" A crooked, fretful 

 little stream." 



them from the salt into 

 fresh -svatei', and what 

 drives these particuhir 

 herring up Herring Rnn 

 instead of up some othei- 

 stream ? Will some one 

 please explain? 



Herring Run is the nat- 

 ural outlet of Whitman's 

 Pond. It runs down 

 through AVey mouth about 

 three fourths of a mile to 

 Weymouth Back River, 

 thence to the bay and 

 on to the sea. It is a 

 crooked, fretful little 

 streajn, not over twenty 

 feet wide at the most, 

 very stony and very shal- 

 low. 



About a hundred years 

 ago, as near as the oldest 

 inhabitants can remem- 

 ber, a few men of Wey- 

 mouth went down to 

 Taunton with theii" ox- 

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