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-license: mit
+annotations_creators:
+- expert-generated
+language_creators:
+- expert-generated
+language:
+- en
+license:
+- apache-2.0
+multilinguality:
+- monolingual
+size_categories:
+- 10K<n<100K
+source_datasets:
+- original
+task_categories:
+- text-generation
+task_ids:
+- language-modeling
+paperswithcode_id: pg-19
+pretty_name: PG-19
+dataset_info:
+  features:
+  - name: short_book_title
+    dtype: string
+  - name: publication_date
+    dtype: int32
+  - name: url
+    dtype: string
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  splits:
+  - name: train
+    num_bytes: 11453688452
+    num_examples: 28602
+  - name: validation
+    num_bytes: 17402295
+    num_examples: 50
+  - name: test
+    num_bytes: 40482852
+    num_examples: 100
+  download_size: 11740397875
+  dataset_size: 11511573599
 ---
+
+# Dataset Card for "pg19"
+
+## Table of Contents
+- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
+  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
+  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
+  - [Languages](#languages)
+- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
+  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
+  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
+  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
+- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
+  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
+  - [Source Data](#source-data)
+  - [Annotations](#annotations)
+  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
+- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
+  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
+  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
+  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
+- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
+  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
+  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
+  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
+  - [Contributions](#contributions)
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/deepmind/pg19](https://github.com/deepmind/pg19)
+- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+- **Paper:** [Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05507)
+- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 11.74 GB
+- **Size of the generated dataset:** 11.51 GB
+- **Total amount of disk used:** 23.25 GB
+
+### Dataset Summary
+
+This repository contains the PG-19 language modeling benchmark.
+It includes a set of books extracted from the Project Gutenberg books library, that were published before 1919.
+It also contains metadata of book titles and publication dates.
+
+PG-19 is over double the size of the Billion Word benchmark and contains documents that are 20X longer, on average, than the WikiText long-range language modelling benchmark.
+Books are partitioned into a train, validation, and test set. Book metadata is stored in metadata.csv which contains (book_id, short_book_title, publication_date).
+
+Unlike prior benchmarks, we do not constrain the vocabulary size --- i.e. mapping rare words to an UNK token --- but instead release the data as an open-vocabulary benchmark. The only processing of the text that has been applied is the removal of boilerplate license text, and the mapping of offensive discriminatory words as specified by Ofcom to placeholder tokens. Users are free to model the data at the character-level, subword-level, or via any mechanism that can model an arbitrary string of text.
+To compare models we propose to continue measuring the word-level perplexity, by calculating the total likelihood of the dataset (via any chosen subword vocabulary or character-based scheme) divided by the number of tokens --- specified below in the dataset statistics table.
+One could use this dataset for benchmarking long-range language models, or use it to pre-train for other natural language processing tasks which require long-range reasoning, such as LAMBADA or NarrativeQA. We would not recommend using this dataset to train a general-purpose language model, e.g. for applications to a production-system dialogue agent, due to the dated linguistic style of old texts and the inherent biases present in historical writing.
+
+### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Languages
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+### Data Instances
+
+#### default
+
+- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 11.74 GB
+- **Size of the generated dataset:** 11.51 GB
+- **Total amount of disk used:** 23.25 GB
+
+An example of 'train' looks as follows.
+```
+This example was too long and was cropped:
+
+{
+    "publication_date": 1907,
+    "short_book_title": "La Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio",
+    "text": "\"\\n\\n\\n\\nProduced by Ted Garvin, Dave Morgan and PG Distributed Proofreaders\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLA FIAMMETTA\\n\\nBY\\n\\nGIOVANNI BOCCACCIO\\n...",
+    "url": "http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10006"
+}
+```
+
+### Data Fields
+
+The data fields are the same among all splits.
+
+#### default
+- `short_book_title`: a `string` feature.
+- `publication_date`: a `int32` feature.
+- `url`: a `string` feature.
+- `text`: a `string` feature.
+
+### Data Splits
+
+| name  |train|validation|test|
+|-------|----:|---------:|---:|
+|default|28602|        50| 100|
+
+## Dataset Creation
+
+### Curation Rationale
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Source Data
+
+#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+#### Who are the source language producers?
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Annotations
+
+#### Annotation process
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+#### Who are the annotators?
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Personal and Sensitive Information
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+## Considerations for Using the Data
+
+### Social Impact of Dataset
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Discussion of Biases
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Other Known Limitations
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+## Additional Information
+
+### Dataset Curators
+
+[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
+
+### Licensing Information
+
+The dataset is licensed under [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html).
+
+### Citation Information
+
+```
+@article{raecompressive2019,
+  author = {Rae, Jack W and Potapenko, Anna and Jayakumar, Siddhant M and
+            Hillier, Chloe and Lillicrap, Timothy P},
+  title = {Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling},
+  journal = {arXiv preprint},
+  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05507},
+  year = {2019},
+}
+```
+
+
+### Contributions
+
+Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@lucidrains](https://github.com/lucidrains), [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq) for adding this dataset.

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+# PG-19 Language Modelling Benchmark
+This repository contains the PG-19 language modeling benchmark. It includes a
+set of books extracted rom the Project Gutenberg books library [1], that were
+published before 1919. It also contains metadata of book titles and publication
+dates.
+
+<b><a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/deepmind-gutenberg">Full dataset download link</a></b>
+
+PG-19 is over double the size of the Billion Word benchmark [2] and contains
+documents that are 20X longer, on average, than the WikiText long-range language
+modelling benchmark [3].
+
+Books are partitioned into a `train`, `validation`, and `test` set. Book
+metadata is stored in `metadata.csv` which contains
+`(book_id, short_book_title, publication_date)`.
+
+Unlike prior benchmarks, we do not constrain the vocabulary size ---
+i.e. mapping rare words to an UNK token --- but instead release the data as an
+open-vocabulary benchmark. The only processing of the text that has been applied
+is the removal of boilerplate license text, and the mapping of offensive
+discriminatory words as specified by Ofcom [4] to placeholder <DW> tokens. Users
+are free to model the data at the character-level, subword-level, or via any
+mechanism that can model an arbitrary string of text.
+
+To compare models we propose to continue measuring the word-level perplexity,
+by calculating the total likelihood of the dataset (via any chosen subword
+vocabulary or character-based scheme) divided by the number of tokens ---
+specified below in the dataset statistics table.
+
+One could use this dataset for benchmarking long-range language models, or
+use it to pre-train for other natural language processing tasks which require
+long-range reasoning, such as LAMBADA [5] or NarrativeQA [6]. We would not
+recommend using this dataset to train a general-purpose language model, e.g.
+for applications to a production-system dialogue agent, due to the dated
+linguistic style of old texts and the inherent biases present in historical
+writing.
+
+### Dataset Statistics
+
+<table >
+    <tbody>
+        <tr>
+            <td> </td>
+            <td> Train </td>
+            <td> Validation </td>
+            <td> Test </td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+            <td> Books </td>
+            <td> 28,602 </td>
+            <td> 50 </td>
+            <td> 100 </td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+            <td>Num. Tokens </td>
+            <td> 1,973,136,207 </td>
+            <td> 3,007,061 </td>
+            <td> 6,966,499 </td>
+        </tr>
+    </tbody>
+</table>
+
+### Bibtex
+
+```
+@article{raecompressive2019,
+author = {Rae, Jack W and Potapenko, Anna and Jayakumar, Siddhant M and
+          Hillier, Chloe and Lillicrap, Timothy P},
+title = {Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling},
+journal = {arXiv preprint},
+url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05507},
+year = {2019},
+}
+```
+
+### Dataset Metadata
+The following table is necessary for this dataset to be indexed by search
+engines such as <a href="https://g.co/datasetsearch">Google Dataset Search</a>.
+<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Dataset">
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <th>property</th>
+    <th>value</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>name</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="name">The PG-19 Language Modeling Benchmark</code></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>alternateName</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="alternateName">PG-19</code></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>url</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="url">https://github.com/deepmind/pg19</code></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>sameAs</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="sameAs">https://github.com/deepmind/pg19</code></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>description</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="description">This repository contains the PG-19 dataset.
+    It includes a set of books extracted from the Project Gutenberg
+    books project (https://www.gutenberg.org), that were published before
+    1919. It also contains metadata of book titles and publication dates.</code></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>provider</td>
+    <td>
+      <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemprop="provider">
+        <table>
+          <tr>
+            <th>property</th>
+            <th>value</th>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>name</td>
+            <td><code itemprop="name">DeepMind</code></td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>sameAs</td>
+            <td><code itemprop="sameAs">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind</code></td>
+          </tr>
+        </table>
+      </div>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>license</td>
+    <td>
+      <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemprop="license">
+        <table>
+          <tr>
+            <th>property</th>
+            <th>value</th>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>name</td>
+            <td><code itemprop="name">Apache License, Version 2.0</code></td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>url</td>
+            <td><code itemprop="url">https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html</code></td>
+          </tr>
+        </table>
+      </div>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>citation</td>
+    <td><code itemprop="citation">https://identifiers.org/arxiv:1911.05507</code></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+### Contact
+
+If you have any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:jwrae@google.com">Jack Rae</a>.
+
+### References
+
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>[1] <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/">https://www.gutenberg.org</a></li>
+<li>[2] Chelba et al. "One Billion Word Benchmark for Measuring Progress in Statistical Language Modeling" (2013)</li>
+<li>[3] Merity et al. "Pointer Sentinel Mixture Models" (2016)</li>
+<li>[4] <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/91625/OfcomQRG-AOC.pdf">Ofcom offensive language guide</a></li>
+<li>[5] Paperno et al. "The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context" (2016)</li>
+<li>[6] Kočiský et al. "The narrativeqa reading comprehension challenge" (2018)</li>
+</ul>
+
+

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+Produced by David Widger
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+ODD CRAFT
+
+By W.W. Jacobs
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+BILL'S LAPSE
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+name of Bill Burton, a ship-mate of Ginger Dick's.  For that matter 'e
+was a shipmate o' Peter Russet's and old Sam Small's too.  Not over and
+above tall; just about my height, his arms was like another man's legs
+for size, and 'is chest and his back and shoulders might ha' been made
+for a giant.  And with all that he'd got a soft blue eye like a gal's
+(blue's my favourite colour for gals' eyes), and a nice, soft, curly
+brown beard.  He was an A.B., too, and that showed 'ow good-natured he
+was, to pick up with firemen.
+
+He got so fond of 'em that when they was all paid off from the _Ocean
+King_ he asked to be allowed to join them in taking a room ashore.  It
+pleased every-body, four coming cheaper than three, and Bill being that
+good-tempered that 'e'd put up with anything, and when any of the three
+quarrelled he used to act the part of peacemaker.
+
+[Illustration: "When any of the three quarrelled he used to act the part
+of peacemaker."]
+
+The only thing about 'im that they didn't like was that 'e was a
+teetotaler.  He'd go into public-'ouses with 'em, but he wouldn't drink;
+leastways, that is to say, he wouldn't drink beer, and Ginger used to say
+that it made 'im feel uncomfortable to see Bill put away a bottle o'
+lemonade every time they 'ad a drink.  One night arter 'e had 'ad
+seventeen bottles he could 'ardly got home, and Peter Russet, who knew a
+lot about pills and such-like, pointed out to 'im 'ow bad it was for his
+constitushon.  He proved that the lemonade would eat away the coats o'
+Bill's stomach, and that if 'e kept on 'e might drop down dead at any
+moment.
+
+That frightened Bill a bit, and the next night, instead of 'aving
+lemonade, 'e had five bottles o' stone ginger-beer, six of different
+kinds of teetotal beer, three of soda-water, and two cups of coffee.  I'm
+not counting the drink he 'ad at the chemist's shop arterward, because he
+took that as medicine, but he was so queer in 'is inside next morning
+that 'e began to be afraid he'd 'ave to give up drink altogether.
+
+He went without the next night, but 'e was such a generous man that 'e
+would pay every fourth time, and there was no pleasure to the other chaps
+to see 'im pay and 'ave nothing out of it.  It spoilt their evening, and
+owing to 'aving only about 'arf wot they was accustomed to they all got
+up very disagreeable next morning.
+
+"Why not take just a little beer, Bill?" asks Ginger.
+
+Bill 'ung his 'ead and looked a bit silly.  "I'd rather not, mate," he
+ses, at last.  "I've been teetotal for eleven months now."
+
+"Think of your 'ealth, Bill," ses Peter Russet; "your 'ealth is more
+important than the pledge.  Wot made you take it?"
+
+Bill coughed.  "I 'ad reasons," he ses, slowly.  "A mate o' mine wished
+me to."
+
+"He ought to ha' known better," ses Sam.  "He 'ad 'is reasons," ses Bill.
+
+"Well, all I can say is, Bill," ses Ginger, "all I can say is, it's very
+disobligin' of you."
+
+"Disobligin'?" ses Bill, with a start; "don't say that, mate."
+
+"I must say it," ses Ginger, speaking very firm.
+
+"You needn't take a lot, Bill," ses Sam; "nobody wants you to do that.
+Just drink in moderation, same as wot we do."
+
+"It gets into my 'ead," ses Bill, at last.
+
+"Well, and wot of it?" ses Ginger; "it gets into everybody's 'ead
+occasionally.  Why, one night old Sam 'ere went up behind a policeman and
+tickled 'im under the arms; didn't you, Sam?"
+
+"I did nothing o' the kind," ses Sam, firing up.
+
+"Well, you was fined ten bob for it next morning, that's all I know," ses
+Ginger.
+
+"I was fined ten bob for punching 'im," ses old Sam, very wild.  "I never
+tickled a policeman in my life.  I never thought o' such a thing.  I'd no
+more tickle a policeman than I'd fly.  Anybody that ses I did is a liar.
+Why should I?  Where does the sense come in?  Wot should I want to do it
+for?"
+
+"All right, Sam," ses Ginger, sticking 'is fingers in 'is ears, "you
+didn't, then."
+
+"No, I didn't," ses Sam, "and don't you forget it.  This ain't the fust
+time you've told that lie about me.  I can take a joke with any man; but
+anybody that goes and ses I tickled--"
+
+"All right," ses Ginger and Peter Russet together.  "You'll 'ave tickled
+policeman on the brain if you ain't careful, Sam," ses Peter.
+
+Old Sam sat down growling, and Ginger Dick turned to Bill agin.  "It gets
+into everybody's 'ead at times," he ses, "and where's the 'arm?  It's wot
+it was meant for."
+
+Bill shook his 'ead, but when Ginger called 'im disobligin' agin he gave
+way and he broke the pledge that very evening with a pint o' six 'arf.
+
+Ginger was surprised to see the way 'e took his liquor.  Arter three or
+four pints he'd expected to see 'im turn a bit silly, or sing, or do
+something o' the kind, but Bill kept on as if 'e was drinking water.
+
+"Think of the 'armless pleasure you've been losing all these months,
+Bill," ses Ginger, smiling at him.
+
+Bill said it wouldn't bear thinking of, and, the next place they came to
+he said some rather 'ard things of the man who'd persuaded 'im to take
+the pledge.  He 'ad two or three more there, and then they began to see
+that it was beginning to have an effect on 'im.  The first one that
+noticed it was Ginger Dick.  Bill 'ad just lit 'is pipe, and as he threw
+the match down he ses: "I don't like these 'ere safety matches," he ses.
+
+"Don't you, Bill?" ses Ginger.  "I do, rather."
+
+"Oh, you do, do you?"  ses Bill, turning on 'im like lightning; "well,
+take that for contradictin'," he ses, an' he gave Ginger a smack that
+nearly knocked his 'ead off.
+
+It was so sudden that old Sam and Peter put their beer down and stared at
+each other as if they couldn't believe their eyes.  Then they stooped
+down and helped pore Ginger on to 'is legs agin and began to brush 'im
+down.
+
+"Never mind about 'im, mates," ses Bill, looking at Ginger very wicked.
+"P'r'aps he won't be so ready to give me 'is lip next time.  Let's come
+to another pub and enjoy ourselves."
+
+Sam and Peter followed 'im out like lambs, 'ardly daring to look over
+their shoulder at Ginger, who was staggering arter them some distance
+behind a 'olding a handerchief to 'is face.
+
+"It's your turn to pay, Sam," ses Bill, when they'd got inside the next
+place.  "Wot's it to be?  Give it a name."
+
+"Three 'arf pints o' four ale, miss," ses Sam, not because 'e was mean,
+but because it wasn't 'is turn.  "Three wot?" ses Bill, turning on 'im.
+
+"Three pots o' six ale, miss," ses Sam, in a hurry.
+
+"That wasn't wot you said afore," ses Bill.  "Take that," he ses, giving
+pore old Sam a wipe in the mouth and knocking 'im over a stool; "take
+that for your sauce."
+
+Peter Russet stood staring at Sam and wondering wot Bill ud be like when
+he'd 'ad a little more.  Sam picked hisself up arter a time and went
+outside to talk to Ginger about it, and then Bill put 'is arm round
+Peter's neck and began to cry a bit and say 'e was the only pal he'd got
+left in the world.  It was very awkward for Peter, and more awkward still
+when the barman came up and told 'im to take Bill outside.
+
+"Go on," he ses, "out with 'im."
+
+"He's all right," ses Peter, trembling; "we's the truest-'arted gentleman
+in London.  Ain't you, Bill?"
+
+Bill said he was, and 'e asked the barman to go and hide 'is face because
+it reminded 'im of a little dog 'e had 'ad once wot 'ad died.
+
+"You get outside afore you're hurt," ses the bar-man.
+
+Bill punched at 'im over the bar, and not being able to reach 'im threw
+Peter's pot o' beer at 'im.  There was a fearful to-do then, and the
+landlord jumped over the bar and stood in the doorway, whistling for the
+police.  Bill struck out right and left, and the men in the bar went down
+like skittles, Peter among them.  Then they got outside, and Bill, arter
+giving the landlord a thump in the back wot nearly made him swallow the
+whistle, jumped into a cab and pulled Peter Russet in arter 'im.
+
+[Illustration: "Bill jumped into a cab and pulled Peter Russet in arter
+'im."]
+
+"I'll talk to you by-and-by," he ses, as the cab drove off at a gallop;
+"there ain't room in this cab.  You wait, my lad, that's all.  You just
+wait till we get out, and I'll knock you silly."
+
+"Wot for, Bill?"  ses Peter, staring.
+
+"Don't you talk to me," roars Bill.  "If I choose to knock you about
+that's my business, ain't it?  Besides, you know very well."
+
+He wouldn't let Peter say another word, but coming to a quiet place near
+the docks he stopped the cab and pulling 'im out gave 'im such a dressing
+down that Peter thought 'is last hour 'ad arrived.  He let 'im go at
+last, and after first making him pay the cab-man took 'im along till they
+came to a public-'ouse and made 'im pay for drinks.
+
+They stayed there till nearly eleven o'clock, and then Bill set off home
+'olding the unfortunit Peter by the scruff o' the neck, and wondering out
+loud whether 'e ought to pay 'im a bit more or not.  Afore 'e could make
+up 'is mind, however, he turned sleepy, and, throwing 'imself down on the
+bed which was meant for the two of 'em, fell into a peaceful sleep.
+
+Sam and Ginger Dick came in a little while arterward, both badly marked
+where Bill 'ad hit them, and sat talking to Peter in whispers as to wot
+was to be done.  Ginger, who 'ad plenty of pluck, was for them all to set
+on to 'im, but Sam wouldn't 'ear of it, and as for Peter he was so sore
+he could 'ardly move.
+
+They all turned in to the other bed at last, 'arf afraid to move for fear
+of disturbing Bill, and when they woke up in the morning and see 'im
+sitting up in 'is bed they lay as still as mice.
+
+"Why, Ginger, old chap," ses Bill, with a 'earty smile, "wot are you all
+three in one bed for?"  "We was a bit cold," ses Ginger.
+
+"Cold?"  ses Bill.  "Wot, this weather?  We 'ad a bit of a spree last
+night, old man, didn't we?  My throat's as dry as a cinder."
+
+"It ain't my idea of a spree," ses Ginger, sitting up and looking at 'im.
+
+"Good 'eavens, Ginger!" ses Bill, starting back, "wotever 'ave you been
+a-doing to your face?  Have you been tumbling off of a 'bus?"
+
+Ginger couldn't answer; and Sam Small and Peter sat up in bed alongside
+of 'im, and Bill, getting as far back on 'is bed as he could, sat staring
+at their pore faces as if 'e was having a 'orrible dream.
+
+"And there's Sam," he ses.  "Where ever did you get that mouth, Sam?"
+
+"Same place as Ginger got 'is eye and pore Peter got 'is face," ses Sam,
+grinding his teeth.
+
+"You don't mean to tell me," ses Bill, in a sad voice--"you don't mean to
+tell me that I did it?"
+
+"You know well enough," ses Ginger.
+
+Bill looked at 'em, and 'is face got as long as a yard measure.
