TOBACCO LEAVES 



Street to Boylston, through Boylston to 

 Charles Street, to Cambridge, and over the 

 bridge over the Charles to Mount Auburn 

 on a sunny day! And all the hearse driv- 

 ers were so happy and contented looking! 

 But Mr. Milmore advised me to be a law- 

 yer, and was about to get me a position 

 in the office of Augustus Russ, the great 

 Boston advocate, as an office boy, when I 

 " lit out." I can see Mr. Milmore now, 

 lighting his Spanish cigarettes, and grace- 

 fully smoking them, as he thumbed a clay 

 model. He looked wonderfully like Ed- 

 win Booth; was, I should say, exactly 

 Mr. Booth's height and weight, with the 

 great Booth eyes, long, dark hair, Oriental 

 complexion, and Booth modesty and lov- 

 ableness. He has been dead these many 

 years, but his work lives, on Boston Com- 

 mon, in many Boston places, and the great 

 granite Sphinx in Mount Auburn Ceme- 

 tery is the work of his hands and such 

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