327 No. That is a joke, said Bessie. Now we will go up to the State House. So they slowlypulled up the Park Street walk, up the high steps between thetwo bronze statues, stopped in the Doric Hall to see the statuesand the battle flags, and then slowly mounted the long stairways. THE HOUSE, BEACON STREET. which led to the lantern above the dome. Fortunately theLegislature was not sitting. When the House is in session visitsto the lantern are not permitted, lest the trampling on the stairsabove the Representatives Hall might disturb the hearers. When they had regained their breath, they looked round on the mag-nificent panorama which sweeps a circle of forty miles in diam- 828 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. eter, and Nathan lectured. His lecture must not be reported herein detail. But the main points of it shall be stated, because theygive the clew to the expeditions which the party made after-wards. They were so high that all the rest of the city was quite be-low them. Nathan was able to point out almost in a group,Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, and the Old South MeetingHouse of Revolutionary times. We will do those, he said, to-morrow, and then you can seewhere the tea was thrown over, and the scene of the BostonMassac
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