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The Only True Mother Goose Melodies by Anonymous
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for a generation, and indeed, would be understood to-day, if you
were speaking to Boston people more than fifty years old. The name
Cornhill is now applied to the Market Street of an earlier period.

Young readers should remember that Orange Street, Newbury street,
and Marlborough Street were names given in honour of the Prince
of Orange of the Puritan victory at Newbury, and of the Duke
of Marlborough. All of them show what were the Whig and Puritan
feelings of the people who gave them. All three of the names in
our time have been transferred from the old localities.

We are all greatly obliged to Mrs. Harriet Blackstone C. Butler for
the pains she has taken to rescue for popular use this interesting
memorial of the education of the fathers and mothers of New England.

[signed]Edward E. Hale





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