+
+"I'd 'oped I'd growed out of it, mates," he ses, at last, "but drink
+always takes me like that.  I can't keep a pal."
+
+"You surprise me," ses Ginger, sarcastic-like.  "Don't talk like that,
+Ginger," ses Bill, 'arf crying.
+
+"It ain't my fault; it's my weakness.  Wot did I do it for?"
+
+"I don't know," ses Ginger, "but you won't get the chance of doing it
+agin, I'll tell you that much."
+
+"I daresay I shall be better to-night, Ginger," ses Bill, very humble;
+"it don't always take me that way.
+
+"Well, we don't want you with us any more," ses old Sam, 'olding his 'ead
+very high.
+
+"You'll 'ave to go and get your beer by yourself, Bill," ses Peter
+Russet, feeling 'is bruises with the tips of 'is fingers.
+
+"But then I should be worse," ses Bill.  "I want cheerful company when
+I'm like that.  I should very likely come 'ome and 'arf kill you all in
+your beds.  You don't 'arf know what I'm like.  Last night was nothing,
+else I should 'ave remembered it."
+
+"Cheerful company?"  ses old Sam.  'Ow do you think company's going to be
+cheerful when you're carrying on like that, Bill?  Why don't you go away
+and leave us alone?"
+
+"Because I've got a 'art," ses Bill.  "I can't chuck up pals in that
+free-and-easy way.  Once I take a liking to anybody I'd do anything for
+'em, and I've never met three chaps I like better than wot I do you.
+Three nicer, straight-forrad, free-'anded mates I've never met afore."
+
+"Why not take the pledge agin, Bill?"  ses Peter Russet.
+
+"No, mate," ses Bill, with a kind smile; "it's just a weakness, and I
+must try and grow out of it.  I'll tie a bit o' string round my little
+finger to-night as a re-minder."
+
+He got out of bed and began to wash 'is face, and Ginger Dick, who was
+doing a bit o' thinking, gave a whisper to Sam and Peter Russet.
+
+"All right, Bill, old man," he ses, getting out of bed and beginning to
+put his clothes on; "but first of all we'll try and find out 'ow the
+landlord is."
+
+"Landlord?" ses Bill, puffing and blowing in the basin.  "Wot landlord?"
+
+"Why, the one you bashed," ses Ginger, with a wink at the other two.  "He
+'adn't got 'is senses back when me and Sam came away."
+
+Bill gave a groan and sat on the bed while 'e dried himself, and Ginger
+told 'im 'ow he 'ad bent a quart pot on the landlord's 'ead, and 'ow the
+landlord 'ad been carried upstairs and the doctor sent for.  He began to
+tremble all over, and when Ginger said he'd go out and see 'ow the land
+lay 'e could 'ardly thank 'im enough.
+
+He stayed in the bedroom all day, with the blinds down, and wouldn't eat
+anything, and when Ginger looked in about eight o'clock to find out
+whether he 'ad gone, he found 'im sitting on the bed clean shaved, and
+'is face cut about all over where the razor 'ad slipped.
+
+Ginger was gone about two hours, and when 'e came back he looked so
+solemn that old Sam asked 'im whether he 'ad seen a ghost.  Ginger didn't
+answer 'im; he set down on the side o' the bed and sat thinking.
+
+"I s'pose--I s'pose it's nice and fresh in the streets this morning?"
+ses Bill, at last, in a trembling voice.
+
+Ginger started and looked at 'im.  "I didn't notice, mate," he ses.  Then
+'e got up and patted Bill on the back, very gentle, and sat down again.
+
+[Illustration: "Patted Bill on the back, very gentle."]
+
+"Anything wrong, Ginger?"  asks Peter Russet, staring at 'im.
+
+"It's that landlord," ses Ginger; "there's straw down in the road
+outside, and they say that he's dying.  Pore old Bill don't know 'is own
+strength.  The best thing you can do, old pal, is to go as far away as
+you can, at once."
+
+"I shouldn't wait a minnit if it was me," ses old Sam.
+
+Bill groaned and hid 'is face in his 'ands, and then Peter Russet went
+and spoilt things by saying that the safest place for a murderer to 'ide
+in was London.  Bill gave a dreadful groan when 'e said murderer, but 'e
+up and agreed with Peter, and all Sam and Ginger Dick could do wouldn't
+make 'im alter his mind.  He said that he would shave off 'is beard and
+moustache, and when night came 'e would creep out and take a lodging
+somewhere right the other end of London.
+
+"It'll soon be dark," ses Ginger, "and your own brother wouldn't know you
+now, Bill.  Where d'you think of going?"
+
+Bill shook his 'ead.  "Nobody must know that, mate," he ses.  "I must go
+into hiding for as long as I can--as long as my money lasts; I've only
+got six pounds left."
+
+"That'll last a long time if you're careful," ses Ginger.
+
+"I want a lot more," ses Bill.  "I want you to take this silver ring as a
+keepsake, Ginger.  If I 'ad another six pounds or so I should feel much
+safer.  'Ow much 'ave you got, Ginger?"
+
+"Not much," ses Ginger, shaking his 'ead.
+
+"Lend it to me, mate," ses Bill, stretching out his 'and.  "You can easy
+get another ship.  Ah, I wish I was you; I'd be as 'appy as 'appy if I
+hadn't got a penny."
+
+"I'm very sorry, Bill," ses Ginger, trying to smile, "but I've already
+promised to lend it to a man wot we met this evening.  A promise is a
+promise, else I'd lend it to you with pleasure."
+
+"Would you let me be 'ung for the sake of a few pounds, Ginger?"  ses
+Bill, looking at 'im reproach-fully.  "I'm a desprit man, Ginger, and I
+must 'ave that money."
+
+Afore pore Ginger could move he suddenly clapped 'is hand over 'is mouth
+and flung 'im on the bed.  Ginger was like a child in 'is hands, although
+he struggled like a madman, and in five minutes 'e was laying there with
+a towel tied round his mouth and 'is arms and legs tied up with the cord
+off of Sam's chest.
+
+"I'm very sorry, Ginger," ses Bill, as 'e took a little over eight pounds
+out of Ginger's pocket.  "I'll pay you back one o' these days, if I can.
+If you'd got a rope round your neck same as I 'ave you'd do the same as
+I've done."
+
+He lifted up the bedclothes and put Ginger inside and tucked 'im up.
+Ginger's face was red with passion and 'is eyes starting out of his 'ead.
+
+"Eight and six is fifteen," ses Bill, and just then he 'eard somebody
+coming up the stairs.  Ginger 'eard it, too, and as Peter Russet came
+into the room 'e tried all 'e could to attract 'is attention by rolling
+'is 'ead from side to side.
+
+"Why, 'as Ginger gone to bed?" ses Peter.  "Wot's up, Ginger?"
+
+"He's all right," ses Bill; "just a bit of a 'eadache."
+
+Peter stood staring at the bed, and then 'e pulled the clothes off and
+saw pore Ginger all tied up, and making awful eyes at 'im to undo him.
+
+"I 'ad to do it, Peter," ses Bill.  "I wanted some more money to escape
+with, and 'e wouldn't lend it to me.  I 'aven't got as much as I want
+now.  You just came in in the nick of time.  Another minute and you'd ha'
+missed me.  'Ow much 'ave you got?"
+
+"Ah, I wish I could lend you some, Bill," ses Peter Russet, turning pale,
+"but I've 'ad my pocket picked; that's wot I came back for, to get some
+from Ginger."
+
+Bill didn't say a word.
+
+"You see 'ow it is, Bill," ses Peter, edging back toward the door; "three
+men laid 'old of me and took every farthing I'd got."
+
+"Well, I can't rob you, then," ses Bill, catching 'old of 'im.
+"Whoever's money this is," he ses, pulling a handful out o' Peter's
+pocket, "it can't be yours.  Now, if you make another sound I'll knock
+your 'ead off afore I tie you up."
+
+"Don't tie me up, Bill," ses Peter, struggling.
+
+"I can't trust you," ses Bill, dragging 'im over to the washstand and
+taking up the other towel; "turn round."
+
+Peter was a much easier job than Ginger Dick, and arter Bill 'ad done 'im
+'e put 'im in alongside o' Ginger and covered 'em up, arter first tying
+both the gags round with some string to prevent 'em slipping.
+
+"Mind, I've only borrowed it," he ses, standing by the side o' the bed;
+"but I must say, mates, I'm disappointed in both of you.  If either of
+you 'ad 'ad the misfortune wot I've 'ad, I'd have sold the clothes off my
+back to 'elp you.  And I wouldn't 'ave waited to be asked neither."
+
+He stood there for a minute very sorrowful, and then 'e patted both their
+'eads and went downstairs.  Ginger and Peter lay listening for a bit, and
+then they turned their pore bound-up faces to each other and tried to
+talk with their eyes.
+
+Then Ginger began to wriggle and try and twist the cords off, but 'e
+might as well 'ave tried to wriggle out of 'is skin.  The worst of it was
+they couldn't make known their intentions to each other, and when Peter
+Russet leaned over 'im and tried to work 'is gag off by rubbing it up
+agin 'is nose, Ginger pretty near went crazy with temper.  He banged
+Peter with his 'ead, and Peter banged back, and they kept it up till
+they'd both got splitting 'eadaches, and at last they gave up in despair
+and lay in the darkness waiting for Sam.
+
+And all this time Sam was sitting in the Red Lion, waiting for them.  He
+sat there quite patient till twelve o'clock and then walked slowly 'ome,
+wondering wot 'ad happened and whether Bill had gone.
+
+Ginger was the fust to 'ear 'is foot on the stairs, and as he came into
+the room, in the darkness, him an' Peter Russet started shaking their bed
+in a way that scared old Sam nearly to death.  He thought it was Bill
+carrying on agin, and 'e was out o' that door and 'arf-way downstairs
+afore he stopped to take breath.  He stood there trembling for about ten
+minutes, and then, as nothing 'appened, he walked slowly upstairs agin on
+tiptoe, and as soon as they heard the door creak Peter and Ginger made
+that bed do everything but speak.
+
+"Is that you, Bill?"  ses old Sam, in a shaky voice, and standing ready
+to dash downstairs agin.
+
+There was no answer except for the bed, and Sam didn't know whether Bill
+was dying or whether 'e 'ad got delirium trimmings.  All 'e did know was
+that 'e wasn't going to sleep in that room.  He shut the door gently and
+went downstairs agin, feeling in 'is pocket for a match, and, not finding
+one, 'e picked out the softest stair 'e could find and, leaning his 'ead
+agin the banisters, went to sleep.
+
+[Illustration: "Picked out the softest stair 'e could find."]
+
+It was about six o'clock when 'e woke up, and broad daylight.  He was
+stiff and sore all over, and feeling braver in the light 'e stepped
+softly upstairs and opened the door.  Peter and Ginger was waiting for
+'im, and as he peeped in 'e saw two things sitting up in bed with their
+'air standing up all over like mops and their faces tied up with
+bandages.  He was that startled 'e nearly screamed, and then 'e stepped
+into the room and stared at 'em as if he couldn't believe 'is eyes.
+
+"Is that you, Ginger?" he ses.  "Wot d'ye mean by making sights of
+yourselves like that?  'Ave you took leave of your senses?"
+
+Ginger and Peter shook their 'eads and rolled their eyes, and then Sam
+see wot was the matter with 'em.  Fust thing 'e did was to pull out 'is
+knife and cut Ginger's gag off, and the fust thing Ginger did was to call
+'im every name 'e could lay his tongue to.
+
+"You wait a moment," he screams, 'arf crying with rage.  "You wait till I
+get my 'ands loose and I'll pull you to pieces.  The idea o' leaving us
+like this all night, you old crocodile.  I 'eard you come in.  I'll pay
+you."
+
+Sam didn't answer 'im.  He cut off Peter Russet's gag, and Peter Russet
+called 'im 'arf a score o' names without taking breath.
+
+"And when Ginger's finished I'll 'ave a go at you," he ses.  "Cut off
+these lines."
+
+"At once, d'ye hear?"  ses Ginger.  "Oh, you wait till I get my 'ands on
+you."
+
+Sam didn't answer 'em; he shut up 'is knife with a click and then 'e sat
+at the foot o' the bed on Ginger's feet and looked at 'em.  It wasn't the
+fust time they'd been rude to 'im, but as a rule he'd 'ad to put up with
+it.  He sat and listened while Ginger swore 'imself faint.
+
+"That'll do," he ses, at last; "another word and I shall put the
+bedclothes over your 'ead.  Afore I do anything more I want to know wot
+it's all about."
+
+Peter told 'im, arter fust calling 'im some more names, because Ginger
+was past it, and when 'e'd finished old Sam said 'ow surprised he was
+at them for letting Bill do it, and told 'em how they ought to 'ave
+prevented it.  He sat there talking as though 'e enjoyed the sound of 'is
+own voice, and he told Peter and Ginger all their faults and said wot
+sorrow it caused their friends.  Twice he 'ad to throw the bedclothes
+over their 'eads because o' the noise they was making.
+
+[Illustration: "Old Sam said 'ow surprised he was at them for letting
+Bill do it."]
+
+"_Are you going--to undo--us?_"  ses Ginger, at last.
+
+"No, Ginger," ses old Sam; "in justice to myself I couldn't do it.  Arter
+wot you've said--and arter wot I've said--my life wouldn't be safe.
+Besides which, you'd want to go shares in my money."
+
+He took up 'is chest and marched downstairs with it, and about 'arf an
+hour arterward the landlady's 'usband came up and set 'em free.  As soon
+as they'd got the use of their legs back they started out to look for
+Sam, but they didn't find 'im for nearly a year, and as for Bill, they
+never set eyes on 'im again.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Bill's Lapse, by W.W. Jacobs
+
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+[Illustration: MONKEY IN CHURCH. Page 88.]
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+[Illustration: MINNIE and her PETS.
+  BY MRS MADELINE LESLIE.
+  MINNIE'S PET MONKEY.]
+
+
+
+
+                       MINNIE'S PET MONKEY.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
+
+A. R. BAKER,
+
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
+Massachusetts.
+
+ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
+
+
+
+
+                    TO MY YOUNG FRIEND,
+
+                  HENRY FOWLE DURANT, JR.
+
+                  =These Little Volumes=
+
+               ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
+
+                      BY THE AUTHOR,
+
+  IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT THEY MAY INCREASE IN HIM THAT
+      LOVE OF NATURE AND OF RURAL LIFE WHICH HAS EVER
+          EXERTED SO SALUTARY AN INFLUENCE IN THE
+              FORMATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF
+                    THE WISE AND GOOD.
+
+
+
+
+MINNIE AND HER PETS.
+
+  Minnie's Pet Parrot.
+  Minnie's Pet Cat.
+  Minnie's Pet Dog.
+  Minnie's Pet Horse.
+  Minnie's Pet Lamb.
+  Minnie's Pet Monkey.
+
+
+
+
+MINNIE'S PET MONKEY.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+JACKO AND HIS WOUNDED TAIL.
+
+
+Did you ever see a monkey? If you have not, I suppose you will like to
+hear a description of Jacko, Minnie's sixth pet.
+
+He was about eighteen inches high, with long arms, covered with short
+hair, which he used as handily as a boy, flexible fingers, with flat
+nails, and a long tail, covered with hair, which seemed to answer the
+purpose of a third hand.
+
+Though monkeys are usually very ugly and unpleasant, from their
+approaching so nearly to the human face, and still bearing so strongly
+the marks of the mere brute, yet Jacko was a pretty little fellow.
+
+He had bright eyes, which sparkled like diamonds from beneath his
+deep-set eyebrows. His teeth were of the most pearly whiteness, and he
+made a constant display of them, grinning and chattering continually.
+But I ought to tell you about his passage in uncle Frank's ship.
+
+On one of Captain Lee's voyages, he touched upon the coast of Africa,
+where he saw the little fellow in a hen-coop, just about to be carried
+on board a whaler. The gentleman had often thought he should like to
+carry his favorite niece a little pet; but as she already had a parrot,
+he did not know what she would wish.
+
+But when he listened to the chattering of the monkey, and heard the
+sailor who owned him say what a funny little animal it was, he thought
+he would buy it and take it home to her.
+
+On the voyage, Jacko met with a sad accident. The hen-coop in which he
+was confined was too small to contain the whole of his tail, and he was
+obliged, when he slept, to let the end of it hang out. This was a great
+affliction to the poor animal, for he was very proud of his tail, which
+was indeed quite an addition to his good looks.
+
+It so happened that there were two large cats on board ship; and one
+night, as they were prowling about, they saw the tail hanging out while
+Jacko was sound asleep; and before he had time to move, one of them
+seized it and bit it off.
+
+The monkey was very indignant, and if he could have had a fair chance at
+his enemies, would have soon punished them for their impudence. It was
+really amusing to see him afterward. He would pull his bleeding tail in
+through the bars of the hen-coop, and give it a malicious bite, as much
+as to say,--
+
+"I wish you were off. You are of no use to me now; and you look terribly
+short."
+
+When they reached New York, at the end of their voyage, Captain Lee took
+Jacko out of the hen-coop, and put him in a bag, which was carried into
+the depot while he was purchasing his ticket. The monkey, who must needs
+see every thing that was going on, suddenly poked his head out of the
+bag, and gave a malicious grin at the ticket-master.
+
+The man was much frightened, but presently recovered himself, and
+returned the insult by saying,--
+
+"Sir, that's a dog! It's the rule that no dog can go in the cars without
+being paid for."
+
+It was all in vain that the captain tried to convince him that Jacko
+was not a dog, but a monkey. He even took him out of the bag; but in the
+face of this evidence, the man would persist in saying,--
+
+"He is a dog, and must have a ticket before he enters the cars."
+
+So a ticket was bought, and Jacko was allowed to proceed on his journey.
+
+The little fellow was as pleased as the captain when he arrived at the
+end of his journey, and took possession of his pleasant quarters in the
+shed adjoining Mr. Lee's fine house. He soon grew fond of his little
+mistress, and played all manner of tricks, jumping up and down, swinging
+with his tail, which had begun to heal, and chattering with all his
+might in his efforts to please her.
+
+Mr. Lee, at the suggestion of his brother, the captain, had a nice
+house or cage made for Minnie's new pet, into which he could be put if
+he became troublesome, and where he always went to sleep. The rest of
+the time he was allowed his liberty, as far as his chain would reach.
+
+Jacko came from a very warm climate, and therefore often suffered from
+the cold in the northern latitude to which he had been brought.
+
+Mrs. Lee could not endure to see a monkey dressed like a man, as they
+sometimes are in shows. She said they looked disgustingly; but she
+consented that the little fellow should have a tight red jacket, and
+some drawers, to keep him comfortable. Minnie, too, begged from her some
+old pieces of carpeting, to make him a bed, when Jacko seemed greatly
+delighted. He did not now, as before, often stand in the morning
+shaking, and blue with the cold, but laughed, and chattered, and showed
+his gratitude in every possible way.
+
+Not many months after Jacko came, and when he had become well acquainted
+with all the family, Fidelle had a family of kittens, which she often
+carried in her mouth back and forth through the shed. The very sight of
+these little animals seemed to excite Jacko exceedingly. He would
+spring the entire length of his chain, trying to reach them.
+
+One day, when the kittens had begun to run alone, and were getting to be
+very playful, the cook heard a great noise in the shed, and Fidelle
+crying with all her might. She ran to see what was the matter, and, to
+her surprise, found Jacko sitting up in the cage, grinning with delight,
+while he held one of the kittens in his arms, hugging it as if it had
+been a baby.
+
+Cook knew the sight would please Minnie, and she ran to call her. But
+the child sympathized too deeply in Fidelle's distress to enjoy it. She
+tried to get the kitten away from Jacko, but he had no idea of giving it
+up, until at last, when Mrs. Lee, who had come to the rescue, gave him a
+piece of cake, of which he was very fond, he relaxed his hold, and she
+instantly released the poor, frightened little animal.
+
+Fidelle took warning by this occurrence, and never ventured through the
+shed again with her babies, though Jacko might seem to be sound asleep
+in his cage.
+
+Jacko had been at Mr. Lee's more than a year before they knew him to
+break his chain and run about by himself. The first visit he made was to
+Leo, in the barn, and he liked it so well that, somehow or other, he
+contrived to repeat the visit quite as often as it was agreeable to the
+dog, who never could endure him.
+
+After this, he became very mischievous, so that every one of the
+servants, though they often had a great laugh at his tricks, would have
+been glad to have the little fellow carried back to his home in Africa.
+
+I don't think even Minnie loved her pet monkey as well as she did her
+other pets. She could not take him in her arms as she did Fidelle and
+Tiney, nor play with him as she did with Nannie and her lamb, and he
+could not carry her on his back, as Star did.
+
+"Well," she said, one day, after discussing the merits of her animals
+with her mamma, "Poll talks to me, and Jacko makes me laugh; but if I
+should have to give up one of my pets, I had rather it would be the
+monkey."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+JACKO BLACKING THE TABLE.
