The Bodleys telling stories . treets, and Martin had to pay close attention to Mr. Bottom, but before lonu they had conie upon Beacon Hill, where it was quieter. Papa, Nathan asked, why do they call this Beacon Hill V Dida beacon li\e here once ? A beacon ? Why yes, hke Beacon Thayer. Deacon Thayer, that is, Thanny. A beacon is anofhei- thinu;.Did you never lieai of a beacon . ?• Oh. I have, said l*hip|»\-. •• Vou burn a great tar-b;iriel on thehill, and all tlie ])eople round in the country see it, and they Hocktogether and cry. Io armsl To arms, my countiymeni I ve readabout it in a book. HI
The Bodleys telling stories . treets, and Martin had to pay close attention to Mr. Bottom, but before lonu they had conie upon Beacon Hill, where it was quieter. Papa, Nathan asked, why do they call this Beacon Hill V Dida beacon li\e here once ? A beacon ? Why yes, hke Beacon Thayer. Deacon Thayer, that is, Thanny. A beacon is anofhei- thinu;.Did you never lieai of a beacon . ?• Oh. I have, said l*hip|»\-. •• Vou burn a great tar-b;iriel on thehill, and all tlie ])eople round in the country see it, and they Hocktogether and cry. Io armsl To arms, my countiymeni I ve readabout it in a book. HISTORIC BUILDINGS. 107 AV^ell, that s not very far out of the way. There used to he abeacon on this hill, long before the State House was here. It was aHttle back of where the State House is, wdiich was then the top ofthe hill, but the hill has since been shaved down. The beacon wasa great mast planted in the ground wdth spokes set in it at regulardistances on one side and another, so that a man could climb by 7. /- ,. Hancock s House means of them to the top. At the top was a tar-barrel, ready to belighted on the approach of an enemy, so that notice could be givento all the country about. The first one w\as raised when John Win-throp was living, nnd there was one that stood all through the Rev-olutionary War. That was blown down in 1789, and the nextyear a monument was built on the spot to the memory of those whofell at Bunker Hill; but that was taken down twenty years or soafterward. Here we are now at the Hancock House. This is 108 Till-: i:oi>:ys -; sioinics. diU of tin laiucr and liner lioiiscs. ol wliicli tlicrc were a u<»()<lniaii\- at one time. See. tliere is (|iiite a piece ol^roimd in IVoiit ofit. and a Ikiil: wA\\ to tlie front door. W lien (ioNciaior Hancock\vas liviiiLi,- here at tlie beginning of the lleNohitionary War. thereueie no honses wheie the State llonse and the hnildings liere nextto Hancocks lionse stand; and that gromid was hi
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