Identifier: imfrombostonscen01howe (find matches)
Title: I'm from Boston : scenes from the living past, illustrated by picture and story
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston
Publisher: Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd daughter to t - town in a small boat, all three were drowned. They were buriedat Copps Hill. Franklin, twelve years old at the time, and re-cently apprenticed to his brother James, a printer, seized the oc-casion to write a ballad, **The Lighthouse Tragedy, which,with another, he sold in broadsides on the Boston streets.T **This flattered my vanity, he wrote in his Autobiography^ **but my father discouraged me by ridiculing my performancesand telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. His earlybiographer, the inventive Weems, declared that later Franklin be-came so mortified with these ballads ** that he could not bear thesight of them, but constantly threw into the fire every copy thatfell in his way. Apparently none escaped, and the race of col-lectors has been cruelly thwarted. B i a»■♦-♦•■■»-»■•♦••♦-♦-»-»»^g, SS^^^^5i^53i*riit ♦-♦♦►••♦♦-♦-♦♦-♦►.♦-♦^ 4i iiii ♦
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Siii^^H §S5£^:±: ^-^^^^•^-^ ^^•^^^.4-4-^^^^^ S HEM DROWNE was a famous coppersmith in his day. Onepiece of his handiwork conspicuously survives in the weather-vane surmounting the belfry of Faneuil Hall. This building wasnot a *cradle of liberty, but a headquarters of trade, when PeterFaneuil built it in 1742. That emblem of nimbleness, the grass-hopper, had stood before as an emblem of trade, in the vane of theRoyal Exchange of London, from which the suggestion of theFaneuil Hall vane is said, in one version of its origin, to have beentaken. In another, the fact that a grasshopper was the bringer ofgood fortune to Shem Drowne as a boy is related. Deacon Drowne wrought this grasshopper with as much care asif it were to be scrutinized at close range. Once when it had tobe mended, a page of writing was found within it, addressed **Tomy Brethren and Fellow Grasshoppers, recording its erection byShem Drowne, May 25, 1742, its repair by its maker (**my oldmaster above), after it **imfrombostonscen01howe

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