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Famous colonial houses (1921)

Hollister, Paul M. (Paul Merrick), b. 1890, Preston, Ja. (James) · Philadelphia, David McKay company · leaf 137

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chatter when you come in, and you cannotsurprise them at it. But on a June night you may sit outside andwatch the moon rise through the tracery of an old wistaria on thesouth portico. Listen sharply: when a white parrokeet waddles infrom the blue shadows of the garden, and a voice is singing,… … O S3 S o «j J E Z .S « o --5 x -a a 4j ^ The Longfellow House ~^HE moonlight poet, a clever Frenchman called him, hav-JL ing little passion, but a calmness of attitude which approachesmajesty. In a single deft pass of verbal legerdemain he conjuresabout the venerable head of Longfellow all the cool…

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