+
+
+One morning, cook went to her mistress with loud complaints of Jacko's
+tricks.
+
+"What has he been doing now?" inquired the lady, with some anxiety.
+
+"All kinds of mischief, ma'am. If I didn't like you, and the master, and
+Miss Minnie so well, I wouldn't be living in the same house with a
+monkey, no ways."
+
+Here the woman, having relieved her mind, began to relate Jacko's new
+offence, and soon was joining heartily in the laugh her story caused her
+mistress.
+
+"Since the trickish fellow found the way to undo his chain, ma'am, he
+watches every thing that is done in the kitchen. Yesterday I polished
+the range, and the door to the oven. I suppose he saw me at work, and
+thought it would be good fun; for when I was out of the kitchen hanging
+some towels to dry on the line, in he walks to the closet where I keep
+the blacking and brushes, and what should he do but black the table and
+chairs? Such a sight, ma'am, as would make your eyes cry to see. It'll
+take me half the forenoon to clean them."
+
+"I think you will have to take a little stick, Hepsy," said Mrs. Lee,
+smiling, "and whip him when he does mischief."
+
+"Indeed, ma'am, and it's little strength I'd have left me to do the
+cooking if I gave him half the whippings he deserves; besides, I'd be
+sure to get the cratur's ill will; and they say that's unlucky for any
+one."
+
+"What does she mean, mamma, by its being unlucky?" inquired Minnie, when
+the cook had returned to her work in the kitchen.
+
+"I can't say, my dear. You know Hepsy has some strange ideas which she
+brought with her from Ireland. It may be she has heard of the
+superstitious reverence some nations have for the monkey."
+
+"O, mamma, will you please tell me about it?"
+
+"I have read that in many parts of India, monkeys are made objects of
+worship; and splendid temples are dedicated to their honor.
+
+"At one time, when the Portuguese plundered the Island of Ceylon, they
+found, in one of the temples dedicated to these animals, a small golden
+casket containing the tooth of a monkey. This was held in such
+estimation by the natives, that they offered nearly a million of dollars
+to redeem it. But the viceroy, thinking it would be a salutary
+punishment to them, ordered it to be burned.
+
+"Some years after, a Portuguese, having obtained a similar tooth,
+pretended that he had recovered the old one, which so rejoiced the
+priests that they purchased it from him for more than fifty thousand
+dollars."
+
+Minnie laughed. "I should suppose," she said, "that if cook thinks so
+much of monkeys, she would be pleased to live with them. Do you know
+any more about monkeys, mamma?"
+
+"I confess, my dear, that monkeys have never been among my favorites.
+There are a great many kinds, but all are mischievous, troublesome, and
+thievish. The dispositions of some of them are extremely bad, while
+others are so mild and tractable as to be readily tamed and taught a
+great variety of tricks. They live together in large groups, leaping
+with surprising agility from tree to tree. Travellers say it is very
+amusing to listen to the chattering of these animals, which they compare
+to the shouting of a grand cavalcade, all speaking together, and yet
+seeming perfectly to understand one another.
+
+"In the countries of the Eastern Peninsula, where they abound, the
+matrons are often observed, in the cool of the evening, sitting in a
+circle round their little ones, which amuse themselves with their
+various gambols. The merriment of the young, as they jump over each
+other's heads, and wrestle in sport, is most ludicrously contrasted with
+the gravity of their seniors, who are secretly delighted with the fun,
+but far too dignified to let it appear.
+
+"But when any foolish little one behaves ill, the mamma will be seen to
+jump into the throng, seize the juvenile by the tail, take it over her
+knee, and give it a good whipping."
+
+"O, how very funny, mamma! I wonder whether Jacko was treated so. Will
+you please tell me more? I do like to hear about monkeys."
+
+"If you will bring me that book from the library next the one about
+cats, perhaps I can find some anecdotes to read to you."
+
+The little girl clapped her hands with delight, and running gayly to the
+next room, soon returned with the book, when her mother read as
+follows:--
+
+"A family in England had a pet monkey. On one occasion, the footman
+retired to his room to shave himself, without noticing that the animal
+had followed him. The little fellow watched him closely during the
+process, and noticed where the man put his razor and brush.
+
+"No sooner had the footman left the room, than the monkey slyly took the
+razor, and, mounting on a chair opposite the small mirror, began to
+scrape away at his throat, as he had seen the man do; but alas! not
+understanding the nature of the instrument he was using, the poor
+creature cut so deep a gash, that he bled profusely. He was found in
+the situation described, with the razor still in his fingers, but
+unfortunately was too far gone to be recovered, and soon died, leaving a
+caution to his fellows against playing with edged tools."
+
+"I hope Jacko will never see any body shave," said Minnie, in a
+faltering voice.
+
+"Here is a funny story, my dear, about a monkey in the West Indies. The
+little fellow was kept tied to a stake in the open air, and was
+frequently deprived of his food by the Johnny Crows. He tried to drive
+them off, but without success, and at last made the following plan for
+punishing the thieves.
+
+"Perceiving a flock of these birds coming toward him one day just after
+his food had been brought, he lay down near his stake, and pretended to
+be dead. For some time, he lay perfectly motionless, when the birds,
+really deceived, approached by degrees, and got near enough to steal his
+food, which he allowed them to do. This game he repeated several times,
+till they became so bold as to come within reach of his claws, when he
+suddenly sprang up and caught his victim in his firm grasp. Death was
+not his plan of punishment. He wished to make a man of him, according
+to the ancient definition, 'a biped without feathers,' and therefore,
+plucking the crow neatly, he let him go to show himself to his
+companions. This proved so effectual a punishment, that he was
+afterwards left to eat his food in peace."
+
+"I don't see," said Minnie, thoughtfully, "how a monkey could ever think
+of such a way."
+
+"It certainly does show a great deal of sagacity," responded the lady,
+"and a great deal of cunning in carrying out his plan."
+
+"I hope there are ever so many anecdotes, mamma."
+
+Mrs. Lee turned over the leaves. "Yes, my dear," she said, cheerfully,
+"there are quite a number; some of them seem to be very amusing, but I
+have only time to read you one more to-day."
+
+"Dr. Guthrie gives an amusing account of a monkey named Jack.
+
+"Seeing his master and friends drinking whiskey with great apparent
+relish, he took the opportunity, when he thought he was unseen, to empty
+their half-filled glasses; and while they were roaring with laughter, he
+began to hop, skip, and jump. Poor Jack was drunk.
+
+"The next day, his master wanted to repeat the experiment, but found
+Jack had not recovered from the effects of his dissipation. He commanded
+him to come to the table; but the poor fellow put his hand to his head,
+and not all their endeavors could induce him to taste another drop all
+his life.
+
+"Jack became a thorough teetotaller."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+JACKO RUNNING AWAY.
+
+
+Minnie had a cousin Frank, the son of Mr. Harry Lee. He was three years
+older than Minnie, and was full of life and frolic.
+
+At one time he came to visit Minnie; and fine fun indeed they had with
+the pets, the monkey being his especial favorite.
+
+Every day some new experiment was to be tried with Jacko, who, as Frank
+declared, could be taught any thing that they wished. One time, he took
+the little fellow by the chain for a walk, Minnie gayly running by his
+side, and wondering what her cousin was going to do.
+
+On their way to the barn, they met Leo, who at once began to bark
+furiously.
+
+"That will never do, my brave fellow," exclaimed the boy; "for we want
+you to turn horse, and take Jacko to ride."
+
+"O, Frank! Leo will kill him. Don't do that!" urged Minnie, almost
+crying.
+
+"But I mean to make them good friends," responded the lad. "Here, you
+take hold of the chain, and I will coax the dog to be quiet while I put
+Jacko on his back."
+
+This was not so easy as he had supposed; for no amount of coaxing or
+flattery would induce Leo to be impressed into this service. He hated
+the monkey, and was greatly disgusted at his appearance as he hopped,
+first on Frank's shoulder, and then to the ground, his head sticking out
+of his little red jacket, and his face wearing a malicious grin.
+
+Finding they could not succeed in this, they went into the stable to
+visit Star, when, with a quick motion, Jacko twitched the chain from
+Minnie's hand, and running up the rack above the manger, began to laugh
+and chatter in great glee.
+
+His tail, which had now fully healed, was of great use to him on this
+occasion, when, to Minnie's great surprise, he clung with it to the bar
+of the rack, and began to swing himself about.
+
+[Illustration: JACKO RUNNING AWAY. Page 52.]
+
+"I heard of a monkey once," exclaimed Frank, laughing merrily, "who made
+great use of his tail. If a nut or apple were thrown to him which fell
+beyond his reach, he would run to the full length of his chain, turn his
+back, then stretch out his tail, and draw toward him the coveted
+delicacy."
+
+"Let's see whether Jacko would do so," shouted Minnie, greatly excited
+with the project.
+
+"When we can catch him. But see how funny he looks. There he goes up the
+hay mow, the chain dangling after him."
+
+"If we don't try to catch him, he'll come quicker," said Minnie,
+gravely.
+
+"I know another story about a monkey--a real funny one," added the boy.
+"I don't know what his name was; but he used to sleep in the barn with
+the cattle and horses. I suppose monkeys are always cold here; at any
+rate, this one was; and when he saw the hostler give the horse a nice
+feed of hay, he said to himself, 'What a comfortable bed that would make
+for me!'
+
+"When the man went away, he jumped into the hay and hid, and every time
+the horse came near enough to eat, he sprang forward and bit her ears
+with his sharp teeth.
+
+"Of course, as the poor horse couldn't get her food, she grew very thin,
+and at last was so frightened that the hostler could scarcely get her
+into the stall. Several times he had to whip her before she would enter
+it, and then she stood as far back as possible, trembling like a leaf.
+
+"It was a long time before they found out what the matter was; and then
+the monkey had to take a whipping, I guess."
+
+"If his mother had been there, she would have whipped him," said Minnie,
+laughing.
+
+"What do you mean?"
+
+The little girl then repeated what her mother had told her of the
+discipline among monkeys, at which he was greatly amused.
+
+All this time, they were standing at the bottom of the hay mow, and
+supposed that Jacko was safe at the top; but the little fellow was more
+cunning than they thought. He found the window open near the roof, where
+hay was sometimes pitched in, and ran down into the yard as quick as
+lightning.
+
+The first they knew of it was when John called out from the barnyard,
+"Jacko, Jacko! Soh, Jacko! Be quiet, sir!"
+
+It was a wearisome chase they had for the next hour, and at the end they
+could not catch the runaway; but at last, when they sat down calmly in
+the house, he stole back to his cage, and lay there quiet as a lamb.
+
+Minnie's face was flushed with her unusual exercise, but in a few
+minutes she grew very pale, until her mother became alarmed. After a few
+drops of lavender, however, she said she felt better, and that if Frank
+would tell her a story she should be quite well.
+
+"That I will," exclaimed the boy, eagerly. "I know a real funny one;
+you like funny stories--don't you?"
+
+"Yes, when they're true," answered Minnie.
+
+"Well, this is really true. A man was hunting, and he happened to kill a
+monkey that had a little baby on her back. The little one clung so close
+to her dead mother, that they could scarcely get it away. When they
+reached the gentleman's house, the poor creature began to cry at
+finding itself alone. All at once it ran across the room to a block,
+where a wig belonging to the hunter's father was placed, and thinking
+that was its mother, was so comforted that it lay down and went to
+sleep.
+
+"They fed it with goat's milk, and it grew quite contented, for three
+weeks clinging to the wig with great affection.
+
+"The gentleman had a large and valuable collection of insects, which
+were dried upon pins, and placed in a room appropriated to such
+purposes.
+
+"One day, when the monkey had become so familiar as to be a favorite
+with all in the family, he found his way to this apartment, and made a
+hearty breakfast on the insects.
+
+"The owner, entering when the meal was almost concluded, was greatly
+enraged, and was about to chastise the animal, who had so quickly
+destroyed the work of years, when he saw that the act had brought its
+own punishment. In eating the insects, the animal had swallowed the
+pins, which very soon caused him such agony that he died."
+
+"I don't call the last part funny at all," said Minnie, gravely.
+
+"But wasn't it queer for it to think the wig was its mother?" asked the
+boy, with a merry laugh. "I don't think it could have had much sense to
+do that."
+
+"But it was only a baby monkey then, Harry."
+
+"How did it happen," inquired Mrs. Lee, "that Jacko got away from you?"
+
+"He watched his chance, aunty, and twitched the chain away from Minnie.
+Now he's done it once, he'll try the game again, I suppose, he is so
+fond of playing us tricks."
+
+And true enough, the very next morning the lady was surprised at a visit
+from the monkey in her chamber, where he made himself very much at home,
+pulling open drawers, and turning over the contents, in the hope of
+finding some confectionery, of which he was extremely fond.
+
+"Really," she exclaimed to her husband, "if Jacko goes on so, I shall
+be of cook's mind, and not wish to live in the house with him."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE MONKEY IN CHURCH.
+
+
+One day, Jacko observed nurse washing out some fine clothes for her
+mistress, and seemed greatly interested in the suds which she made in
+the progress of her work.
+
+Watching his chance, he went to Mrs. Lee's room while the family were at
+breakfast one morning, and finding some nice toilet soap on the marble
+washstand, began to rub it on some fine lace lying on the bureau. After
+a little exertion, he was delighted to find that he had a bowl full of
+nice, perfumed suds, and was chattering to himself in great glee, when
+Ann came in and spoiled his sport.
+
+"You good for nothing, mischievous creature," she cried out, in sudden
+wrath, "I'll cure you of prowling about the house in this style."
+Giving him a cuff across his head with a shoe, "Go back to your cage,
+where you belong."
+
+"Jacko is really getting to be very troublesome," remarked the lady to
+her husband. "I can't tell how much longer my patience with him will
+last."
+
+"Would Minnie mourn very much if she were to lose him?" asked Mr. Lee.
+
+"I suppose she would for a time; but then she has so many pets to take
+up her attention."
+
+Just then the child ran in, her eyes filled with tears, exclaiming,--
+
+"Father, does Jacko know any better? Is he to blame for trying to wash?"
+
+Mr. Lee laughed.
+
+"Because," she went on, "I found him crouched down in his cage, looking
+very sorry; and nurse says he ought to be ashamed of himself, cutting
+up such ridiculous capers."
+
+"I dare say he feels rather guilty," remarked Mr. Lee. "He must be
+taught better, or your mother will be tired of him."
+
+When her father had gone to the city, Minnie looked so grave that her
+mother, to comfort her, took the book and read her some stories. A few
+of them I will repeat to you.
+
+"A lady was returning from India, in a ship on board of which there was
+a monkey. She was a very mild, gentle creature, and readily learned any
+thing that was taught her. When she went to lie down at night, she made
+up her bed in imitation of her mistress, then got in and wrapped herself
+up neatly with the quilt. Sometimes she would wrap her head with a
+handkerchief.
+
+"When she did wrong, she would kneel and clasp her hands, seeming
+earnestly to ask to be forgiven."
+
+"That's a good story, mamma."
+
+"Yes, dear; and here is another."
+
+"A gentleman boarding with his wife at a hotel in Paris had a pet
+monkey, who was very polite. One day his master met him going down
+stairs; and when the gentleman said 'good morning,' the animal took off
+his cap and made a very polite bow.
+
+"'Are you going away?' asked the owner. 'Where is your passport?' Upon
+this the monkey held out a square piece of paper.
+
+"'See!' said the gentleman; 'your mistress' gown is dusty.'
+
+"Jack instantly took a small brush from his master's pocket, raised the
+hem of the lady's dress, cleaned it, and then did the same to his
+master's shoes, which were also dusty.
+
+"When they gave him any thing to eat, he did not cram his pouches with
+it, but delicately and tidily devoured it; and when, as frequently
+occurred, strangers gave him money, he always put it in his master's
+hands."
+
+"Do you think, mamma, I could teach Jacko to do so?" inquired Minnie,
+eagerly.
+
+"I can't say, my dear; and indeed I think it would be hardly worth the
+pains to spend a great deal of time in teaching him. He seems to learn
+quite fast enough by himself. Indeed, he is so full of tricks, and so
+troublesome to cook in hiding her kitchen utensils, I am afraid we shall
+have to put him in close confinement."
+
+"I had rather uncle Frank would carry him back to Africa," sighed the
+child. "He would be so unhappy."
+
+"Well, dear, I wouldn't grieve about it now. We must manage somehow till
+uncle Frank comes, and then perhaps he can tell us what to do. Now I'll
+read you another story."
+
+"A monkey living with a gentleman in the country became so troublesome
+that the servants were constantly complaining."
+
+"That seems similar to our case," said the lady, smiling, as she
+interrupted the reading.
+
+"One day, having his offers of assistance rudely repulsed, he went into
+the next house by a window in the second story, which was unfortunately
+open. Here he pulled out a small drawer, where the lady kept ribbons,
+laces, and handkerchiefs, and putting them in a foot-tub, rubbed away
+vigorously for an hour, with all the soap and water there were to be
+found in the room.
+
+"When the lady returned to the chamber, he was busily engaged in
+spreading the torn and disfigured remnants to dry.
+
+"He knew well enough he was doing wrong; for, without her speaking to
+him, he made off quickly and ran home, where he hid himself in the case
+of the large kitchen clock.
+
+"The servants at once knew he had been in mischief, as this was his
+place of refuge when he was in disgrace.
+
+"One day he watched the cook while she was preparing some partridges for
+dinner, and concluded that all birds ought to be so treated. He soon
+managed to get into the yard, where his mistress kept a few pet bantam
+fowls, and, after eating their eggs, he secured one of the hens, and
+began plucking it. The noise of the poor bird called some of the
+servants to the rescue, when they found the half-plucked creature in
+such a pitiable condition that they killed it at once. After this, Mr.
+Monkey was chained up, and soon died."
+
+Minnie looked very grave after hearing this story, and presently said,
+"I wonder how old that monkey was."
+
+"The book does not mention his age, my dear. Why?"
+
+"I was thinking that perhaps, as Jacko grows older, he may learn better;
+and then I said to myself, 'That one must have been young.'"
+
+"If a monkey is really inclined to be vicious, he is almost unbearable,"
+remarked the lady. "His company does not begin to compensate for the
+trouble he makes. Sometimes he is only cunning, but otherwise mild and
+tractable."
+
+"And which, mamma, do you think Jacko is?"
+
+"I have always thought, until lately, that he was one of the better
+kind; but I have now a good many doubts whether you enjoy her funny
+tricks enough to compensate cook for all the mischief she does. If I
+knew any one who wanted a pet monkey, and would treat him kindly, I
+should be glad to have him go. I should hate to have him killed."
+
+"Killed!" screamed Minnie, with a look of horror; "O, mamma, I wouldn't
+have one of my pets killed for any thing."
+
+Mrs. Lee thought that would probably be at some time Nannie's fate, but
+she wisely said nothing.
+
+"Please read more, mamma. I don't want to think about such awful
+things."
+
+The lady cast her eyes over the page, and laughed heartily. Presently
+she said, "Here is a very curious anecdote, which I will read you; but
+first I must explain to you what a sounding-board is.
+
+"In old fashioned churches, there used to hang, directly over the
+pulpit, a large, round board, like the top of a table, which, it was
+thought, assisted the minister's voice to be heard by all the
+congregation. I can remember, when I was a child, going to visit my
+grandmother, and accompanying her to church, where there was a
+sounding-board. I worried, through the whole service, for fear it would
+fall on the minister's head and kill him. But I will read."
+
+"There was once an eminent clergyman by the name of Casaubon, who kept
+in his family a tame monkey, of which he was very fond. This animal,
+which was allowed its liberty, liked to follow the minister, when he
+went out, but on the Sabbath was usually shut up till his owner was out
+of sight, on his way to church.
+
+"But one Sabbath morning, when the clergyman, taking his sermon under
+his arm, went out, the monkey followed him unobserved, and watching the
+opportunity while his master was speaking to a gentleman on the steps,
+ran up at the back of the pulpit, and jumped upon the sounding-board.
+
+"Here he gravely seated himself, looking round in a knowing manner on
+the congregation, who were greatly amused at so strange a spectacle.
+
+"The services proceeded as usual, while the monkey, who evidently much
+enjoyed the sight of so many people, occasionally peeped over the
+sounding-board, to observe the movements of his master, who was
+unconscious of his presence.
+
+"When the sermon commenced, many little forms were convulsed with
+laughter, which conduct so shocked the good pastor, that he thought it
+his duty to administer a reproof, which he did with considerable action
+of his hands and arms.
+
+"The monkey, who had now become familiar with the scene, imitated every
+motion, until at last a scarcely suppressed smile appeared upon the
+countenance of most of the audience. This occurred, too, in one of the
+most solemn passages in the discourse; and so horrible did the levity
+appear to the good minister, that he launched forth into violent rebuke,
+every word being enforced by great energy of action.
+
+"All this time, the little fellow overhead mimicked every movement with
+ardor and exactness.
