Word: hill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...field and hill and grove I call...
What is known as the "Old Powder-House" stands on a slight eminence known as "Quarry Hill," lying directly in the path of one walking - short cut - from Tufts College to Old Cambridge. First a windmill, then a powder-magazine, it has felt the shock of revolution, and seen almost two centuries with their generations pass away. As we stand near its crumbling walls, our thoughts wander back more than a century ago, to the days of the good Queen Anne and the Georges, when the long arms of its fan turned merrily in the wind, and the early farmers...
...Pastolus comes from Seminary Hill, Montpelier, Vt., and informs us that "who will be our next President is a question of the greatest moment." We find valuable information concerning some of the Presidential candidates, and we learn that "the time for the Grand Centennial Exposition is drawing near." Finally, this humble statement: "If you wish for facts we would refer you to future numbers of the Pastolus." But much as we desire "facts," we must decline to exchange with the oracle of Seminary Hill...
...goodies" and "pocos," who dwelt in the town itself, and a race of fierce savages, called "Port peelers," who infested a high mountain near the place called "Mt. Auburn," whence they frequently descended, and bearing away every one whom they met, buried them alive on the slopes of the hill. Query: Was "port" an abbreviation of porto? The men had also a feud with a certain Yale, of which nothing more is known. Men are often spoken of as "deading"; may they not have been killed in these contests...
...places Putnam's Hill was the most interesting. Here was the spot where Putnam galloped down the church steps at full speed, shaking his fist at the British and receiving, in exchange of compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before which the Americans awaited the charge of the British," must have stood. They waited until the British got unpleasantly near, when Putnam and his men, concluding that "discretion was the better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode...