The Grass Plot

The Grass plot before the jail and prison lane on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded pheasonomies of these good people would have argued some awful business in hand. This rose bush has been kept alive in history, but whether it had merely survived or to the stern old wilderness so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, we shall not take upon us to determine. We could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of

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