+
+"The audience, witnessing this apparent competition between the good man
+and his monkey, could no longer retain the least appearance of
+composure, and burst into roars of laughter, in the midst of which one
+of the congregation kindly relieved the horror of the pastor at the
+irreverence and impiety of his flock, by pointing out the cause of the
+merriment.
+
+"Casting his eyes upward, the minister could just discern the animal
+standing on the end of the sounding-board, and gesturing with all his
+might, when he found it difficult to control himself, though highly
+exasperated at the occurrence. He gave directions to have the monkey
+removed, and sat down to compose himself, and allow his congregation to
+recover their equanimity while the order was being obeyed."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+JACKO IN THE PANTRY.
+
+
+In his frequent visits to the stable, Jacko amused himself by catching
+mice that crept out to pick up the corn.
+
+The servants, having noticed his skill, thought they would turn it to
+good account, and having been troubled with mice in the pantry,
+determined to take advantage of the absence of Mrs. Lee on a journey,
+and shut the monkey up in it. So, one evening, they took him out of his
+comfortable bed, and chained him up in the larder, having removed every
+thing except some jam pots, which they thought out of his reach, and
+well secured with bladder stretched over the top.
+
+Poor Jacko was evidently much astonished, and quite indignant, at this
+treatment, but presently consoled himself by jumping into a soup
+tureen, where he fell sound asleep, while the mice scampered all over
+the place.
+
+As soon as it was dawn, the mice retired to their holes. Jacko awoke
+shivering with cold, stretched himself, and then, pushing the soup
+tureen from the shelf, broke it to pieces. After this achievement, he
+began to look about for something to eat, when he spied the jam pots on
+the upper shelf.
+
+"There is something good," he thought, smelling them. "I'll see."
+
+His sharp teeth soon worked an entrance, when the treasured jams, plums,
+raspberry, strawberry, candied apricots, the pride and care of the cook,
+disappeared in an unaccountably short time.
+
+At last, his appetite for sweets was satisfied, and coiling his tail in
+a corner, he lay quietly awaiting the servant's coming to take him out.
+
+Presently he heard the door cautiously open, when the chamber girl gave
+a scream of horror as she saw the elegant China dish broken into a
+thousand bits, and lying scattered on the floor.
+
+She ran in haste to summon Hepsy and the nurse, her heart misgiving her
+that this was not the end of the calamity. They easily removed Jacko,
+who began already to experience the sad effects of overloading his
+stomach, and then found, with alarm and grief, the damage he had done.
+
+For several days the monkey did not recover from the effects of his
+excess. He was never shut up again in the pantry.
+
+When Mrs. Lee returned she blamed the servants for trying such an
+experiment in her absence. Jacko was now well, and ready for some new
+mischief; and Minnie, who heard a ludicrous account of the story,
+laughed till she cried.
+
+She repeated it, in great glee, to her father, who looked very grave as
+he said, "We think a sea voyage would do the troublesome fellow good;
+but you shall have a Canary or a pair of Java sparrows instead."
+
+"Don't you know any stories of good monkeys, father?"
+
+"I don't recollect any at this moment, my dear; but I will see whether I
+can find any for you."
+
+He opened the book, and then asked,--
+
+"Did you know, Minnie, that almost all monkeys have bags or pouches in
+their cheeks, the skin of which is loose, and when empty makes the
+animal look wrinkled?"
+
+"No, sir; I never heard about it."
+
+"Yes, that is the case. He puts his food in them, and keeps it there
+till he wishes to devour it.
+
+"There are some kinds, too, that have what is called prehensile tails;
+that is, tails by which they can hang themselves to the limb of a tree,
+and which they use with nearly as much ease as they can their hands. The
+facility which this affords them for moving about quickly among the
+branches of trees is astonishing. The firmness of the grasp which it
+makes is very surprising; for if it winds a single coil around a branch,
+it is quite sufficient, not only to support its weight, but to enable it
+to swing in such a manner as to gain a fresh hold with its feet."
+
+"I'm sure, father," eagerly cried Minnie, "that Jacko has a prehensile
+tail, for I have often seen him swing from the ladder which goes up the
+hay mow."
+
+"I dare say, child. He seems to be up to every thing. But here is an
+account of an Indian monkey, of a light grayish yellow color, with black
+hands and feet. The face is black, with a violet tinge. This is called
+Hoonuman, and is much venerated by the Hindoos. They believe it to be
+one of the animals into which the souls of their friends pass at death.
+If one of these monkeys is killed, the murderer is instantly put to
+death; and, thus protected, they become a great nuisance, and destroy
+great quantities of fruit. But in South America, monkeys are killed by
+the natives as game, for the sake of the flesh. Absolute necessity alone
+would compel us to eat them. A great naturalist named Humboldt tells us
+that their manner of cooking them is especially disgusting. They are
+raised a foot from the ground, and bent into a sitting position, in
+which they greatly resemble a child, and are roasted in that manner. A
+hand and arm of a monkey, roasted in this way, are exhibited in a museum
+in Paris."
+
+"Monkeys have a curious way of introducing their tails into the fissures
+or hollows of trees, for the purpose of hooking out eggs and other
+substances. On approaching a spot where there is a supply of food, they
+do not alight at once, but take a survey of the neighborhood, a general
+cry being kept up by the party."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE CRUEL MONKEY.
+
+
+One afternoon, Minnie ran out of breath to the parlor. "Mamma," she
+exclaimed, "cook says monkeys are real cruel in their families. Is it
+true?"
+
+The lady smiled. "I suppose, my dear," she responded, "that there is a
+difference of disposition among them. I have heard that they are very
+fond of their young, and that, when threatened with danger, they mount
+them on their back, or clasp them to their breast with great affection.
+
+"But I saw lately an anecdote of the cruelty of a monkey to his wife,
+and if I can find the book, I will read it to you."
+
+"There is an animal called the fair monkey, which, though the most
+beautiful of its tribe, is gloomy and cruel. One of these, which, from
+its extreme beauty and apparent gentleness, was allowed to ramble at
+liberty over a ship, soon became a great favorite with the crew, and in
+order to make him perfectly happy, as they imagined, they procured him a
+wife.
+
+"For some weeks, he was a devoted husband, and showed her every
+attention and respect. He then grew cool, and began to use her with much
+cruelty. His treatment made her wretched and dull.
+
+"One day, the crew noticed that he treated her with more kindness than
+usual, but did not suspect the wicked scheme he had in mind. At last,
+after winning her favor anew, he persuaded her to go aloft with him, and
+drew her attention to an object in the distance, when he suddenly gave
+her a push, which threw her into the sea.
+
+"This cruel act seemed to afford him much gratification, for he
+descended in high spirits."
+
+"I should think they would have punished him," said Minnie, with great
+indignation.
+
+"Perhaps they did, love. At any rate, it proves that beauty is by no
+means always to be depended upon."
+
+Mrs. Lee then took her sewing, but Minnie plead so earnestly for one
+more story, a good long one, that her mother, who loved to gratify her,
+complied, and read the account which I shall give you in closing this
+chapter on Minnie's pet monkey.
+
+"A gentleman, returning from India, brought a monkey, which he presented
+to his wife. She called it Sprite, and soon became very fond of it.
+
+"Sprite was very fond of beetles, and also of spiders, and his mistress
+used sometimes to hold his chain, lengthened by a string, and make him
+run up the curtains, and clear out the cobwebs for the housekeeper.
+
+"On one occasion, he watched his opportunity, and snatching the chain,
+ran off, and was soon seated on the top of a cottage, grinning and
+chattering to the assembled crowd of schoolboys, as much as to say,
+'Catch me if you can.' He got the whole town in an uproar, but finally
+leaped over every thing, dragging his chain after him, and nestled
+himself in his own bed, where he lay with his eyes closed, his mouth
+open, his sides ready to burst with his running.
+
+"Another time, the little fellow got loose, but remembering his former
+experience, only stole into the shed, where he tried his hand at
+cleaning knives. He did not succeed very well in this, however, for the
+handle was the part he attempted to polish, and, cutting his fingers, he
+relinquished the sport.
+
+"Resolved not to be defeated, he next set to work to clean the shoes and
+boots, a row of which were awaiting the boy. But Sprite, not remembering
+all the steps of the performance, first covered the entire shoe, sole
+and all, with the blacking, and then emptied the rest of the Day &
+Martin into it, nearly filling it with the precious fluid. His coat was
+a nice mess for some days after.
+
+"One morning, when the servants returned to the kitchen, they found
+Sprite had taken all the kitchen candlesticks out of the cupboard, and
+arranged them on the fender, as he had once seen done. As soon as he
+heard the servants returning, he ran to his basket, and tried to look as
+though nothing had happened.
+
+"Sprite was exceedingly fond of a bath. Occasionally a bowl of water was
+given him, when he would cunningly try the temperature by putting in his
+finger, after which he gradually stepped in, first one foot, then the
+other, till he was comfortably seated. Then he took the soap and rubbed
+himself all over. Having made a dreadful splashing all around, he jumped
+out and ran to the fire, shivering. If any body laughed at him during
+this performance, he made threatening gestures, chattering with all his
+might to show his displeasure, and sometimes he splashed water all over
+them.
+
+"Poor Sprite one day nearly committed suicide. As he was brought from a
+very warm climate, he often suffered exceedingly, in winter, from the
+cold.
+
+"The cooking was done by a large fire on the open hearth, and as his
+basket, where he slept, was in one corner of the kitchen, before morning
+he frequently awoke shivering and blue. The cook was in the habit of
+making the fire, and then returning to her room to finish her toilet.
+
+"One morning, having lighted the pile of kindlings as usual, she hung on
+the tea-kettle and went out, shutting the door carefully behind her.
+
+"Sprite thought this a fine opportunity to warm himself. He jumped from
+his basket, ran to the hearth, and took the lid of the kettle off.
+Cautiously touching the water with the tip of his finger, he found it
+just the right heat for a bath, and sprang in, sitting down, leaving
+only his head above the water.
+
+"This he found exceedingly comfortable for a time; but soon the water
+began to grow hot. He rose, but the air outside was so cold, he quickly
+sat down again. He did this several times, and would, no doubt, have
+been boiled to death, and become a martyr to his own want of pluck and
+firmness in action, had it not been for the timely return of the cook,
+who, seeing him sitting there almost lifeless, seized him by the head
+and pulled him out.
+
+"He was rolled in blankets, and laid in his basket, where he soon
+recovered, and, it is to be hoped, learned a lesson from this hot
+experience, not to take a bath when the water is on the fire."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+KEES STEALING EGGS.
+
+
+When Minnie was nine years of age, she accompanied her parents to a
+menagerie, and there, among other animals, she saw a baboon. She was
+greatly excited by his curious, uncouth manoeuvres, asking twenty
+questions about him, without giving her father time to answer. On their
+way home, she inquired,--
+
+"Are baboons one kind of monkeys, father?"
+
+"Yes, my daughter; and a more disagreeable, disgusting animal I cannot
+conceive of."
+
+"I hope you are not wishing for a baboon to add to your pets," added her
+mother, laughing.
+
+"I don't believe Jacko would get along with that great fellow at all,"
+answered the child. "But, father, will you please tell me something
+more about the curious animals?"
+
+The conversation was here interrupted by seeing that a carriage had
+stopped just in front of their own, and that quite a crowd had gathered
+about some person who seemed to be hurt.
+
+Minnie's sympathies were alive in an instant. She begged her father to
+get out, as possibly he might be of some use.
+
+The driver stopped of his own accord, and inquired what had happened,
+and then they saw that it was a spaniel that was hurt. He had been in
+the road, and not getting out of the way quick enough, the wheel had
+gone over his body.
+
+The young lady who was in the buggy was greatly distressed, from which
+Minnie argued that she was kind to animals, and that they should like
+her.
+
+The owner of the dog held the poor creature in her arms, though it
+seemed to be in convulsions, and wept bitterly as she found it must die.
+
+Mr. Lee, to please his little daughter, waited a few minutes; but he
+found her getting so much excited over the suffering animal, he gave
+John orders to proceed.
+
+During the rest of the drive, she could talk of nothing else, wondering
+whether the spaniel was alive now, or whether the young man in the buggy
+paid for hurting it.
+
+The next day, however, having made up her mind that the poor creature
+must be dead, and his sufferings ended, and having given Tiney many
+admonitions to keep out of the road when carriages were passing, her
+thoughts turned once more to the baboon.
+
+Mr. Lee found in his library a book which gave a short account of the
+animal, which he read to her.
+
+"The baboon is of the monkey tribe, notwithstanding its long, dog-like
+head, flat, compressed cheeks, and strong and projecting teeth. The form
+and position of the eyes, combined with the similarity of the arms and
+hands, give to these creatures a resemblance to humanity as striking as
+it is disgusting."
+
+"Then follows an account," the gentleman went on, "of the peculiarities
+of different kinds of baboons, which you would not understand."
+
+"But can't you tell me something about them yourself, father?"
+
+"I know very little about the creatures, my dear; but I have read that
+they are exceedingly strong, and of a fiery, vicious temper.
+
+"They can never be wholly tamed, and it is only while restraint of the
+severest kind is used, that they can be governed at all. If left to
+their own will, their savage nature resumes its sway, and their actions
+are cruel, destructive, and disgusting."
+
+"I saw the man at the menagerie giving them apples," said Minnie; "but
+he did not give them any meat all the time I was there."
+
+"No; they subsist exclusively on fruits, seeds, and other vegetable
+matter. In the countries where they live, especially near the Cape of
+Good Hope, the inhabitants chase them with dogs and guns in order to
+destroy them, on account of the ravages they commit in the fields and
+gardens. It is said that they make a very obstinate resistance to the
+dogs, and often have fierce battles with them; but they greatly fear the
+gun.
+
+"As the baboon grows older, instead of becoming better, his rage
+increases, so that the slightest cause will provoke him to terrible
+fury."
+
+"Is that all you know about them?"
+
+"Why, Minnie, in order to satisfy you, any one must become a walking
+encyclopaedia. What other question have you to ask?"
+
+"Why, they must have something to eat, and how are they to get it unless
+they go into gardens?"
+
+Mr. Lee laughed aloud. "I rather think I should soon convince them they
+were not to enter my garden," he said, emphatically. "But seriously,
+they descend in vast numbers upon the orchards of fruit, destroying, in
+a few hours, the work of months, or even of years. In these excursions,
+they move on a concerted plan, placing sentinels on commanding spots, to
+give notice of the approach of an enemy. As soon as he perceives danger,
+the sentinel gives a loud yell, and then the whole troop rush away with
+the greatest speed, cramming the fruit which they have gathered into
+their cheek pouches."
+
+Minnie looked so much disappointed when he ceased speaking, that her
+mother said, "I read somewhere an account of a baboon that was named
+Kees, who was the best of his kind that I ever heard of."
+
+"Yes, that was quite an interesting story, if you can call it to mind,"
+said the gentleman, rising.
+
+"It was in a book of travels in Africa," the lady went on. "The
+traveller, whose name was Le Vaillant, took Kees through all his
+journey, and the creature really made himself very useful. As a
+sentinel, he was better than any of the dogs. Indeed, so quick was his
+sense of danger, that he often gave notice of the approach of beasts of
+prey, when every thing was apparently secure.
+
+"There was another way in which Kees made himself useful. Whenever they
+came across any fruits or roots with which the Hottentots were
+unacquainted, they waited to see whether Kees would taste them. If he
+threw them down, the traveller concluded they were poisonous or
+disagreeable, and left them untasted.
+
+"Le Vaillant used to hunt, and frequently took Kees with him on these
+excursions. The poor fellow understood the preparations making for the
+sport, and when his master signified his consent that he should go, he
+showed his joy in the most lively manner. On the way, he would dance
+about, and then run up into the trees to search for gum, of which he was
+very fond.
+
+"I recall one amusing trick of Kees," said the lady, laughing, "which
+pleased me much when I read it. He sometimes found honey in the hollows
+of trees, and also a kind of root of which he was very fond, both of
+which his master insisted on sharing with him. On such occasions, he
+would run away with his treasure, or hide it in his pouches, or eat it
+as fast as possible, before Le Vaillant could have time to reach him.
+
+"These roots were very difficult to pull from the ground. Kees' manner
+of doing it was this. He would seize the top of the root with his strong
+teeth, and then, planting himself firmly against the sod, drew himself
+gradually back, which forced it from the earth. If it proved stubborn,
+while he still held it in his teeth he threw himself heels over head,
+which gave such a concussion to the root that it never failed to come
+out.
+
+"Another habit that Kees had was very curious. He sometimes grew tired
+with the long marches, and then he would jump on the back of one of the
+dogs, and oblige it to carry him whole hours. At last the dogs grew
+weary of this, and one of them determined not to be pressed into
+service. He now adopted an ingenious artifice. As soon as Kees leaped on
+his back, he stood still, and let the train pass without moving from the
+spot. Kees sat quiet, determined that the dog should carry him, until
+the party were almost out of sight, and then they both ran in great
+haste to overtake their master.
+
+"Kees established a kind of authority over the dogs. They were
+accustomed to his voice, and in general obeyed without hesitation the
+slightest motions by which he communicated his orders, taking their
+places about the tent or carriage, as he directed them. If any of them
+came too near him when he was eating, he gave them a box on the ear,
+and thus compelled them to retire to a respectful distance."
+
+"Why, mother, I think Kees was a very good animal, indeed," said Minnie,
+with considerable warmth.
+
+"I have told you the best traits of his character," she answered,
+smiling. "He was, greatly to his master's sorrow, an incurable thief. He
+could not be left alone for a moment with any kind of food. He
+understood perfectly how to loose the strings of a basket, or to take
+the cork from a bottle. He was very fond of milk, and would drink it
+whenever he had a chance. He was whipped repeatedly for these
+misdemeanors, but the punishment did him no good.
+
+"Le Vaillant was accustomed to have eggs for his breakfast; but his
+servants complained one morning there were none to be had. Whenever any
+thing was amiss, the fault was always laid to Kees, who, indeed,
+generally deserved it. The gentleman determined to watch him.
+
+"The next morning, hearing the cackling of a hen, he started for the
+place; but found Kees had been before him, and nothing remained but the
+broken shell. Having caught him in his pilfering, his master gave him a
+severe beating; but he was soon at his old habit again, and the
+gentleman was obliged to train one of his dogs to run for the egg as
+soon as it was laid, before he could enjoy his favorite repast.
+
+"One day, Le Vaillant was eating his dinner, when he heard the voice of
+a bird, with which he was not acquainted. Leaving the beans he had
+carefully prepared for himself on his plate, he seized his gun, and ran
+out of the tent. In a short time he returned, with the bird in his hand,
+but found not a bean left, and Kees missing.
+
+"When he had been stealing, the baboon often staid out of sight for some
+hours; but, this time, he hid himself for several days. They searched
+every where for him, but in vain, till his master feared he had really
+deserted them. On the third day, one of the men, who had gone to a
+distance for water, saw him hiding in a tree. Le Vaillant went out and
+spoke to him, but he knew he had deserved punishment, and he would not
+come down; so that, at last, his master had to go up the tree and take
+him."
+
+"And was he whipped, mother?"
+
+"No; he was forgiven that time, as he seemed so penitent. There is only
+one thing more I can remember about him. An officer who was visiting Le
+Vaillant, wishing to try the affection of the baboon for his master,
+pretended to strike him. Kees flew into a violent rage, and from that
+time could never endure the sight of the officer. If he only saw him at
+a distance, he ground his teeth, and used every endeavor to fly at him;
+and had he not been chained, he would speedily have revenged the
+insult."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "Nature is man's best teacher. She unfolds
+    Her treasures to his search, unseals his eye,
+    Illumes his mind, and purifies his heart,--
+    An influence breathes from all the sights and sounds
+    Of her existence; she is wisdom's self."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "There's not a plant that springeth
+      But bears some good to earth;
+    There's not a life but bringeth
+      Its store of harmless mirth;
+    The dusty wayside clover
+      Has honey in her cells,--
+    The wild bee, humming over,
+      Her tale of pleasure tells.
+    The osiers, o'er the fountain,
+      Keep cool the water's breast,
+    And on the roughest mountain
+      The softest moss is pressed.
+    Thus holy Nature teaches
+      The worth of blessings small;
+    That Love pervades, and reaches,
+      And forms the bliss of all."
+
+
+
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.
+
+16mo.
+
+FOR BOYS.
+
+  Vol.   I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN.
+   "    II. PLAY AND STUDY.
+   "   III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER.
+   "    IV. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER.
+
+FOR GIRLS.
+
+  Vol.   I. TRYING TO BE USEFUL.
+   "    II. LITTLE AGNES.
+   "   III. I'LL TRY.
+   "    IV. ART AND ARTLESSNESS.
+
+
+
+
+                         MINNIE'S PET CAT.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+                       MINNIE'S PET PARROT.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+                         MINNIE'S PET DOG.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+                        MINNIE'S PET LAMB.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+                       MINNIE'S PET HORSE.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+The following typographical errors were corrected:
+
+Page  Error
+73    "good morning," changed to 'good morning,'
+112   pet monkey." changed to pet monkey.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Minnie's Pet Monkey, by Madeline Leslie
+
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+[Illustration: BULL RUN.]
