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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 528

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wind, on thespire of the hall tower. The grasshopper was made by a very eccentriccoppersmith of Boston, Deacon Sheme Drowne,in 1742. It was hammered by hand out of cop-per, and is about five and a half feet in length.Deacon Drowne liked to make odd weather-vanes, and his figures of roosters, Indian… … THE TOWER OF FANEUIL H.\LL, BOSTON. Deacon Drowne was so eccentric, for had it notbeen for his remembering the grasshopper, hemight have had to remain in a strange land. Walter K. Putney. IN FEBRUARY Oh, they say it s growing colder, every day, That the winters growing bolder, every day; Since the…

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