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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
ight [go] and she said we might if we would not go beyond the common fence. We went and when we got there we found people in abundance. As we were going along, Thornton [Ware] caught up with us having in each hand one of his father's firebuckets. He seemed to be quite at home there. There were a great many blankets, &c., hangiey's Cecelia. To his mother he thus recounted his doings:— I will now tell you of our May party. We met on the 30th of April at 5 A. M. just down by Thornton's to choose a queen ... Afterwards we went to Mount Auburn and walked and played until 10 o'clock when we came home. ... I forgot to say that as [we] were going the rest of us. I had a splendid time on the fourth of July. I went into Boston . . . for the sake of seeing the fireworks in the evening. I walked in with Thornton, at about 10 A. M. . . . The children were delighted to see Tommy, as they both called me. I played me hidey with Lizzy for ever so long. We saw several compani