+
+
+
+THE SOCK STORIES,
+
+BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.
+
+RED, WHITE, AND BLUE SOCKS.
+
+Part Second.
+
+BEING
+
+THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SERIES.
+
+BY
+
+"AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER,
+
+THE AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL."
+
+          NEW YORK:
+          LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST.
+          1863.
+
+
+
+
+  ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
+  S. L. BARROW,
+  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
+    for the
+  Southern District of New York.
+
+  JOHN F. TROW,
+  PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER,
+  50 Greene Street, New York.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
+
+
+                                                 PAGE
+
+  COLONEL FREDDY; OR, THE MARCH AND ENCAMPMENT
+      OF THE DASHAHED ZOUAVES,
+
+  CHAP. I.--BELLIGERENT POWERS,                     5
+
+       II.--BULL RUN,                              30
+
+      III.--BEFORE MONTEREY,                       50
+
+      IV.--A GRAND REVIEW,                         87
+
+       V.--"HOME! SWEET HOME!"                    111
+
+  CONCLUSION,                                     125
+
+
+
+
+COLONEL FREDDY;
+
+OR,
+
+THE MARCH AND ENCAMPMENT OF THE DASHAHED ZOUAVES.
+
+PART II.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+BELLIGERENT POWERS.
+
+
+TUESDAY morning dawned "as clear as a bell," as an old lady once said,
+and the Dashahed Zouaves, if not exactly up with the sun, were awake and
+stirring at a much earlier hour than usual; and after a rather more
+careful washing and brushing than soldiers usually indulge in,
+assembled on the lawn, looking as bright as their own buttons.
+
+"What fun it is to be soldiers!" cried a little lisping fellow, one of
+the privates. "I only wish thome Southerners would come along now, and
+you'd thee how I'd _thmash_ 'em."
+
+"Bravo, Louie!" said Harry, laughing; "I dare say, if we were to go to
+the wars, you'd keep on fighting the battles of your country till you
+were chopped into inch bits!"
+
+"And pickled! I expect to be made Lieutenant-general,
+Commander-in-chief, Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant
+Hamilton at the very least!"
+
+"Pooh! that's nothing to the feats of bravery I intend to perform!"
+cried Peter. "In my first battle I shall capture a 2,000-pound
+columbiad with one hand tied behind me, and carry it home for a paper
+weight!"
+
+"While I'm charging a regiment of mounted infantry single handed, and
+making them throw away their swords, and pistols, and things, and run
+for that 'last ditch' of theirs double quick!" said Will Costar,
+laughing; "but here comes breakfast, I'm happy to say. It strikes me
+camping out makes a fellow awful hungry, as well as no end of brave."
+
+A servant who had been sent from the house with breakfast materials, now
+approached, and the table being laid, the soldiers drew their camp
+stools around it; Colonel Freddy sitting at the head and pouring out
+coffee with great gravity. Everything was going on smoothly enough, when
+Harry tilted the tray on one side, and Charley knocked his elbow on the
+other, and away went the coffee to the very end of the table!
+
+"Charley," exclaimed the Colonel, severely, "what do you mean, sir? I'll
+have you put in arrest if you don't look out!"
+
+"Who'll put me there?"
+
+"Me!" shouted Peter. "I'm the boy to manage refractories. You'll see how
+I will come after you with a sharp stick--bayonet, I mean--and put you
+in arrest like that!" snapping his fingers.
+
+"By the way, when we've caught our rebels, where is the prison to be?"
+asked Jimmy.
+
+"Why, in the smoke house. There's a patent spring bolt on the
+door--father had it fixed the last time we had hams made; and if anybody
+was once in there, they'd never get out in the world, unless they could
+draw themselves fine like a wire and squeeze through the chimney."
+
+"We'll take care to keep out of it, then!" said Charley; "so, Colonel, I
+beg pardon for tilting the biggin--I didn't mean to do it so
+much--really!"
+
+"I, too!" cried Harry; "shake hands, old chap!"
+
+Good-tempered Freddy, always ready to "make up," caught a hand of each
+of his comrades, and breakfast went on amicably.
+
+Now, there lived in the house an old English man servant named Jerry
+Pike. He had formerly been a groom and attendant on Peter's uncle, Major
+Schermerhorn, and volunteered in the army at the time of the war with
+Mexico, that he might follow his dear master, whom he had served and
+loved ever since the Major was a mere boy. He had fought bravely beside
+him in many a hard battle, and, for his gallant conduct, been promoted
+to the rank of sergeant. When the hand of death removed that kind
+master, Mr. Schermerhorn had gladly taken Jerry to his own house, and
+promised him that should be his home as long as he lived. So now, like
+a gallant old war horse, who has a fresh green paddock, and lives in
+clover in his infirm age, Jerry not only stood at ease, but lived at
+ease; and worked or not as he felt disposed.
+
+When breakfast was over, Peter suddenly cried out, "I say, fellows,
+suppose we employ ourselves by having a drill! You know old Jerry that I
+told you about? I'll ask him to give us a lesson!"
+
+"Yes! that will be grand fun!" said Freddy. "Do go and find him, Peter;
+I should really like to learn how to drill as the soldiers do; so when
+General McClellan comes along, he'll admire us as much as the English
+General, old Sir Goutby Slogo, did the Seventh Regiment when they
+paraded before the Prince. 'Really, most extraordinary style of marching
+these American troops have,' said he, 'most hequal to the 'Orse Guards
+and the Hoxford Blues coming down Regent street!'"
+
+Meanwhile, Peter had scampered off to the house, and in a short time
+returned with a comical-looking little old man, dressed in faded
+regimentals.
+
+He touched his cap to the boys as he approached, in military style, and
+then drew himself up so very stiff and straight, awaiting their orders,
+that, as Freddy whispered to Tom, it was a perfect wonder he didn't snap
+short off at the waist.
+
+"Now, Jerry," began the Colonel, "we want you to give us a _real_
+drill, you know, just as you used to learn."
+
+"Yes, a regular one!" chimed in the rest; "we'll run for our guns."
+
+"Not fur your fust drill, I reckon, genl'men. You'll do bad enough
+without 'em, hech, hech!" cackled Jerry.
+
+"Very well--come begin then, Jerry!" cried impatient Will.
+
+"Are ye all ready?"
+
+"Yes, and waiting."
+
+"Then, genl'men, FALL IN!" exclaimed the sergeant, the first two words
+being uttered in his natural voice, but the last in an awful sepulchral
+tone, like two raps on the base kettle drum. Off duty, Jerry rather
+resembled a toy soldier, but when in giving his orders he stiffened his
+body, threw up his head, and stuck out his hands, he looked so like the
+wooden figures out of Noah's ark, that the boys burst into a shout of
+laughter.
+
+"Now, genl'men," exclaimed Jerry in a severe tone, "this won't do.
+Silence in the ranks. Squad! 'Shun. The fust manoover I shel teach you,
+genl'men, is the manoover of 'parade rest.' Now look at me, and do as I
+do."
+
+Anybody would have supposed, naturally enough, that to stand at rest
+meant to put your hands in your pockets and lean against a tree; but
+what Jerry did, was to slap his right hand against his left, like a
+torpedo going off, and fold them together; stick out his left foot, lean
+heavily upon his right, and look more like a Dutch doll than ever.
+
+The boys accordingly endeavored to imitate this performance; but when
+they came to try it, a difficulty arose. Whatever might be their usual
+ideas on the subject, there was a diversity of opinion now as to the
+proper foot to be advanced, and a wild uncertainty which was the left
+foot. The new soldiers shuffled backward and forward as if they were
+dancing hornpipes; while Jerry shouted, "Now, then, genl'men, I can't
+hear them hands come together smartly as I'd wished, not like a row of
+Jarsey cider bottles a poppin' one arter the other, but all at once.
+Now, then, SQUAD! 'SHUN!" in a voice of thunder, "Stan' at parade rest!
+No--no--them _lef futs_ adwanced! Well if ever!" And Jerry in his
+indignation gave himself such a thump on his chest that he knocked all
+the breath out of his body, and had to wait some moments before he could
+go on; while the boys, bubbling over with fun, took his scoldings in
+high good humor, and shrieked with laughter at their own ridiculous
+blunders, to the high wrath of their ancient instructor; who was so
+deeply interested and in earnest about his pursuit, that he didn't fail
+to lecture them well for their "insubornation;" which, indeed, nobody
+minded, except Tom Pringle, who, by the by, was from Maryland, and many
+of whose relations were down South. He had been looking rather sulky
+from the beginning of the drill, and now suddenly stepped from his place
+in the ranks, exclaiming, "I won't play! now I vow I won't!"
+
+"Why, Tom, what is the matter? Are you mad at us?" cried half a dozen
+voices at once.
+
+"Humm--" grumbled sulky Tom.
+
+"What say? I can't hear you," said Freddy. "Nonsense, Tom, don't be
+poky, come back and drill."
+
+"I won't! Let us alone, will you?"
+
+"All we want is, let us alone!" chanted Peter. "There, Fred, let him be
+cross if he wants to, we can play without him;" and the boys ran back to
+their places in the ranks, Freddy calling out, "Come fellows, let's try
+that old parade rest once more;" and on Jerry's giving the command, they
+really _did_ do it this time, and were pronounced capable of passing to
+grander evolutions.
+
+The first of these was the turn about so as to fall in ranks; something
+the Dashahed Zouaves hadn't dreamt of before. Get into ranks? Nothing
+could be easier than to stand four in a row, as they had done before;
+but when it came to "right face," most of the soldiers were found to
+have opposite views on the subject, and faced each other, to their
+mutual astonishment. The natural consequence was, that in three seconds
+the regiment was in such a snarl and huddle, that no one could tell
+which rank he belonged to or anything else; so Jerry, perfectly purple
+in the face with shouting, by way of helping them out of the scrape,
+gave them the following remarkable advice: "Squad, 'shun! At th' wud
+'Foz' the rer-rank will stepsmartly off wi' th' leffut, tekkinapesstoth'
+rare--Fo-o-o-res!"
+
+"W-h-a-t!" was the unanimous exclamation.
+
+Jerry repeated his mandate, which, after infinite puzzling (the honest
+sergeant being no assistance whatever), was discovered to mean, "At the
+word 'Fours,' the rear rank will step smartly off with the left foot,
+taking a pace to the rear. Fours!"
+
+This difficulty solved, the next "article on the programme," as Peter
+said, was the command March! or "harch!" according to Jerry.
+
+Out stepped Freddy, confident that he knew this much at any rate,
+followed by the others; but here again that celebrated left foot got
+them into trouble. The right foot _would_ pop out here and there, and as
+sure as it did, at the third step the unlucky Zouave found his leg
+firmly stuck between the ankles of the boy in front; and the "man"
+behind him treading on his heels in a way calculated to aggravate a
+saint; while meantime, the fellows in the rear rank, who were forever
+falling behind while they were staring at their feet to make sure which
+was the left one, _would_ endeavor to make up for it by taking a wide
+straddling step all of a sudden, and encircled the legs of people in
+front; a proceeding which, not being in accordance with "Hardee's
+Tactics," was not received with approbation by Jerry; who, looking at
+them with a sort of deprecating pity, hoarsely said, "Now, Company D!
+wot--wrong agin? fowod squad! wun, too, three, foore; hup! hup! hup!
+hold your head up, Mr. Fred; turn out your toes, Master William, and
+keep STEADY!"
+
+"Goody!" exclaimed Freddy at last, stopping short in the middle of his
+marching, "I can't stand this any longer! There, Jerry, we've had drill
+enough, thank you; I am knocked into a cocked hat, for my part!"
+
+"Very well, sir; it _is_ powerful hot; an' I must say you young genl'men
+have kep' at it steadier nor I expected, a gred deal."
+
+"Thank you, Jerry," said George, laughing, "we shall not forget our
+first drill in a hurry. I can't tell, for my part, which has been most
+bothered, you or we."
+
+"Allers glad to give you a little practice," grinned Jerry, "though
+you'd rive the gizzard out of an army drill sergeant, I'd wenture to
+say, if he hed the teachin' of you. Hech! hech! hech! Mornin', genl'men,
+your sarvent," and Jerry touched his cap to Colonel Freddy and marched
+off chuckling.
+
+As soon as he had made his exit, the boys clustered around Tom, as he
+sat turning his back on as many of the company as possible, and all
+began in a breath, "Now, Tom, do tell us what you're mad at; what have
+we done? please speak!"
+
+"Well, then," shouted Tom, springing up, "I'll tell you what, Frederic
+Jourdain! I won't be ordered around by any old monkey like
+that,"--pointing toward Jerry--"and as for _you_ and _your_ ordering
+about, I won't stand that either! fine as you think yourself; the
+Colonel, indeed!"
+
+"Why, Tom, how can you talk so? can't you play like the rest of us? I'm
+sure I haven't taken advantage of being Colonel to be domineering; have
+I, boys?"
+
+"No, no! not a bit, Fred--never mind what he says!"
+
+"Oh _do_--_don't_ appeal to them! You do that because you daren't say
+outright you mean to have everything your own way. That may be very well
+for them--you're all a parcel of Yankee shopkeepers together--but, I can
+tell you, no Southern _gentleman_ will stand it!"
+
+"North or South, Tom," began Will Costar, pretty sharply, "every
+regiment must have a head--and obey the head. We've chosen Fred our
+Colonel, and you must mind him. When he tells you to drill you've _got
+to do it_!"
+
+Tom wheeled round perfectly furious. "You say that again," he shouted,
+"and I'll leave the regiment! I will. I won't be told by any Northerner
+that I'm his subordinate, and if my State hadn't thought so too, she'd
+never have left the Union."
+
+"What! you dare to say anything against the Union!" cried George,
+turning white with rage; "do you mean to say that you _admire_ the South
+for seceding?"
+
+"Yes! I've a great mind to secede myself, what's more!"
+
+Freddy, as I said, was as sweet-tempered a little fellow as ever lived;
+but he was fairly aroused now. His blue eyes flashed fire; he crimsoned
+to the temples; his fists were clenched--and shouting, "you traitor!"
+like a flash, he sent Tom flying over on his back, with the camp stool
+about his ears.
+
+Up jumped Tom, kicked away the stool, and rushed toward Fred. But the
+others were too quick for him; they seized his arms and dragged him
+back; Peter calling out "No, don't fight him, Colonel; he's not worth
+it; let's have a court martial--that's the way to serve traitors!"
+
+Amid a perfect uproar of rage and contempt for this shameful attack on
+their Colonel, the Zouaves hastily arranged some camp stools for judge
+and jury; and George being chosen judge, the oldest members of the
+regiment took their places around him, and Tom was hauled up before the
+Court.
+
+"Oh stop, pray stop!" cried Freddy at this stage of affairs. "Indeed, I
+forgive him for what he said to me, if he will take back his language
+about the Union. I can't stand _that_."
+
+"You hear what the Colonel says," said George, sternly; "will you
+retract?"
+
+"No, never! if you think I'm going to be frightened into submission to a
+Northerner you're very much mistaken! No Southerner will ever be that!
+and as for your precious Union, I don't care if I say I hope there never
+will be a Union any more."
+
+"Then, by George!" shouted the judge, fairly springing from his seat,
+"You're a traitor, sir! Fellows, whoever is in favor of having this
+secessionist put under arrest, say Aye!"
+
+"Aye! AYE! AYE!" in a perfect roar.
+
+"Does any one object?" Nobody spoke.
+
+"Then I sentence him to be confined in the guard house till he begs
+pardon; Livingston, Costar, and Boorman to take him there."
+
+His captors pounced upon their prisoner with very little ceremony when
+this sentence was pronounced; when Tom, without attempting to escape,
+suddenly commenced striking out at every one he could reach. A grand
+hurley-burley ensued; but before long Tom was overpowered and dragged to
+the smoke, _alias_ guard house; heaping insults and taunts on the Union
+and the regiment all the way. Harry flung open the door of the prison,
+a picturesque little hut built of rough gray stone, and covered with
+Virginia creepers and wild honeysuckles. The others pushed Tom in, and
+Peter, dashing forward, slammed the door on him with a bang. Snap! went
+the bolt, and now nothing earthly could open it again but a Bramah key
+or a gunpowder explosion. Young Secession was fast, and the North
+triumphant. Hurrah!
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+BULL RUN.
+
+
+THEIR first excitement over, the gallant Zouaves couldn't help looking
+at each other in rather a comical way. To be sure, it was very
+aggravating to have their country run down, and themselves assailed
+without leave or license; but they were by no means certain, now they
+came to think of it, that they had acted rightly in doing justice to the
+little rebel in such a summary manner. Peter especially, who had
+proposed the court martial, had an instinctive feeling that if his
+father were to learn the action they had taken, he would scarcely
+consider it to tally with the exercise of strict politeness to company.
+In short, without a word said, there was a tacit understanding in the
+corps that this was an affair to be kept profoundly secret.
+
+While they were still silently revolving this delicate question, little
+Louie Hamilton suddenly started violently, exclaiming, "Only listen a
+moment, felloth! what a strange noithe! It sounds like thome wild
+beast!"
+
+"Noise? I don't hear any," said Freddy; "yes I do, though--like
+something trampling the bushes!"
+
+"There's nothing worse than four cows and a house dog about our place,"
+said Peter; "but what that is I don't know--hush!"
+
+The boys listened with all their ears and elbows, and nearly stared
+themselves blind looking around to see what was the matter. They had not
+long to wait, however, for the trampling increased in the wood, a
+curious, low growling was heard, which presently swelled to a roar, and
+in a moment more, an immense brindled bull was seen dashing through the
+locusts, his head down and heels in the air, looking not unlike a great
+wheel-barrow, bellowing at a prodigious rate, and making straight toward
+the place where they stood!
+
+"Murder, what _shall_ we do?" cried Louie, turning deadly pale with
+terror, while the Zouaves, for an instant, appeared perfectly paralyzed.
+
+"Why run! run for your lives!" shouted George, who was the first to
+recover himself. "Peter, you lead the way; take us the shortest cut to
+the house, and--oh!"
+
+Not another word did George utter. He was saving his breath for the
+race. And now, indeed, began a most prodigious "skedaddle;" the boys
+almost flying on ahead, running nearly abreast, and their terrible enemy
+close behind, tearing up the ground with his horns, and galloping like
+an express!
+
+On sped the gallant Zouaves, making off as rapidly from the scene of
+action as their namesakes from Manassas, without pausing to remark
+which way the wind blew, until, at last, they had skirted the grove, and
+were on the straight road for the house. Here Peter stopped a moment,
+"Because some of the men will be near here, perhaps," he pantingly said,
+"and Master Bull will be caught if he ventures after us." Scarcely had
+he spoken, when the furious animal was once more seen, dashing on faster
+than ever, and flaming with rage, till he might have exploded a powder
+mill! Now for a last effort! One determined burst over the smooth road,
+and they are safe in the house!
+
+Little Louie, who was only nine years old, and the youngest of the
+party, had grasped hold of Freddy's hand when they first started; and
+been half pulled along by him so far; but now that safety was close at
+hand, he suddenly sank to the ground, moaning out, "Oh Fred, you must go
+on and leave me; I can't run any more. Oh mamma!"
+
+"No, no, Louie! don't do so!" cried Freddy. "Get up, little man! why,
+you can't think I would leave you, surely?" and, stooping down, the
+brave little fellow caught Louie up in his arms, and, thus burdened,
+tried to run on toward the house.
+
+The rest of the boys were now far beyond them; and had just placed their
+feet upon the doorstone, when a loud shout of "help!" made them turn
+round; and there was Freddy, with Louie in his arms, staggering up the
+road, the horns of the bull within a yard of his side!
+
+Like a flash of lightning, Will snatched up a large rake which one of
+the men had left lying on the grass, and dashed down the road. There is
+one minute to spare, just one! but in that minute Will has reached the
+spot, and launching his weapon, the iron points descend heavily on the
+animal's head.
+
+The bull, rather aghast at this reception, which did not appear to be at
+all to his taste, seemed to hesitate a moment whether to charge his
+adversary or not; then, with a low growl of baffled fury, he slowly
+turned away, and trotted off toward the wood.
+
+The help had not come a minute too soon; for Freddy, his sensitive
+organization completely overwrought by the events of the morning and his
+narrow escape from death, had fallen fainting to the ground; his hands
+still clenched in the folds of little Louie's jacket. Will instantly
+raised him, when he saw that all danger was over, and he and some of the
+others, who had come crowding down the road, very gently and quickly
+carried the insensible boy to the house, and laid him on the lounge in
+the library; while Peter ran for the housekeeper to aid in bringing him
+to life.
+
+Good Mrs. Lockitt hurried up stairs as fast as she could with camphor,
+ice water, and everything else she could think of good for fainting.
