In Colonial Days e-bog
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Excerpt: "e;One afternoon, last summer, while walking along Washington Street, my eye was attracted by a signboard protruding over a narrow archway nearly opposite the Old South Church. The sign represented the front of a stately edifice, which was designated as the "e;Old Province House, kept by Thomas Waite."e; I was glad to be thus reminded of a purpose, long entertained, of visi...
E-bog
25,00 DKK
Forlag
Otbebookpublishing
Udgivet
3 juli 2021
Genrer
1KB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9783985311040
Excerpt: "e;One afternoon, last summer, while walking along Washington Street, my eye was attracted by a signboard protruding over a narrow archway nearly opposite the Old South Church. The sign represented the front of a stately edifice, which was designated as the "e;Old Province House, kept by Thomas Waite."e; I was glad to be thus reminded of a purpose, long entertained, of visiting and rambling over the mansion of the old royal governors of Massachusetts; and entering the arched passage, which penetrated through the middle of a brick row of shops, a few steps transported me from the busy heart of modern Boston into a small and secluded courtyard. One side of this space was occupied by the square front of the Province House, three stories high, and surmounted by a cupola, on the top of which a gilded Indian was discernible with his bow bent and his arrow on the string, as if aiming at the weathercock on the spire of the Old South. The figure has kept this attitude for seventy years or more, ever since good Deacon Drowne, a cunning carver of wood, first stationed him on his long sentinel's watch over the city."e;