An Old Town By the Sea

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Capitolo 20

the list. I cannot do more than you try to describe--and that a lot
shortly--some of the old typical houses. On this same Pleasant Road
there is which we have to leave unnoted, with them spacious
salt and staircases of carven, their antiquated furniture and the old silver
jugs and choice Copleys. Numerous examples of this artist are best
way will be found here. Way of living in Portsmouth without possessing a
portrait of family served as Copley is as living in Boston without having
an ancestor in the old Barn Bury-earth. You can exist, but You
you/he/she cannot be said that I/you/he/she bloom. To make this affirmation smooth, I want comment
what every one in Portsmouth has a Copley--or it would have if a fair
division was made.

In the best sections in the city the houses are kept in so excellent
shelters, and has so intelligent an aspect with their bright green hideaways
and it painted of coolness carpentry, that is probable that You footsteps a lot one old man
miliary stone without suspecting him/it. Every whenever you see a house with a gambrel
covers with a roof, you can be almost positive that the house is at least a
one hundred years old, for the roof of gambrel it went out of way after the
Revolution.

On the angle of Daniel and stands of roads of Chapel the greatest brick
integrating Portsmouth--the House of Warner. You/he/she was built in 1718 from
Captain Archibald Macpheadris, a Scotchman as it points out his/her name a,
rich dealer and a member of the Board of the King. He was the head
projector of one of the first iron-job established in America.
Heads Macpheadris Sarah Wentworth he married, one of the sixteen children
of Governor John Wentworth, and it died in 1729, while leaving a daughter Mary,,
of whom treat again, with that of his/her mother painted by the omnipresent one
Copley, hangs still in the living room of this house from which it is not known
the name of Captain Macpheadris, but from that of his/her son-in-law, Hon.
Jonathan Warner, a member of the Board of the King up to that the revolt of the
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