+
+"Mrs. Lockitt, where is papa?" asked Peter, as he ran on beside her.
+
+"Gone to New York, Master Peter," she replied; "I don't think he will be
+home before dinner time."
+
+Our little scapegrace breathed more freely; at least there were a few
+hours' safety from detection, and he reentered the library feeling
+considerably relieved.
+
+There lay Colonel Freddy, his face white as death; one little hand
+hanging lax and pulseless over the side of the lounge, and the ruffled
+shirt thrust aside from the broad, snowy chest. Harry stood over him,
+fanning his forehead; while poor Louie was crouched in a corner,
+sobbing as though his heart would break, and the others stood looking on
+as if they did not know what to do with themselves.
+
+Mrs. Lockitt hastened to apply her remedies; and soon a faint color came
+back to the cheek, and with a long sigh, the great blue eyes opened once
+more, and the little patient murmured, "Where am I?"
+
+"Oh, then he's not killed, after all!" cried Louie, running to his side.
+"Dear, dear Freddy! how glad I am you have come to life again!"
+
+This funny little speech made even Freddy laugh, and then Mrs. Lockitt
+said, "But, Master Peter, you have not told me yet how it happened that
+Master Frederic got in such a way."
+
+The eyes of the whole party became round and saucer-y at once; as, all
+talking together, they began the history of their fearful adventure.
+Mrs. Lockitt's wiry false curls would certainly have dropped off with
+astonishment if they hadn't been sewed fast to her cap, and she fairly
+wiped her eyes on her spectacle case, which she had taken out of her
+pocket instead of her handkerchief, as they described Freddy's noble
+effort to save his helpless companion without thinking of himself. When
+the narrative was brought to a close, she could only exclaim, "Well,
+Master Freddy, you are a little angel, sure enough! and Master William
+is as brave as a lion. To think of his stopping that great creetur, to
+be sure! Wherever in the world it came from is the mystery." So saying,
+Mrs. Lockitt bustled out of the room, and after she had gone, there was
+a very serious and grateful talk among the elder boys about the escape
+they had had, and a sincere thankfulness to God for having preserved
+their lives.
+
+The puzzle now was, how they were to return to the camp, where poor Tom
+had been in captivity all this time. It was certainly necessary to get
+back--but then the bull! While they were yet deliberating on the horns
+of this dilemma, the library door suddenly opened, and in walked--Mr.
+Schermerhorn!
+
+"Why, boys!" he exclaimed, "how do you come to be here? Fred, what's the
+matter? you look as pale as a ghost!"
+
+There was general silence for a moment; but these boys had been taught
+by pious parents to speak the truth always, whatever came of it. Ah!
+that is the right principle to go on, dear children; TELL THE TRUTH when
+you have done anything wrong, even if you are sure of being punished
+when that truth is known.
+
+So George, as the eldest, with one brave look at his comrades, frankly
+related everything that had happened; beginning at the quarrel with
+Tom, down to the escape from the bull. To describe the varied expression
+of his auditor's face between delight and vexation, would require a
+painter; and when George at last said, "Do you think we deserve to be
+punished, sir? or have we paid well enough already for our court
+martial?" Mr. Schermerhorn exclaimed, trying to appear highly incensed,
+yet scarcely able to help smiling:
+
+"I declare I hardly know! I certainly am terribly angry with you. How
+dare you treat a young gentleman so on my place? answer me that, you
+scapegraces! It is pretty plain who is at the bottom of all this--Peter
+dares not look at me, I perceive. At the same time, I am rather glad
+that Master Tom has been taught what to expect if he runs down the
+Union--it will probably save him from turning traitor any more, though
+you were not the proper persons to pass sentence on him. As for our
+plucky little Colonel here--shake hands, Freddy! you have acted like a
+hero! and for your sake I excuse the court martial. Now, let us see what
+has become of the bull, and then go to the release of our friend Tom. He
+must be thoroughly repentant for his misdeeds by this time."
+
+Mr. Schermerhorn accordingly gave orders that the bull should be hunted
+up and secured, until his master should be discovered; so that the
+Zouaves might be safe from his attacks hereafter. If any of our readers
+feel an interest in the fate of this charming animal, they are informed
+that he was, with great difficulty, hunted into the stables; and before
+evening taken away by his master, the farmer from whom he had strayed.
+
+Leaving the others to await his capture, let us return to Tom. He had
+not been ten minutes in the smoke house before his wrath began to cool,
+and he would have given sixpence for any way of getting out but by
+begging pardon. That was a little too much just yet, and Tom stamped
+with rage and shook the door; which resisted his utmost efforts to
+burst. Then came the sounds without, the rushing, trampling steps, the
+furious bellow, and the shout, "Run! run for your lives!" Run! why on
+earth must they? What had happened? and especially what would become of
+him left alone there, with this unseen enemy perhaps coming at him next.
+He hunted in vain in every direction for some cranny to peep through;
+and if it had been possible, would have squeezed his head up the
+chimney. He shouted for help, but nobody heard him; they were all too
+frightened for that. He could hear them crunching along the road,
+presently; another cry, and then all was still.
+
+"What shall I do?" thought poor Tom. "Oh, where have they gone to?
+Please let me out, Freddy! do forgive me, boys! I'll f-fight for the
+Union as m-much as you like! oh! oh!" and at last--must it be
+confessed?--the gallant Secesh finished by bursting out crying!
+
+Time passed on--of course seeming doubly long to the prisoner--and still
+the boys did not return. Tom cried till he could cry no more; sniffling
+desperately, and rubbing his nose violently up in the air--a proceeding
+which did not ameliorate its natural bent in that direction. He really
+felt thoroughly sorry, and quite ready to beg pardon as soon as the boys
+should return; particularly as they had forgotten to provide the captive
+with even the traditional bread and water, and dinner-time was close at
+hand. While he was yet struggling between repentance and stomachache,
+the welcome sound of their voices was heard. They came nearer, and then
+a key was hastily applied to the fastenings of the door, and it flew
+open, disclosing the Zouaves, with Freddy at the head, and Mr.
+Schermerhorn bringing up the rear.
+
+Tom hung back a moment yet; then with a sudden impulse he walked toward
+Freddy, saying, "I beg your pardon, Colonel; please forgive me for
+insulting you; and as for the flag"--and without another word, Tom ran
+toward the flag staff, and catching the long folds of the banner in both
+hands, pressed them to his lips.
+
+"The chivalry forever!" said Mr. Schermerhorn, smiling. "That's right,
+Tom! bless the old banner! it is your safeguard, and your countrymen's
+too, if they would only believe it. Go and shake hands with him, boys;
+he is in his right place now, and if ever you are tempted to quarrel
+again, I am sure North and South will both remember
+
+                            "BULL RUN!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+BEFORE MONTEREY.
+
+
+IT is not necessary to describe the particular proceedings of the
+Dashahed Zouaves during every day of their camp life. They chattered,
+played, drilled, quarrelled a little once in a while, and made it up
+again, eat and slept considerably, and grew sunburnt to an astonishing
+degree.
+
+It was Thursday morning, the fourth of their delightful days in camp.
+Jerry had been teaching them how to handle a musket and charge
+bayonets, until they were quite excited, and rather put out that there
+was no enemy to practise on but the grasshoppers. At length, when they
+had tried everything that was to be done, Harry exclaimed, "I wish,
+Jerry, you would tell us a story about the wars! Something real
+splendid, now; perfectly crammed with Indians and scalps and awful
+battles and elegant Mexican palaces full of diamonds and gold saucepans
+and lovely Spanish girls carried off by the hair of their heads!"
+
+This flourishing rigmarole, which Harry delivered regardless of stops,
+made the boys shout with laughter.
+
+"You'd better tell the story yourself, since you know so much about
+it!" said Tom.
+
+"I allow you've never been in Mexico, sir," said Jerry, grinning. "I
+doubt but thar's palisses somewhar in Mexico, but I and my mates hev
+been thar, an' _we_ never seed none o' 'em. No, Master Harry, I can't
+tell ye sich stories as that, but I do mind a thing what happened on the
+field afore Monterey."
+
+The boys, delightedly exclaiming, "A story! a story! hurrah!" drew their
+camp stools around him; and Jerry, after slowly rubbing his hand round
+and round over his bristling chin, while he considered what to say
+first, began his story as follows:
+
+
+JERRY'S STORY.
+
+          "It wor a Sunday night, young genl'men, the 21st
+          of September, and powerful hot. We had been
+          fightin' like mad, wi' not a moment's rest, all
+          day, an' now at last wor under the canwas, they of
+          us as wor left alive, a tryin' to sleep. The
+          skeeters buzzed aroun' wonderful thick, and the
+          groun' aneath our feet wor like red-hot tin
+          plates, wi' the sun burnin' an blisterin' down. At
+          last my mate Bill says, says he, 'Jerry, my mate,
+          hang me ef I can stan' this any longer. Let you
+          an' me get up an' see ef it be cooler
+          out-o'-doors.'
+
+          "I wor tired enough wi' the day's fight, an'
+          worrited, too, wi' a wound in my shoulder; but
+          the tent wor no better nor the open field, an' we
+          got up an' went out. Thar wor no moon, but the sky
+          was wonderful full o' stars, so we could see how
+          we wor stannin' wi' our feet among the bodies o'
+          the poor fellows as had fired their last shot that
+          day. It wor a sight, young genl'men, what would
+          make sich as you sick an' faint to look on; but
+          sogers must larn not to min' it; an' we stood
+          thar, not thinkin' how awful it wor, and yet still
+          an' quiet, too.
+
+          "'Ah, Jerry,' says Bill--he wor a young lad, an'
+          brought up by a pious mother, I allow--'I dunnot
+          like this fightin' on the Sabba' day. The Lord
+          will not bless our arms, I'm afeard, if we go agin
+          His will so.'
+
+          "I laughed--more shame to me--an' said, 'I'm a
+          sight older nor you, mate, an' I've seed a sight
+          o' wictories got on a Sunday. The better the day,
+          the better the deed, I reckon.'
+
+          "'Well, I don't know,' he says; 'mebbe things is
+          allers mixed in time o' war, an' right an' wrong
+          change sides a' purpose to suit them as wants
+          battle an' tumult to be ragin'; but it don't go
+          wi' my grain, noways.'
+
+          "I hadn't experienced a change o' heart then, as I
+          did arterward, bless the Lord! an' I hardly
+          unnerstood what he said. While we wor a stannin'
+          there, all to onct too dark figgers kim a creepin'
+          over the field to'ard the Major's tent. 'Look
+          thar, Jerry,' whispered Bill, kind o' startin'
+          like, 'thar's some of them rascally Mexicans.' I
+          looked at 'em wi'out sayin' a wured, an' then I
+          went back to the tent fur my six-shooter--Bill
+          arter me;--fur ef it ain't the dooty o' every
+          Christian to extarminate them warmints o'
+          Mexicans, I'll be drummed out of the army
+          to-morrer.
+
+          "Wall, young genl'men--we tuck our pistols, and
+          slow and quiet we moved to whar we seed the two
+          Greasers, as they call 'em. On they kim, creepin'
+          to'ard my Major's tent, an' at las' one o' 'em
+          raised the canwas a bit. Bill levelled his
+          rewolver in a wink, an' fired. You shud ha' seed
+          how they tuck to their heels! yelling all the way,
+          till wun o' em' dropped. The other didn't stop,
+          but just pulled ahead. I fired arter him wi'out
+          touching him; but the noise woke the Major, an'
+          when he hearn wot the matter wor, he ordered the
+          alarm to be sounded an' the men turned out. 'It's
+          a 'buscade to catch us,' he says, 'an' I'm fur
+          being fust on the field.'
+
+          "Bill an' I buckled on our cartridge boxes, caught
+          up our muskets, an' were soon in the ranks. On we
+          marched, stiddy an' swift, to the enemy's
+          fortifications; an' wen we were six hundred yards
+          distant, kim the command, 'Double quick.' The sky
+          hed clouded up all of a suddent, an' we couldn't
+          see well where we wor, but thar was suthin' afore
+          us like a low, black wall. As we kim nearer, it
+          moved kind o' cautious like, an' when we wor
+          within musket range, wi' a roar like ten thousand
+          divils, they charged forred! Thar wor the flash
+          and crack o' powder, and the ring! ping! o' the
+          bullets, as we power'd our shot on them an' they
+          on us; but not another soun'; cr-r-r-ack went the
+          muskets on every side agin, an' the rascals wor
+          driven back a minnit. 'Charge bayonets!' shouted
+          the Major, wen he seed that. Thar wos a pause; a
+          rush forred; we wor met by the innimy half way;
+          an' then I hearn the awfullest o' created
+          soun's--a man's scream. I looked roun', an' there
+          wos Bill, lying on his face, struck through an'
+          through. Thar wos no time to see to him then, fur
+          the men wor fur ahead o' me, an' I hed to run an'
+          jine the rest.
+
+          "We hed a sharp, quick skirmish o' it--for ef thar
+          is a cowardly critter on the created airth it's a
+          Greaser--an' in less nor half an' hour wor beatin'
+          back to quarters. When all wor quiet agin, I left
+          my tent, an' away to look fur Bill. I sarched an'
+          sarched till my heart were almost broke, an at
+          last I cried out, 'Oh Bill, my mate, whar be you?'
+          an' I hearn a fibble v'ice say, 'Here I be,
+          Jerry!'
+
+          "I swon! I wor gladder nor anything wen I hearn
+          that. I hugged him to my heart, I wor moved so
+          powerful, an' then I tuck him on my back, an' off
+          to camp; werry slow an' patient, fur he were sore
+          wownded, an' the life in him wery low.
+
+          "Wall, young genl'men, I'll not weary you wi' the
+          long hours as dragged by afore mornin'. I med him
+          as snug as I could, and at daybreak we hed him
+          took to the sugeon's tent.
+
+          "I wor on guard all that mornin' an' could not get
+          to my lad; but at last the relief kim roun', an'
+          the man as was to take my place says, says he,
+          'Jerry, my mate, ef I was you I'd go right to the
+          hosp'tl an' stay by poor Bill' (fur they all knew
+          as I sot gret store by him); 'He is werry wild in
+          his head, I hearn, an' the sugeon says as how he
+          can't last long.'
+
+          "Ye may b'lieve how my hairt jumped wen I hearn
+          that. I laid down my gun, an' ran fur the wooden
+          shed, which were all the place they hed fur them
+          as was wownded. An' thar wor Bill--my mate
+          Bill--laying on a blanket spred on the floore, wi'
+          his clothes all on (fur it's a hard bed, an' his
+          own bloody uniform, that a sojer must die in), wi'
+          the corpse o' another poor fellow as had died all
+          alone in the night a'most touching him, an'
+          slopped wi' blood. I moved it fur away all in a
+          trimble o' sorrer, an' kivered it decent like, so
+          as Bill mightn't see it an' get downhearted fur
+          hisself. Then I went an' sot down aside my mate.
+          He didn't know me, no more nor if I wor a
+          stranger; but kept throwin' his arms about, an'
+          moanin' out continual, 'Oh mother! mother! Why
+          don't you come to your boy?'
+
+          "I bust right out crying, I do own, wen I hearn
+          that, an' takin' his han' in mine, I tried to
+          quiet him down a bit; telling him it wor bad fur
+          his wownd to be so res'less (fur every time he
+          tossed, thar kim a little leap o' blood from his
+          breast); an' at last, about foore o'clock in the
+          day, he opened his eyes quite sensible like, an'
+          says to me, he says, 'Dear matey, is that you?
+          Thank you fur coming to see me afore I die.'
+
+          "'No, Bill, don't talk so,' I says, a strivin' to
+          be cheerful like, tho' I seed death in his face,
+          'You'll be well afore long.'
+
+          "'Aye, well in heaven,' he says; and then, arter a
+          minnit, 'Jerry,' he says, 'thar's a little bounty
+          money as belongs to me in my knapsack, an' my
+          month's wages. I want you, wen I am gone, to take
+          it to my mother, an' tell her--'(he wor gaspin'
+          fearful)--'as I died--fightin' fur my country--an'
+          the flag. God bless you, Jerry--you hev been a
+          good frien' to me, an' I knows as you'll do
+          this--an' bid the boys good-by--fur me.'
+
+          "I promised, wi' the tears streamin' down my
+          cheeks; an' then we wor quiet a bit, fur it hurt
+          Bill's breast to talk, an' I could not say a wured
+          fur the choke in my throat. Arter a while he says,
+          'Jerry, won't you sing me the hymn as I taught you
+          aboard the transport? about the Lord our Captin?'
+
+          "I could hardly find v'ice to begin, but it wor
+          Bill's dying wish, an' I made shift to sing as
+          well as I could--
+
+          "'We air marchin' on together
+              To our etarnal rest;
+           Niver askin' why we're ordered--
+             For the Lord He knoweth best.
+           Christ is our Captain!
+             'Forred!' is His word;
+           Ranks all steady, muskets ready,
+             In the army o' the Lord!
+
+          "'Satan's hosts are all aroun' us,
+             An' strive to enter in;
+           But our outworks they are stronger
+             Nor the dark brigades o' sin!
+           Christ is our Fortress!
+             Righteousness our sword;
+           Truth the standard--in the vanguard--
+             O' the army o' the Lord!
+
+          "'Comrads, we air ever fightin'
+             A battle fur the right;
+           Ever on the on'ard movement
+             Fur our home o' peace an' light.
+           Christ is our Leader!
+             Heaven our reward,
+          Comin' nearer, shinin' clearer--
+             In the army o' the Lord!'
+
+          "Arter I hed sung the hymn--an' it wor all I could
+          do to get through--Bill seemed to be a sight
+          easier. He lay still, smilin' like a child on the
+          mother's breast. Pretty soon arter, the Major kim
+          in; an' wen he seed Bill lookin' so peaceful, he
+          says, says he, 'Why, cheer up, my lad! the sugeon
+          sayd as how you wor in a bad way; but you look
+          finely now;'--fur he didn't know it wor the death
+          look coming over him. 'You'll be about soon,'
+          says the Major, 'an' fightin' fur the flag as
+          brave as ever,'
+
+          "Bill didn't say nothing--he seemed to be getting
+          wild agin;--an' looked stupid like at our Major
+          till he hearn the wureds about the flag. Then he
+          caught his breath suddint like, an', afore we
+          could stop him, he had sprang to his feet--shakin'
+          to an' fro like a reed--but as straight as he ever
+          wor on parade; an', his v'ice all hoarse an' full
+          o' death, an' his arm in the air, he shouted,
+          'Aye! God--bless--the--flag! we'll fight fur it
+          till--' an' then we hearn a sort o' snap, an' he
+          fell forred--dead!
+
+          "We buried him that night, I an' my mates. I cut
+          off a lock o' his hair fur his poor mother, afore
+          we put the airth over him; an' giv it to her, wi'
+          poor Bill's money, faithful an' true, wen we kim
+          home. I've lived to be an old man since then, an'
+          see the Major go afore me, as I hoped to sarve
+          till my dyin' day; but Lord willing I shel go
+          next, to win the Salwation as I've fitten for, by
+          Bill's side, a sojer in Christ's army, in the
+          Etarnal Jerusalem!"
+
+The boys took a long breath when Jerry had finished his story, and more
+than one bright eye was filled with tears. The rough words, and plain,
+unpolished manner of the old soldier, only heightened the impression
+made by his story; and as he rose to go away, evidently much moved by
+the painful recollections it excited, there was a hearty, "Thank you,
+sergeant, for your story--it was real good!" Jerry only touched his cap
+to the young soldiers, and marched off hastily, while the boys looked
+after him in respectful silence. But young spirits soon recover from
+gloomy influences, and in a few moments they were all chattering merrily
+again.
+
+"What a pity we must go home Monday!" cried Louie; "I wish we could camp
+out forever! Oh, Freddy, do write a letter to General McClellan, and ask
+him to let us join the army right away! Tell him we'll buy some new
+india-rubber back-bones and stretch ourselves out big directly, if he'll
+only send right on for us!"
+
+"Perhaps he would, if he knew how jolly we can drill already!" said
+Peter, laughing. "I tell you what, boys, the very thing! let's have a
+review before we go home. I'll ask all the boys and girls I know to come
+and look on, and we might have quite a grand entertainment. Won't that
+be splendid? We can march about all over, and fire off the cannons and
+everything! I'm sure father will let us."
+
+"Yes, but how's General McClellan to hear anything about it?" inquired
+practical Louie.
+
+"Why--I don't know," said Peter, rather taken aback by this view of the
+subject. "Well, somehow--never mind, it will be grand fun, and I mean
+to ask my father right away."
+
+"Take me with you?" called a dozen fellows directly. Finally it was
+concluded that it might make more impression on Mr. Schermerhorn's mind,
+if the application came from the regiment in a body; so, running for
+their swords and guns, officers and men found their places in the
+battalion, and the grand procession started on its way--chattering all
+the time, in utter defiance of that "article of war" which forbids
+"talking in the ranks." Just as they were passing the lake, they heard
+carriage wheels crunching on the gravel, and drew up in a long line on
+the other side of the road to let the vehicle pass them; much to the
+astonishment of two pretty young ladies and a sweet little girl, about
+Freddy's age, who were leaning comfortably back in the handsome
+barouche.
