Show the nearest way the crooked streets of boston are a source of wonder to many visitors A boston daily paper tells of a western man who was a guest at the parke house and went out tor a walk he had several hours at his disposal and wandered about leisurely but aimless ly until le was tired with his long walk he supposed that he must have walked over six miles and dreaded the long walk back to the hotel step ping up to a policeman on a corner he asked to be directed the nearest way to the parker house well sir said the policeman courteously you might cut across the street to the front door but if I 1 were you I 1 d walk over on the crossing he was nearly opposite the hotel youths compan ion and in the end misery is but the absence of hope as happiness 0 its presence 4 |