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their own heated imaginatlons. Another
place of interest we visited there, was an old
church built in the year 1649, and is one of
the oldest, if not the oldest church in the
land. This church did not compare very
favorably with Notre Dame Cathedral at
Montreal. 1t was composed of a single
room about 14x1S feet, and yet it contained
a gallery, pulpit and other fixtures of a
church.
The house was also pointed out to us in
which the murder was committed, where, for
defending the accused, Daniel Webster won
such notroiety as a criminal lawyer. Salem
possesses one enterprising yankee, who has
gone all over the country and purchased all
the old furniture he could find, and now
offers it for sale at exorbitant prices. We
visited his sales-rooms and were shown many
a piece of furniture which in itself was con-
sidered beautiful and costly. Side-boards
from which some of the old colonial govern
ors and their friends had drank their toddy.
Chairs in which John Hancock had sat and
settees on which Washington reclined. 1t
added greatly to the value of an article if at
some time or another some distinguished
parsonage had occupied it. The time we
were to remain at Juniper quickly expired
and early one morning we babe the others
of our party goodbye, until we should meet
them again in Paw Paw. Until then we had
spent no time in Boston, although we had
been through the city two or three times in
going to other points. Everybody knows
what Boston is by reputation, and brief
mention of some of the places visited by us
is all the description we shall attempt
There are 80 many things which connect the
common, that we had a great desire to see
it, Imagine, if you will, a field of about 80
acres planted with elms thickly enough to
form magnificent shade, covered with
heavy sod of grass and laid out in every di-
rection into various shaped plats by pleasant
walks, and you have Boston common. On
little eminence near the center, stands the
soldiers monument, the finest we have ever
seen, and on the eastern side stands the
State House with its gilded dome. Just
beyond the commons with only narrow
street separating them, are the city gardens.
We had supposed that we had seen flowers,
plants and shrubbery before, but upon en-
tering these gardens, were very soon con-
WINGED that we had not. AS we walked
about this garden and through the common,
we could not help thinking that the rich of
Boston are not wholly unmindful of the COM
forts of the poor, in preparing this magnif-
cent park, free to all in the very heart of the
city. Here the poor mother could come
with her little ones and enjoy the cool shade,
the beautiful flowers and pleasant lawns,
whose circumstances in life prevented her,
perhaps, from going without the city in
search of such pleasure. From the gardens
we went to the museum of fine arts-we
didn't see every thing that was there. II
would take one two weeks to do that. In
the building are five rooms devoted to
Grecian statuary and three exclusively to
Roman, while any quantity of space is given
to paintings and statuary, and works of art
from all parts of the world. The old South
Church which, through the efforts of a few
patriotic ladies of Boston few years ago,
was saved from the doom of destruction,
attracted our attention. 1t was the first
time in my life that l ever paid quarter to
60 into church. They most always make
you pay before you can get out, when once
inside. Since the ladies have owned the old
church il has been fitted up as a sort of
museum, mostly of relics of the revolution
airy period munitions of war; old articles
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loaned, others donated, to make up the show.
Among the articles of clothing we noticed a
pair of white satin French slippers which,
with their tiny high heels placed in the
center of the sole, were so much more frenchy
than those worn by modern ladies, as to put
them way in the shade. The ladys name
who wore them, as we did not stand around
on the corners with pencil and note book
and jot down things we saw, has gone from
our memory, but we will venture to say that
she. leaned heavily on her lovers arm while
the ceremony was being performed, and as
soon as convenient afterward, asked to be
excused to change her Shoes and probably
could never be persuaded to be tortured by
them afterwards. We went to Bunker Hill,
climbed up the 295 stone steps of the monu-
ment, looked out of the narrow windows in
the sides at the top, and wrote our name in
the register kept by the good looking lady at