Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-02-27
Tttt family Circle,
\ Big Boy in Boston.
BY NJ. V. B. KNOX.

for the Vermont children now ana Jueu III
the FREEMAN. But those that were chill
dren then are grown five and six feet tall
now, and sec that must write for others.
Boston has SO many things that the Yer
mont boys and girls would like to see and
hear about that if | should write of only n
part of them the editor would throw my
letter in the waste basket and not tire his
head in reading so much. One going up
and down these long streets wants to get
his glasses on if he is near-sighted; does
not want to be in hurry SO but that he
can look in all the store and shop windows,
and see the nice things all the way from
cum drops to piles of books, and rows of
overcoats. Sleds and skates hang in some
of the great windows-and such slcds
and such sknles The Vermont boys and
girls would do little but 60 on them day
after day if they had them-that is if they
are bit rs | was when boy. Horse
shoe Pond, on one side of my father old
farm, was Il grand place to skate, just such
pond as many l know Of in Vermont,
and on that pond spent many glad hours
but not on such smooth, polished skates
as these | see here, but on an old pair that
my older brother gave me when he got n
new pair.
Skates and sleds are not the only things
see here good for the children. Great
thick mutllers, overcoats, listers and
Plevnas; mittens red and mitens brown !;
caps to keep ones ears warm, thick socks
on purpose for cold weather; rubber boots
that would not let bit of damp into them
but simply cannot tell of all the things
of this kind | have seen, though | have
wished l was small boy again to wear
some of them.
If the Vermont children, these long
winter evenings when the ice is covered
with deep snow, and it is too cold to coast,
could get into the Public Library of Boston,
where there are two or three hundred
thousand books, they would, | have no
1orh+ ,,,.o ort all tbn, conId uso and elf
up late and get up early to read. Now it
dnos M, cost = cent ia oct anv hook Won
want and Won ron have two nf a time, O.
but the kinds of books One great build
;ro f,u Of tbop, ne,r Roston Common
one in East Boston, from where write
oro in C,mhridcn another in South
po.,or and in ohnr nlocos There arc
hoo,.s IF s,orios-tbosa nice ones for chill.
Jro,, NV 11,no Cbris,;,n Anderson those
hn, n,al,o tho bors want to IN oyv,v for
vondorG,, ov,o1i,ions Inv Jrles verno ,he
Frorebn.n md lots Of other story hooks
travels in ACrica anono the eIepbants
lions. and savaces; travels in the Arctic
rocons nmonr the ice-noes. seals and
Eskinos. in fine Pocifc and Indian Ocean
Ts,ards whero ,ro fonnd ,bo oddest kinds
IF lirds onec md mon Than thore ,ro
historios Of everv nort If the world. and
thousands nm thousands of honks that onv
ana would want to read if he had time
inst think of cords upon cords of books
,,,,;,irr 70 Ina ro,d NV orv ono who will he
to tbo ,rouble Of ooino to oct them
IF the Vermont bows were here thew
wonId bo interested in the fires that take
nI,co and fine wav thew mt them ont
When = fir. breaks ont anywhere some
ono rms to 4 box fastened AGAINST the side
IF somo buiIdino mills q wire that send,
an alarm to ,be central office of the Fire
Den,rtmont They know there from wbo,
how # came and thew know in what mar,