[Gutenberg 21895] • The Old Coast Road / From Boston to Plymouth

Excerpt from The Old Coast Road: From Boston to Plymouth

Whose side yard the State House was built and once, when preparations for an Official banquet were halted by shortage of milk, tra dition has it that he ordered his servants to hasten out on the Common and milk every cow there, regardless Of ownership. Tradition also tells us that the little boy Ralph Waldo Emerson tended his mother's cow here; and finally both traditions and existing law de clare that yonder one-story building opening upon Mount Vernon Street, and possessing an Oddly wide door, must forever keep that door Of sufficient width to let the cows pass through to the Common.