As for the two children, their eyes were
wide open, and their mouths, and they looked their
wonder.
Frederick then proposed that two of their number
should volunteer to open a rival establishment at the
polling-booth at the corner of Gates Street and Burgoyne
Street, and that the company should on the next day
invite guests enough to make another table of twelve. He
proposed that the same course should be taken at the
corner of Shapleigh and Bowditch Streets, and yet again
at the booth which is at the corner of Curtis Avenue and
Quincy Street. And he said that, as time would press
upon them, they had better arrange to carry a part at
least of the stores to these places that evening. To
this there was a general assent. The company sat down to
a hasty tea, administered much as the Israelites took
their last meal in Egypt; for every man had on his long
frieze coat and his heavy boots, and they were eager for
the active work of Thanksgiving. For each the
stewards packed two turkeys in a basket, filled in
as far as they could with other stores, and Frederick
headed his procession.
It was then that he was to learn, for the first time,
that he was not the only person in Boston.
It was then that he found out that the revelation
made to one man is frequently made to many.
He found out that he was as wise as the next fellow,
but was no wiser; was as good as the next fellow, but was
no better; and that, in short, he had no special patent
upon his own undertaking,
The little procession soon arrived at the corner of
Shapleigh and Bowditch Streets.
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