+
+"Why, Peter!" exclaimed one of the ladies, "what in the world is all
+this?"
+
+"This!" cried Peter, running up to the carriage, "why, these are the
+Dashahed Zouaves, Miss Carlton. We have been in camp ever since Monday.
+Good morning, Miss Jessie," to the little girl on the front seat, who
+was looking on with deep interest.
+
+"Oh, to be sure, I remember," said Miss Carlton, laughing; "come,
+introduce the Zouaves, Peter; we are wild to know them!"
+
+The boys clustered eagerly about the carriage and a lively chat took
+place. The Zouaves, some blushing and bashful, others frank and
+confident, and all desperately in love already with pretty little
+Jessie, related in high glee their adventures--except the celebrated
+court martial--and enlarged glowingly upon the all-important subject of
+the grand review.
+
+Colonel Freddy, of course, played a prominent part in all this, and with
+his handsome face, bright eyes, and frank, gentlemanly ways, needed only
+those poor lost curls to be a perfect picture of a soldier. He chattered
+away with Miss Lucy, the second sister, and obtained her special promise
+that she would plead their cause with Mr. Schermerhorn in case the
+united petitions of the corps should fail. The young ladies did not know
+of Mrs. Schermerhorn's departure, but Freddy and Peter together coaxed
+them to come up to the house "anyhow." The carriage was accordingly
+taken into the procession, and followed it meekly to the house; the
+Zouaves insisting on being escort, much to the terror of the young
+ladies; who were in constant apprehension that the rear rank and the
+horses might come to kicks--not to say blows--and the embarrassment of
+the coachman; who, as they were constantly stopping unexpectedly to turn
+round and talk, didn't know "where to have them," as the saying is.
+However, they reached their destination in safety before long, and
+found Mr. Schermerhorn seated on the piazza. He hastened forward to meet
+them, with the cordial greeting of an old friend.
+
+"Well, old bachelor," said Miss Carlton, gayly, as the young ladies
+ascended the steps, "you see we have come to visit you in state, with
+the military escort befitting patriotic young ladies who have four
+brothers on the Potomac. What has become of Madame, please?"
+
+"Gone to Niagara and left me a 'lone lorn creetur;'" said Mr.
+Schermerhorn, laughing. "Basely deserted me when my farming couldn't be
+left. But how am I to account for the presence of the military,
+mademoiselle?"
+
+"Really, I beg their pardons," exclaimed Miss Carlton. "They have come
+on a special deputation to you, Mr. Schermerhorn, so pray don't let us
+interrupt business."
+
+Thus apostrophised, the boys scampered eagerly up the steps; and Freddy,
+a little bashful, but looking as bright as a button, delivered the
+following brief oration: "Mr. Schermerhorn: I want--that is, the boys
+want--I mean we all want--to have a grand review on Saturday, and ask
+our friends to look on. Will you let us do it, please?"
+
+"Certainly, with the greatest pleasure!" replied Mr. Schermerhorn,
+smiling; "but what will become of you good people when I tell you that
+I have just received a letter from Mrs. Schermerhorn, asking me to join
+her this week instead of next, and bring Peter with me."
+
+"Oh! father, please let me stay!" interrupted Peter; "can't you tell ma
+I've joined the army for the war? We all want to stay like everything!"
+
+"And forage for yourselves?" said his father, laughing. "No, the army
+must give you up, and lose a valuable member, Master Peter; but just
+have the goodness to listen a moment. The review shall take place, but
+as the camp will have to break up on Saturday instead of Monday, as I
+had intended, the performances must come off to-morrow. Does that suit
+your ideas?"
+
+The boys gave a delighted consent to this arrangement, and now the only
+thing which dampened their enjoyment was the prospect of such a speedy
+end being put to their camp life. "Confound it! what was the fun for a
+fellow to be poked into a stupid watering place, where he must bother to
+keep his hair parted down the middle, and a clean collar stiff enough to
+choke him on from morning till night?" as Tom indignantly remarked to
+George and Will the same evening. "The fact is, this sort of thing is
+_the_ thing for a _man_ after all!" an opinion in which the other _men_
+fully concurred.
+
+But let us return to the piazza, where we have left the party. After a
+few moments more spent in chatting with Mr. Schermerhorn, it was decided
+to accept Colonel Freddy's polite invitation, which he gave with such a
+bright little bow, to inspect the camp. You may be sure it was in
+apple-pie order, for Jerry, who had taken the Zouaves under his special
+charge, insisted on their keeping it in such a state of neatness as only
+a soldier ever achieved. The party made an extremely picturesque
+group--the gay uniforms of the Zouaves, and light summer dresses of the
+ladies, charmingly relieved against the background of trees; while Mr.
+Schermerhorn's stately six feet, and somewhat portly proportions, quite
+reminded one of General Scott; especially among such a small army; in
+which George alone quite came up to the regulation "63 inches."
+
+Little Jessie ran hither and thither, surrounded by a crowd of adorers,
+who would have given their brightest buttons, every "man" of them, to be
+the most entertaining fellow of the corps. They showed her the battery
+and the stacks of shining guns--made to stand up by Jerry in a wonderful
+fashion that the boys never could hope to attain--the inside of all the
+tents, and the smoke guard house (Tom couldn't help a blush as he looked
+in); and finally, as a parting compliment (which, let me tell you, is
+the greatest, in a boy's estimation, that can possibly be paid), Freddy
+made her a present of his very largest and most gorgeous "glass agates;"
+one of which was all the colors of the rainbow, and the other
+patriotically adorned with the Stars and Stripes in enamel. Peter
+climbed to the top of the tallest cherry tree, and brought her down a
+bough at least a yard and a half long, crammed with "ox hearts;" Harry
+eagerly offered to make any number of "stunning baskets" out of the
+stones, and in short there never was such a belle seen before.
+
+"Oh, a'int she jolly!" was the ruling opinion among the Zouaves. A
+private remark was also circulated to the effect that "Miss Jessie was
+stunningly pretty."
+
+The young ladies at last said good-by to the camp; promising faithfully
+to send all the visitors they could to the grand review, and drove off
+highly entertained with their visit. Mr. Schermerhorn decided to take
+the afternoon boat for the city and return early Friday morning, and the
+boys, left to themselves, began to think of dinner, as it was two
+o'clock. A brisk discussion was kept up all dinner time you may be sure,
+concerning the event to come off on the morrow.
+
+"I should like to know, for my part, what we do in a review," said
+Jimmy, balancing his fork artistically on the end of his finger, and
+looking solemnly round the table.
+
+"Why, show off everything we know!" said Charley Spicer. "March about,
+and form into ranks and columns, and all that first, then do charming
+"parade rest," "'der humps!" and the rest of it; and finish off by
+firing off our guns, and showing how we can't hit anything by any
+possibility!"
+
+"But these guns won't fire off!" objected Jimmy.
+
+"Well, the cannon then!"
+
+"But I'm sure father won't let us have any powder," said Peter
+disconsolately. "You can't think how I burnt the end of my nose last
+Fourth with powder! It was so sore I couldn't blow it for a week!"
+
+The boys all burst out laughing at this dreadful disaster, and George
+said, "You weren't lighting it with the end of your nose, were you?"
+
+"No; but I was stooping over, charging one of my cannon, and I dropped
+the 'punk' right in the muzzle somehow, and, would you believe it, the
+nasty thing went off and burnt my nose! and father said I shouldn't play
+with powder any more, because I might have put out my eyes."
+
+"Well, we must take it out in marching, then," said Freddy, with a
+tremendous sigh.
+
+"No, hold on; I'll tell you what we can do!" cried Tom, eagerly. "I have
+some 'double headers' left from the Fourth; we might fire them out of
+the cannon; they make noise enough, I'm sure. I'll write to my mother
+this afternoon and get them."
+
+The boys couldn't help being struck with the generosity of this offer,
+coming from Tom after their late rather unkind treatment of him; and the
+older ones especially were very particular to thank him for his present.
+As soon as dinner was over, he started for the house to ask Mr.
+Schermerhorn to carry his message. As he hurried along the road, his
+bright black eyes sparkling with the happiness of doing a good action,
+he heard trotting steps behind him, felt an arm stealing round his neck,
+schoolboy fashion, and there was Freddy.
+
+"I ran after you all the way," he pantingly said. "I want to tell you,
+dear Tom, how much we are obliged to you for giving us your crackers,
+and how sorry we are that we acted so rudely to you the other day.
+Please forgive us; we all like you so much, and we would feel as mean as
+anything to take your present without begging pardon. George, Peter, and
+I feel truly ashamed of ourselves every time we think of that abominable
+court martial."
+
+"There, old fellow, don't say a word more about it!" was the hearty
+response; and Tom threw his arm affectionately about his companion. "It
+was my fault, Freddy, and all because I was mad at poor old Jerry; how
+silly! I was sorry for what I said right afterward."
+
+"Then we are friends again?" cried Freddy, joyfully.
+
+"Yes; I'll like you as long as I live! and ever so much longer." And so
+we will leave the two on their walk to the house, and close this
+abominably long chapter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+A GRAND REVIEW.
+
+
+THERE are really scarcely words enough in the dictionary properly to
+describe the immense amount of drill got through with by the Dashahed
+Zouaves between three o'clock that afternoon and twelve, noon, of the
+following day. This Friday afternoon was going to be memorable in
+history for one of the most splendid reviews on record. They almost ran
+poor old Jerry off his legs in their eagerness to go over every possible
+variety of exercise known to "Hardee's Tactics," and nearly dislocated
+their shoulder blades trying to waggle their elbows backward and forward
+all at once when they went at "double quick;" at the same time keeping
+the other arm immovably pinioned to their sides. Then that wonderful
+operation of stacking the rebellious guns, which obstinately clattered
+down nine times and a half out of ten, had to be gone through with, and
+a special understanding promulgated in the corps as to when Jerry's
+"'der arms!" meant "shoulder arms," and when "order arms" (or bringing
+all the muskets down together with a bang); and, in short, there never
+was such a busy time seen in camp before.
+
+Friday morning dawned, if possible, still more splendidly than any of
+the preceding days, with a cool, refreshing breeze, just enough snowy
+clouds in the sky to keep off the fiery summer heat in a measure, and
+not a headache nor a heartache among the Zouaves to mar the pleasure of
+the day. The review was to come off at four o'clock, when the July sun
+would be somewhat diminished in warmth, and from some hints that Jerry
+let fall, Mrs. Lockitt, and the fat cook, Mrs. Mincemeat, were holding
+high council up at the house, over a certain collation to be partaken of
+at the end of the entertainments.
+
+As the day wore on the excitement of our friends the Zouaves increased.
+They could hardly either eat their dinners, or sit down for more than a
+moment at a time; and when, about three o'clock, Mr. Schermerhorn
+entered the busy little camp, he was surrounded directly with a crowd of
+eager questioners, all talking at once, and making as much noise as a
+colony of rooks.
+
+"Patience, patience, my good friends!" laughed Mr. Schermerhorn, holding
+up a finger for silence. "Every one in turn. Tom, here are your 'double
+headers,' with love from your mother. Fred, I saw your father to-day,
+and they are all coming down to the review. George, here is a note left
+for you in my box at the Post Office, and Dashahed Zouaves in
+general--I have one piece of advice to give you. Get dressed quietly,
+and then sit down and rest yourselves. You will be tired out by the end
+of the afternoon, at all events; so don't frisk about more than you can
+help at present;" and Mr. Schermerhorn left the camp; while the boys,
+under strong pressure of Jerry, and the distant notes of a band which
+suddenly began to make itself heard, dressed themselves as nicely as
+they could, and sat down with heroic determination to wait for four
+o'clock.
+
+Presently, carriages began to crunch over the gravel road one after
+another, filled with merry children, and not a few grown people besides.
+Mr. and Mrs. Jourdain, with Bella, were among the first to arrive; and
+soon after the Carltons' barouche drove up. Jessie, for some unknown
+reason, was full of half nervous glee, and broke into innumerable little
+trilling laughs when any one spoke to her. A sheet of lilac note paper,
+folded up tight, which she held in her hand, seemed to have something to
+do with it, and her soft brown curls and spreading muslin skirts were in
+equal danger of irremediable "mussing," as she fidgetted about on the
+carriage seat, fully as restless as any of the Zouaves.
+
+Mr. Schermerhorn received his guests on the piazza, where all the chairs
+in the house, one would think, were placed for the company, as the best
+view of the lawn was from this point. To the extreme right were the
+white tents of the camp, half hidden by the immense trunk of a
+magnificent elm, the only tree that broke the smooth expanse of the
+lawn. On the left a thick hawthorne hedge separated the ornamental
+grounds from the cultivated fields of the place, while in front the view
+was bounded by the blue and sparkling waters of the Sound.
+
+Soon four o'clock struck; and, punctual to the moment, the Zouaves could
+be seen in the distance, forming their ranks. Jerry, in his newest suit
+of regimentals, bustled about here and there, and presently his voice
+was heard shouting, "Are ye all ready now? SQUAD, 'SHUN! HARCH!" and to
+the melodious notes of "Dixie," performed by the band, which was
+stationed nearer the house, the regiment started up the lawn! Jerry
+marching up beside them, and occasionally uttering such mysterious
+mandates as, "Easy in the centre! keep your fours in the wheel! _Steady_
+now!"
+
+Oh, what a burst of delighted applause greeted them as they neared the
+house! The boys hurrahed, the girls clapped their hands, ladies and
+gentlemen waved their hats and handkerchiefs; while the Dashahed
+Zouaves, too soldierly _now_ to grin, drew up in a long line, and stood
+like statues, without so much as winking.
+
+And now the music died away, and everybody was as still as a mouse,
+while Jerry advanced to the front, and issued the preliminary order:
+
+"To the rear--open order!" and the rear rank straightway fell back;
+executing, in fact, that wonderful "tekkinapesstoth'rare" which had
+puzzled them so much on the first day of their drilling. Then came those
+other wonderful orders:
+
+          "P'_sent_ humps!
+          "_Der_ humps!
+          "Gr'_nd_ humps!"
+
+And so on, at which the muskets flew backward and forward, up and down,
+with such wonderful precision. The spectators were delighted beyond
+measure; an enthusiastic young gentleman, with about three hairs on
+each side of his mustache, who belonged to the Twenty-second Regiment,
+declared "It was the best drill he had seen out of his company room!" a
+celebrated artist, whose name I dare not tell for the world, sharpened
+his pencil, and broke the point off three times in his hurry, and at
+last produced the beautiful sketch which appears at the front of this
+volume; while all the little boys who were looking on, felt as if they
+would give every one of their new boots and glass agates to belong to
+the gallant Dashahed Zouaves.
+
+[Illustration: "DOUBLE-QUICK."]
+
+After the guns had been put in every possible variety of position, the
+regiment went through their marching. They broke into companies,
+formed the line again, divided in two equal parts, called "breaking into
+platoons," showed how to "wheel on the right flank," and all manner of
+other mysteries.
+
+Finally, they returned to their companies, and on Jerry's giving the
+order, they started at "double quick" (which is the most comical
+tritty-trot movement you can think of), dashed down the <DW72> of the
+lawn, round the great elm, up hill again full speed, and in a moment
+more were drawn up in unbroken lines before the house, and standing once
+again like so many statues.
+
+It was really splendid! Round after round of applause greeted the
+Zouaves, who kept their positions for a moment, then snatching off
+their saucy little fez caps, they gave the company three cheers in
+return, of the most tremendous description; which quite took away the
+little remaining breath they had after the "double quick."
+
+Thus ended the first part of the review; and now, with the assistance of
+their rather Lilliputian battery, and Tom's double headers, they went
+through some firing quite loud enough to make the little girls start and
+jump uncomfortably; so this part of the entertainment was brought to
+rather a sudden conclusion. Jerry had just issued the order, "Close up
+in ranks to dismiss," when Mr. Schermerhorn, who, with Miss Carlton and
+Jessie, had left the piazza a few minutes before, came forward, saying,
+"Have the goodness to wait a moment, Colonel; there is one more ceremony
+to go through with."
+
+The boys looked at each other in silent curiosity, wondering what could
+be coming; when, all at once, the chairs on the piazza huddled back in a
+great hurry, to make a lane for a beautiful little figure, which came
+tripping from the open door.
+
+It was Jessie; but a great change had been made in her appearance. Over
+her snowy muslin skirts she had a short classic tunic of red, white, and
+blue silk; a wreath of red and white roses and bright blue jonquils
+encircled her curls, and in her hand she carried a superb banner. It
+was made of dark blue silk, trimmed with gold fringe; on one side was
+painted an American eagle, and on the other the words "Dashahed
+Zouaves," surrounded with a blaze of glory and gold stars. She advanced
+to the edge of the piazza, and in a clear, sweet voice, a little
+tremulous, but very distinct, she said:
+
+          "COLONEL AND BRAVE SOLDIERS:
+
+          "I congratulate you, in the name of our friends,
+          on the success you have achieved. You have shown
+          us to-day what Young America can do; and as a
+          testimonial of our high admiration, I present you
+          the colors of your regiment!
+
+          "Take them, as the assurance that our hearts are
+          with you; bear them as the symbol of the Cause you
+          have enlisted under; and should you fall beneath
+          them on the field of battle, I bid you lay down
+          your lives cheerfully for the flag of your
+          country, and breathe with your last sigh the name
+          of the Union! Colonel, take your colors!"
+
+Freddy's cheeks grew crimson, and the great tears swelled to his eyes as
+he advanced to take the flag which Jessie held toward him. And now our
+little Colonel came out bright, sure enough. Perhaps not another member
+of the regiment, called upon to make a speech in this way, could have
+thought of a word to reply; but Freddy's quick wit supplied him with
+the right ideas; and it was with a proud, happy face, and clear voice
+that he responded:
+
+          "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
+
+          "I thank you, in the name of my regiment, for the
+          honor you have done us. Inspired by your praises,
+          proud to belong to the army of the Republic, we
+          hope to go on as we have begun. To your kindness
+          we owe the distinguishing colors under which we
+          march hereafter; and by the Union for which we
+          fight, they shall never float over a retreating
+          battalion!"
+
+Oh! the cheers and clapping of hands which followed this little speech!
+Everybody was looking at Freddy as he stood there, the colors in his
+hand, and the bright flush on his cheek, with the greatest admiration.
+Of course, his parents weren't proud of him; certainly not!
+
+But the wonders were not at an end yet; for suddenly the band began
+playing a new air, and to this accompaniment, the sweet voice of some
+lady unseen, but which sounded to those who knew, wonderfully like Miss
+Lucy Carlton's, sang the following patriotic ballad:
+
+          "We will stand by our Flag--let it lead where it will--
+          Our hearts and our hopes fondly cling to it still;
+          Through battle and danger our Cause must be won--
+          Yet forward! undaunted we'll follow it on!
+          'Tis the Flag! the old Flag! still unsullied and bright,
+          As when first its fair stars lit oppression's dark night
+          And the standard that guides us forever shall be
+          The Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!
+
+          "A handful of living--an army of dead,
+          The last charge been made and the last prayer been said;
+          What is it--as sad we retreat from the plain
+          That cheers us, and nerves us to rally again?
+          'Tis the Flag! the old Flag! to our country God-given,
+          That gleams through our ranks like a glory from heaven!
+          And the foe, as they fly, in our vanguard shall see
+          The Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!
+
+          "We will fight for the Flag, by the love that we bear
+          In the Union and Freedom, we'll baffle despair;
+          Trust on in our country, strike home for the right,
+          And Treason shall vanish like mists of the night.
+          Then cheer the old Flag! every star in it glows,
+          The terror of traitors! the curse of our foes!
+          And the victory that crowns us shall glorified be,
+          'Neath the Star-spangled Banner, the Flag of the Free!"
+
+As the song ended, there was another tumult of applause; and then the
+band struck up a lively quickstep, and the company, with the Zouaves
+marching ahead, poured out on the lawn toward the camp, where a
+bountiful collation was awaiting them, spread on the regimental table.
+Two splendid pyramids of flowers ornamented the centre, and all manner
+of "goodies," as the children call them, occupied every inch of space on
+the sides. At the head of the table Jerry had contrived a canopy from a
+large flag, and underneath this, Miss Jessie, Colonel Freddy, with the
+other officers, and some favored young ladies of their own age, took
+their seats. The other children found places around the table, and a
+merrier fete champetre never was seen. The band continued to play lively
+airs from time to time, and I really can give you my word as an author,
+that nobody looked cross for a single minute!
