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Excerpt from I'm From Boston: Scenes From the Living Past, Illustrated by Picture and Story
Deacon Drowne wrought this grasshopper with as much care as if it were to be scrutinized at close range. Once when it had to be mended, a page of writing was found within it, addressed To my Brethren and Fellow Grasshoppers, recording its erection by Shem Drowne, May 2 5, 1742, its repair by its maker (my old master after it fell in y year 1753 Nov. 18 early in y morning by a great earthquake, and ending as follows.
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