CHAPTER III. 



The Old Church and the Old Home, — The 

 Pretty Neponset, — Changes in a Boston 

 Suburb. — A Story of Webster. — Notes by 

 the Way. — The Pilgrims and Massasoit, 



It is not so easy to get out of Boston as it 

 was before Boston stretched itself over the 

 surrounding country, leaving the little penin- 

 sula on which it was founded, to serve mainly 

 for business purposes, while residences have 

 been built up on the newly acquired territory. 

 Not content with the absorption of Roxbury 

 and Dorchester, the city has brought the more 

 distant country into town by cutting down its 

 hills and transporting them into the Back Bay, 

 which has now become the home of fashion 

 and of aesthetic religion. 



Riding out over Washington Street, I call 

 to mind the time when it was "the Neck," I 

 remember when Lafayette entered the city 



52 



