T wharf, long one of the busiest fish wharves in the world, perhaps the busiest, is, as I write, on the point of being abandoned by the fish-dealers of Boston, who are to occupy a huge new pier at South Boston, built by the State at a cost of about a million dollars. Franklin Field is a great athletic field adjoining Franklin Park in the southern part of Boston.
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list of saints: these immortal names are carved in various places on the outer walls of the Public Library.
cranium: the head, or rather the skull.
herring gull: Larus argentatus, one of the largest and commonest of the harbor birds, and very much like the Western gull of Three-Arch Rocks. It is a pearl-gray and pure white creature with black on the wings. The immature birds are a brownish gray and look like an entirely different species for the first year.
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Boston, Baltimore, etc.: Make a study of your city parks and the spots of green and the open spaces where the wild things may be found. Go to the Public Library and ask for the books that treat of the wild life of your city: “Wild Birds in City Parks,” by Walter, will be such a book for Chicago; “Birds in the Bush,” by Torrey, and “Birds of the Boston Public Garden,” by Wright, for Boston.
Charles River Basin: the wide fresh-water part of Charles River just above the dam and near Beacon and Charles Streets.
Scup: another name is porgie, porgy, scuppaug.
Squid: (Ommastrephes illecebrosus), a cephalopod, or cuttlefish, used for bait along the Atlantic coast.
The “cuttle-bone” in canaries’ cages is taken from the genus Sepia.
Squeteague: pronounced skwe-tēg´; also called weakfish and sea-trout.
Scallops: are shellfish the large muscle of which is much prized for food.
These are only a few of the fish kinds brought in at T Wharf.
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Grand Banks: a submarine plateau in the Atlantic, eastward from Newfoundland; noted as a fishing-ground. Its depth is thirty to sixty fathoms.
the Georges: a smaller bank lying off Cape Cod.
“We’re Here”: the name of the schooner in Kipling’s “Captains Courageous.”
Quincy Market: an old well-known market in Boston.
King’s Chapel: on Tremont Street. It was begun in 1749 and is still used for worship. See “Roof and Meadow” for a fuller account of the sparrows.
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rim rock: the edging of rock around the flats and plains of the sage deserts of Oregon.
Boston Common: known to every child who has read the history of our country. The “Garden” is across Charles Street from the Common.
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