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kept it up quite long, and then he showed the older part of the company some engravings, while we juveniles played games with Miss Anna. Father came before tea. We went home about eleven.

" Thursday, May 75. This morning Mother went to Beverly, and Grandfather and Stanley went with her. She intends to return a week from to-morrow and in a few days take its back again to stay. After she was gone, we went to our books, and after our exercise studied till two or three o'clock, when we had dinner. In a little while, I took my books to Father and recited till about half past four, when Mr. Randall called for me to take a walk with him to Parker's Hill, Roxbury. Having obtained Father's consent, I posted off, and went to Mr. Randall's house, which, by the way, is 107 Harrison Avenue. Here he made me eat an orange, and put two or three oranges and five or six sticks of candy into my pocket ! He told me that they would not come amiss on the way, and I found that he was no false prophet. We walked out on the Neck, and up to Parker's Hill, where I had never been, though I did live two years in Roxbury. We kept ascend- ing by beautiful roads, until we stopped on the way and lay down on a bank. Mr. Randall took out his spy-glass, which he had brought, and we examined the adjacent country. The prospect was fine, but he said it would be much finer by and by. We continued our tour until we reached the summit, and here we were well rewarded for our pains. We had a capital view of Boston and its vicin- ity. Here there were some very pretty woods, small, but very thick. We did not stay long, but came back to the town itself about dusk. Mr. Randall stopped at the house of some acquaintances, ladies, who were delightful people. We left a little after — I do not exactly remember what

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