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...Massachusetts Indian and his times, save here and there a broken relic; his customs and habits are almost forgotten, and his lonely burial-ground and battle-field are generally unvisited and unknown. Even landmarks of the Revolution are by no means so frequent nowadays as formerly. The "Old Powder-House," in North Cambridge, is a most interesting example of those not yet destroyed...
...turned out afterwards, your uncle Eben Small Had charged that gun, five years before, with powder and with ball...
...small spyglass, occasionally a stampin' of his foot and a kickin' of his unoffendin' 'oss, vich had nothink for to do with his defeat! In the foreground you vill hobserve the Duky Vellinkton a valkin' amid the cannon-balls, him not carin' one straw for the smell of powder or the flying bullets, a wavin' of his 'at and a laffin' at the French soldiers, vich makes them pecooliarly morbid, - a big word, meaning sick at the stomach! SCENE NO. 5: The Gorilla, 'Ippopotamus, and Dodo, bein' the most wonderful specimens of beast, bird, and fish in the vorld...
...five hundred from the main band of destroyers made a raid upon the Boston and Albany Railroad, tearing up its track the entire distance between Boston and Springfield, each Sophomore putting one thousand rails in his vest-pocket; freight-trains were trampled under foot, station-houses were ground to powder, and the Owl train from New York, while running at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour, was seized by a gigantic student and hurled a distance of three miles, landing upside down in Miller's River, and terrible was the death which its passengers suffered...