I.
HOWE'S MASQUERADE.
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One afternoon, last summer,
while walking along Washington
Street, my eye was attracted by a sign-*board
protruding over a narrow archway
nearly opposite the Old South Church.
The sign represented the front of a
stately edifice, which was designated as
the "Old Province House, kept by
Thomas Waite." I was glad to be thus
reminded of a purpose, long entertained,
of visiting and rambling over the mansion
of the old royal governors of Massachusetts;
and entering the arched passage,
which penetrated through the middle of
a brick row of shops, a few steps transported
me from the busy heart of modern
Boston into a small and secluded
court-yard. One side of this space was occupied by the square
front of the Province House, three stories high, and surmounted
by a cupola, on the top of which a gilded Indian was discernible
