Nos jeunes gens [Série] . à ! Nous nous trouvons dans un scintillement dans la rue. Il est filledwith immeubles modernes, une seule exception, et c'est, l'ancienne State-House ;et maintenant je veux que vous revenir avec moi une centaine d'années, à l'imagina-tion, et, cela fait, voyons-nous à propos de nous. Nous voyons la mer qui coule des deux côtés du quai long en ce qui concerne les chants de mer et de Rangs Kilby, et la rue de l'beauprés-lookingvessels queer qui surplombe les rues. Nous voyons les hommes et les garçons avec uglycocked - chapeaux comme Ben Franklins statue est niché sous son bras -bloqué sur leurs têtes ; gilets re
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Our young folks [serial] . to ! we find ourselves in a twinkling in State Street. It is filledwith modern buildings, one only excepted, and that is, the Old State-House ;and now I want you to go back with me a hundred years or so, in imagina-tion, and, having done so, let us look about us. We see the sea flowing up on both sides of Long Wharf as far as Mer-chants Row and Kilby Streets, and the bowsprits of the queer-lookingvessels projecting over those streets. We see men and boys with uglycocked hats — such as Ben Franklins statue has tucked under its arm —stuck on their heads ; waistcoats reaching to the hips, knee-breeches, tight-fitting stockings, and high shoes with buckles of silver or plated metal,while from underneath their hats projects either a stiff queue, curled uplike a pigs tail, or a knot of hair gathered loosely by a ribbon. But the streets, how narrow and crooked! Change Avenue has turnedinto Pierces Alley, and Congress Street into Leveretts Lane ; wharves run 400 Glimpses of Boston. [July,. State Street, and Old State-House. into the harbor from Kilby Street, and a tavern with three bunches of grapesfor a sign is on the corner where the New England Bank ought to be.Exchange Street has become Royal Exchange Lane, and Devonshire, bysome hocus pocus, is transformed into Pudding Lane ; while Wilsons Laneis now Crooked by name as well as nature. What queer names the tavernshave ! We have passed the Admiral Vernon and the Crown Coffee-House, then the Bunch of Grapes, the Royal Exchange, corner OfExchange Street, British Coffee-House, and the Lighthouse, oppositethe Town Hall. Looking up, we see over where Joys Building ought to be,a wooden meeting-house with an apology for a steeple, and now we stopto take breath. We are more and more bewildered, for on the numerous taverns we seethe arms of Great Britain, and on the corner of Exchange Street is pacinga sentinel before his Majestys Custom-House. Over opposite, in frontof where Braziers Building now i