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เนื้อหาย่อ : Water Baby you didn't work, you might not eat. The govern- ment of the Colony of Massachusetts frowned on lazy people, and you could be whipped on your bare back if you did not choose to work. Boston wasn't a particularly pretty or casy- going place, at that time, but it was a wonderful place to be a boy. The town was built around the harbor and the wharf, where sailing ships put in from England, bringing news and goods from the great world to the colonists. When a ship was sighted, the people swarmed onto the wharf and shouted in their excitement. Narrow, winding streets, full of holes and bumps, climbed the low hills above the harbor. On each side of the strects rose square, unpainted houses, gray from the wind and rain and sun. Be- yond, the great forests rolled away, nobody knew how far. But for a boy, there were trees to climb, fish to catch, boats to sail, and canoes to paddle. There were the Commons, where Bostonians drove their cows to pasture, the marshes, the ponds, the river,