+
+Between you and me, little reader, there had been a secret arrangement
+among the grown folks interested in the regiment, to get all this up in
+such fine style. Every one had contributed something to give the Zouaves
+their flag and music, while to Mr. Schermerhorn it fell to supply the
+supper; and arrangements had been made and invitations issued since the
+beginning of the week. The regiment, certainly, had the credit, however,
+of getting up the review, it only having been the idea of their good
+friends to have the entertainment and flag presentation. So there was a
+pleasant surprise on both sides; and each party in the transaction, was
+quite as much astonished and delighted as the other could wish.
+
+The long sunset shadows were rapidly stealing over the velvet sward as
+the company rose from table, adding a new charm to the beauty of the
+scene. Everywhere the grass was dotted with groups of elegant ladies and
+gentlemen, and merry children, in light summer dresses and quaintly
+pretty uniforms. The little camp, with the stacks of guns down its
+centre, the bayonets flashing in the last rays of the sun, was all
+crowded and brilliant with happy people; looking into the tents and
+admiring their exquisite order, inspecting the bright muskets, and
+listening eagerly or good-humoredly, as they happened to be children or
+grown people, to the explanations and comments of the Zouaves.
+
+And on the little grassy knoll, where the flag staff was planted,
+central figure of the scene, stood Colonel Freddy, silent and thoughtful
+for the first time to-day, with Jerry beside him. The old man had
+scarcely left his side since the boy took the flag; he would permit no
+one else to wait upon him at table, and his eyes followed him as he
+moved among the gay crowd, with a glance of the utmost pride and
+affection. The old volunteer seemed to feel that the heart of a soldier
+beat beneath the little dandy ruffled shirt and gold-laced jacket of the
+young Colonel. Suddenly, the boy snatches up again the regimental
+colors; the Stars and Stripes, and little Jessie's flag, and shakes
+them out to the evening breeze; and as they flash into view and once
+more the cheers of the Zouaves greet their colors, he says, with
+quivering lip and flashing eye, "Jerry, if God spares me to be a man,
+I'll live and die a soldier!"
+
+The soft evening light was deepening into night, and the beautiful
+planet Venus rising in the west, when the visitors bade adieu to the
+camp; the Zouaves were shaken hands with until their wrists fairly
+ached; and then they all shook hands with "dear" Jessie, as Charley was
+heard to call her before the end of the day, and heard her say in her
+soft little voice how sorry she was they must go to-morrow (though she
+certainly couldn't have been sorrier than _they_ were), and then the
+good people all got into their carriages again, and drove off; waving
+their handkerchiefs for good-by as long as the camp could be seen; and
+so, with the sound of the last wheels dying away in the distance, ended
+the very end of
+
+                                THE GRAND REVIEW.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.--AND LAST.
+
+"HOME, SWEET HOME."
+
+
+AND now, at last, had come that "day of disaster," when Camp McClellan
+must be deserted. The very sun didn't shine so brilliantly as usual,
+thought the Zouaves; and it was positively certain that the past five
+days, although they had occurred in the middle of summer, were the very
+shortest ever known! Eleven o'clock was the hour appointed for the
+breaking up of the camp, in order that they might return to the city by
+the early afternoon boat.
+
+"Is it possible we have been here a week?" exclaimed Jimmy, as he sat
+down to breakfast. "It seems as if we had only come yesterday."
+
+"What a jolly time it has been!" chimed in Charley Spicer. "I don't want
+to go to Newport a bit. Where are you going, Tom?"
+
+"To Baltimore--but I don't mean to Secesh!" added Tom, with a little
+blush. "I have a cousin in the Palmetto Guards at Charleston, and that's
+one too many rebels in the family."
+
+"Never mind!" cried George Chadwick; "the Pringles are a first rate
+family; the rest of you are loyal enough, I'm sure!" and George gave
+Tom such a slap on the back, in token of his good will, that it quite
+brought the tears into his eyes.
+
+When breakfast was over, the Zouaves repaired to their tents, and
+proceeded to pack their clothes away out of the lockers. They were not
+very scientific packers, and, in fact, the usual mode of doing the
+business was to ram everything higgledy-piggledy into their valises, and
+then jump on them until they consented to come together and be locked.
+Presently Jerry came trotting down with a donkey cart used on the farm,
+and under his directions the boys folded their blankets neatly up, and
+placed them in the vehicle, which then drove off with its load, leaving
+them to get out and pile together the other furnishings of the tents;
+for, of course, as soldiers, they were expected to wind up their own
+affairs, and we all know that boys will do considerable _hard work_ when
+it comes in the form of _play_. Just as the cart, with its vicious
+little wrong-headed steed, had tugged, and jerked, and worried itself
+out of sight, a light basket carriage, drawn by two dashing black
+Canadian ponies, drew up opposite the camp, and the reins were let fall
+by a young lady in a saucy "pork pie" straw hat, who was driving--no
+other than Miss Carlton, with Jessie beside her. The boys eagerly
+surrounded the little carriage, and Miss Carlton said, laughing, "Jessie
+begged so hard for a last look at the camp, that I had to bring her. So
+you are really going away?"
+
+"Really," repeated Freddy; "but I am so glad you came, Miss Jessie, just
+in time to see us off."
+
+"You know soldiers take themselves away houses and all," said George;
+"you will see the tents come down with a run presently."
+
+"And here comes Jerry to help us!" added Harry. As he spoke, the donkey
+cart rattled up, and Jerry, touching his cap to the ladies, got out, and
+prepared to superintend the downfall of the tents. By his directions,
+two of the Zouaves went to each tent, and pulled the stakes first from
+one corner, then the other; then they grasped firmly the pole which
+supported the centre, and when the sergeant ejaculated "Now!" like a
+flash! the tents slid smoothly to the ground all at the same moment,
+just as you may have made a row of blocks fall down by upsetting the
+first one.
+
+And now came the last ceremony, the hauling down of the flag.
+
+"Stand by to fire a salute!" shouted Jerry, and instantly a company was
+detached, who brought the six little cannon under the flagstaff, and
+charged them with the last of the double headers, saved for this
+purpose; Freddy stood close to the flagstaff, with the halyards ready in
+his hands. Crack! fizz! went six matches for the cannon. "Make ready!
+apply light, FIRE!"
+
+BANG! and the folds of the flag stream out proudly in the breeze, as it
+rapidly descends the halyards, and flutters softly to the greensward.
+
+There was perfectly dead silence for a moment; then the voice of Mr.
+Schermerhorn was heard calling, "Come, boys, are you ready? Jump in,
+then, it is time to start for the boat." The boys turned and saw the
+carriages which had brought them so merrily to the camp waiting to
+convey them once more to the wharf; while a man belonging to the farm
+was rapidly piling the regimental luggage into a wagon.
+
+With sorrowful faces the Zouaves clustered around the pretty pony
+chaise; shaking hands once more with Jessie, and internally vowing to
+adore her as long as they lived. Then they got into the carriages, and
+old Jerry grasped Freddy's hand with an affectionate "Good-by, my little
+Colonel, God bless ye! Old Jerry won't never forget your noble face as
+long as he lives." It would have seemed like insulting the old man to
+offer him money in return for his loving admiration, but the handsome
+gilt-edged Bible that found its way to him soon after the departure of
+the regiment, was inscribed with the irregular schoolboy signature of
+"Freddy Jourdain, with love to his old friend Jeremiah Pike."
+
+As for the regimental standards, they were found to be rather beyond
+the capacity of a rockaway crammed full of Zouaves, so Tom insisted on
+riding on top of the baggage, that he might have the pleasure of
+carrying them all the way. Up he mounted, as brisk as a lamplighter,
+with that monkey, Peter, after him, the flags were handed up, and with
+three ringing cheers, the vehicles started at a rapid trot, and the
+regiment was fairly off. They almost broke their necks leaning back to
+see the last of "dear Jessie," until the locusts hid them from sight,
+when they relapsed into somewhat dismal silence for full five minutes.
+
+As Peter was going on to Niagara with his father, Mr. Schermerhorn
+accompanied the regiment to the city, which looked dustier and red
+brickier (what a word!) than ever, now that they were fresh from the
+lovely green of the country. By Mr. Schermerhorn's advice, the party
+took possession of two empty Fifth avenue stages which happened to be
+waiting at the Fulton ferry, and rode slowly up Broadway to Chambers
+street, where Peter and his father bid them good-by, and went off to the
+depot. As Peter had declined changing his clothes before he left, they
+had to travel all the way to Buffalo with our young friend in this
+unusual guise; but, as people had become used to seeing soldiers
+parading about in uniform, they didn't seem particularly surprised,
+whereat Master Peter was rather disappointed.
+
+To go back to the Zouaves, however. When the stages turned into Fifth
+avenue, they decided to get out; and after forming their ranks in fine
+style, they marched up the avenue, on the sidewalk this time, stopping
+at the various houses or street corners where they must bid adieu to one
+and another of their number, promising to see each other again as soon
+as possible.
+
+At last only Tom and Freddy were left to go home by themselves. As they
+marched along, keeping faultless step, Freddy exclaimed, "I tell you
+what, Tom! I mean to ask my father, the minute he comes home, to let me
+go to West Point as soon as I leave school! I must be a soldier--I
+can't think of anything else!"
+
+"That's just what I mean to do!" cried Tom, with sparkling eyes; "and,
+Fred, if you get promoted before me, promise you will have me in your
+regiment, won't you?"
+
+"Yes I will, certainly!" answered Freddy; "but you're the oldest, Tom,
+and, you know, the oldest gets promoted first; so mind you don't forget
+me when you come to your command!"
+
+As he spoke, they reached his own home; and our hero, glad after all to
+come back to father, mother, and sister, bounded up the steps, and rang
+the bell good and _hard_, just to let Joseph know that a personage of
+eminence had arrived. As the door opened, he turned gayly round, cap in
+hand, saying, "Good-by, Maryland; you've left the regiment, but you'll
+never leave the Union!" and the last words he heard Tom say were, "No,
+by George, _never_!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And now, dear little readers, my boy friends in particular, the history
+of Freddy Jourdain must close. He still lives in New York, and attends
+Dr. Larned's school, where he is at the head of all his classes.
+
+The Dashahed Zouaves have met very often since the encampment, and had
+many a good drill in their room--the large attic floor which Mr.
+Jourdain allowed them for their special accommodation, and where the
+beautiful regimental colors are carefully kept, to be proudly displayed
+in every parade of the Zouaves.
+
+When he is sixteen, the boy Colonel is to enter West Point Academy, and
+learn to be a real soldier; while Tom--poor Tom, who went down to
+Baltimore that pleasant July month, promising so faithfully to join
+Freddy in the cadet corps, may never see the North again.
+
+And in conclusion let me say, that should our country again be in danger
+in after years, which God forbid, we may be sure that first in the
+field, and foremost in the van of the grand army, will be our gallant
+young friend,
+
+                                 COLONEL FREDDY.
+
+
+
+
+CONCLUSION.
+
+
+IT took a great many Saturday afternoons to finish the story of "Colonel
+Freddy," and the children returned to it at each reading with renewed
+and breathless interest. George and Helen couldn't help jumping up off
+their seats once or twice and clapping their hands with delight when
+anything specially exciting took place in the pages of the wonderful
+story that was seen "before it was printed," and a great many "oh's" and
+"ah's" testified to their appreciation of the gallant "Dashahed
+Zouaves." They laughed over the captive Tom, and cried over the true
+story of the old sergeant; and when at length the very last word had
+been read, and their mother had laid down the manuscript, George sprang
+up once more, exclaiming; "Oh, I wish I could be a boy soldier! Mamma,
+mayn't I recruit a regiment and camp out too?" "And oh! if I could only
+present a flag!" cried his sister; "I wish I had been Jessie; what a
+pity it wasn't all true!"
+
+"And what if I should tell you," said their mother, laughing, "that a
+little bird has whispered in my ear that 'Colonel Freddy' was
+wonderfully like your little Long Island friend Hilton R----?"
+
+"Oh, mamma! why, what makes you think so?"
+
+"Oh, something funny I heard about him last summer; never mind what!"
+
+The children wisely concluded that it was no use to ask any more
+questions; at the same moment solemnly resolving that the very next time
+they paid a visit to their aunt, who lived at Astoria, they would beg
+her to let them drive over to Mr. R----'s place, and find out all about
+it.
+
+After this, there were no more readings for several Saturdays; but at
+last one morning when the children had almost given up all hopes of more
+stories, George opened his eyes on the sock hanging against the door,
+which looked more bulgy than ever. "Hurrah!" he shouted; "Aunt Fanny's
+daughter hasn't forgotten us, after all!" and dressing himself in a
+double quick, helter-skelter fashion, George dashed out into the entry,
+forgot his good resolution, and slid down the banisters like a streak of
+lightning and began pummelling on his sister's door with both fists;
+shouting, "Come, get up! get up, Nelly! here's another Sock story for
+us!"
+
+This delightful announcement was quite sufficient to make Helen's
+stockings, which she was just drawing on in a lazy fashion, fly up to
+their places in a hurry; then she popped her button-over boots on the
+wrong feet, and had to take them off and try again; and, in short, the
+whole of her dressing was an excellent illustration of that time-honored
+maxim, "The more _haste_, the worse _speed_;" George, meanwhile,
+performing a distracted Indian war dance in the entry outside, until his
+father opened his door and wanted to know what the racket was all about.
+
+"Socks! socks! father!" cried George, joyfully.
+
+At this moment Helen came out, and the two children scampered down
+stairs, and sitting down side by side on the sofa, they proceeded to
+examine this second instalment of the Sock stories. They found it was
+again a whole book; and the title, on a little page by itself, read
+"GERMAN SOCKS."
+
+"Oh, I am so glad!" said Helen. "These must be more stories like that
+dear 'Little White Angel.'"
+
+And so they proved to be; for, on their mother's commencing to read the
+first story, it was found to be called, "God's Pensioners;" and
+commenced, "It was a cold--" but stop! halt! This book was to be devoted
+to "Colonel Freddy;" but if you will only go to Mr. Leavitt's, the
+publishers, you will there discover what was the rest of the second Sock
+Stories.
+
+          THE END.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 41, "dilemna" changed to "dilemma" (horns of this dilemma)
+
+Page 81, "arttisically" changed to "artistically" (his fork
+artistically)
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Red, White, Blue Socks.  Part Second, by
+Sarah L. Barrow
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+THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS
+
+By Charles Dudley Warner
+
+
+
+The simple story of the life of Pocahontas is sufficiently romantic
+without the embellishments which have been wrought on it either by the
+vanity of Captain Smith or the natural pride of the descendants of this
+dusky princess who have been ennobled by the smallest rivulet of her red
+blood.
+
+That she was a child of remarkable intelligence, and that she early
+showed a tender regard for the whites and rendered them willing and
+unwilling service, is the concurrent evidence of all contemporary
+testimony. That as a child she was well-favored, sprightly, and
+prepossessing above all her copper-colored companions, we can believe,
+and that as a woman her manners were attractive. If the portrait taken
+of her in London--the best engraving of which is by Simon de Passe--in
+1616, when she is said to have been twenty-one years old, does her
+justice, she had marked Indian features.
+
+The first mention of her is in "The True Relation," written by Captain
+Smith in Virginia in 1608. In this narrative, as our readers have seen,
+she is not referred to until after Smith's return from the captivity
+in which Powhatan used him "with all the kindness he could devise." Her
+name first appears, toward the close of the relation, in the following
+sentence:
+
+"Powhatan understanding we detained certain salvages, sent his daughter,
+a child of tenne yeares old, which not only for feature, countenance,
+and proportion, much exceedeth any of the rest of his people, but for
+wit and spirit the only nonpareil of his country: this hee sent by his
+most trusty messenger, called Rawhunt, as much exceeding in deformitie
+of person, but of a subtill wit and crafty understanding, he with a long
+circumstance told mee how well Powhatan loved and respected mee, and in
+that I should not doubt any way of his kindness, he had sent his child,
+which he most esteemed, to see mee, a Deere, and bread, besides for
+a present: desiring mee that the Boy [Thomas Savage, the boy given by
+Newport to Powhatan] might come again, which he loved exceedingly, his
+little Daughter he had taught this lesson also: not taking notice at all
+of the Indians that had been prisoners three daies, till that morning
+that she saw their fathers and friends come quietly, and in good termes
+to entreate their libertie.
+
+"In the afternoon they [the friends of the prisoners] being gone, we
+guarded them [the prisoners] as before to the church, and after prayer,
+gave them to Pocahuntas the King's Daughter, in regard of her father's
+kindness in sending her: after having well fed them, as all the time of
+their imprisonment, we gave them their bows, arrowes, or what else
+they had, and with much content, sent them packing: Pocahuntas, also we
+requited with such trifles as contented her, to tel that we had used the
+Paspaheyans very kindly in so releasing them."
+
+The next allusion to her is in the fourth chapter of the narratives
+which are appended to the "Map of Virginia," etc. This was sent home by
+Smith, with a description of Virginia, in the late autumn of 1608. It
+was published at Oxford in 1612, from two to three years after Smith's
+return to England. The appendix contains the narratives of several of
+Smith's companions in Virginia, edited by Dr. Symonds and overlooked
+by Smith. In one of these is a brief reference to the above-quoted
+incident.
+
+This Oxford tract, it is scarcely necessary to repeat, contains no
+reference to the saving of Smith's life by Pocahontas from the clubs of
+Powhatan.
+
+The next published mention of Pocahontas, in point of time, is in
+Chapter X. and the last of the appendix to the "Map of Virginia," and is
+Smith's denial, already quoted, of his intention to marry Pocahontas.
+In this passage he speaks of her as "at most not past 13 or 14 years of
+age." If she was thirteen or fourteen in 1609, when Smith left Virginia,
+she must have been more than ten when he wrote his "True Relation,"
+composed in the winter of 1608, which in all probability was carried to
+England by Captain Nelson, who left Jamestown June 2d.
+
+The next contemporary authority to be consulted in regard to Pocahontas
+is William Strachey, who, as we have seen, went with the expedition of
+Gates and Somers, was shipwrecked on the Bermudas, and reached Jamestown
+May 23 or 24, 1610, and was made Secretary and Recorder of the colony
+under Lord Delaware. Of the origin and life of Strachey, who was a
+person of importance in Virginia, little is known. The better impression
+is that he was the William Strachey of Saffron Walden, who was married
+in 1588 and was living in 1620, and that it was his grandson of the same
+name who was subsequently connected with the Virginia colony. He was,
+judged by his writings, a man of considerable education, a good deal of
+a pedant, and shared the credulity and fondness for embellishment of the
+writers of his time. His connection with Lord Delaware, and his part
+in framing the code of laws in Virginia, which may be inferred from
+the fact that he first published them, show that he was a trusted and
+capable man.
+
+William Strachey left behind him a manuscript entitled "The Historie of
+Travaile into Virginia Britanica, &c., gathered and observed as well by
+those who went first thither, as collected by William Strachey, gent.,
+three years thither, employed as Secretaire of State." How long he
+remained in Virginia is uncertain, but it could not have been "three
+years," though he may have been continued Secretary for that period, for
+he was in London in 1612, in which year he published there the laws of
+Virginia which had been established by Sir Thomas Gates May 24, 1610,
+approved by Lord Delaware June 10, 1610, and enlarged by Sir Thomas Dale
+June 22, 1611.
+
+The "Travaile" was first published by the Hakluyt Society in 1849. When
+and where it was written, and whether it was all composed at one time,
+are matters much in dispute. The first book, descriptive of Virginia and
+its people, is complete; the second book, a narration of discoveries in
+America, is unfinished. Only the first book concerns us. That Strachey
+made notes in Virginia may be assumed, but the book was no doubt written
+after his return to England.
+
+
+[This code of laws, with its penalty of whipping and death for what are
+held now to be venial offenses, gives it a high place among the Black
+Codes. One clause will suffice:
+
+"Every man and woman duly twice a day upon the first towling of the Bell
+shall upon the working daies repaire unto the church, to hear divine
+service upon pain of losing his or her allowance for the first omission,
+for the second to be whipt, and for the third to be condemned to the
+Gallies for six months. Likewise no man or woman shall dare to violate
+the Sabbath by any gaming, publique or private, abroad or at home, but
+duly sanctifie and observe the same, both himselfe and his familie, by
+preparing themselves at home with private prayer, that they may be the
+better fitted for the publique, according to the commandments of God,
+and the orders of our church, as also every man and woman shall repaire
+in the morning to the divine service, and sermons preached upon the
+Sabbath day, and in the afternoon to divine service, and Catechism upon
+paine for the first fault to lose their provision, and allowance for the
+whole week following, for the second to lose the said allowance and also
+to be whipt, and for the third to suffer death."]
+
+
+Was it written before or after the publication of Smith's "Map and
+Description" at Oxford in 1612? The question is important, because
+Smith's "Description" and Strachey's "Travaile" are page after page
+literally the same. One was taken from the other. Commonly at that time
+manuscripts seem to have been passed around and much read before they
+were published. Purchas acknowledges that he had unpublished manuscripts
+of Smith when he compiled his narrative. Did Smith see Strachey's
+manuscript before he published his Oxford tract, or did Strachey enlarge
+his own notes from Smith's description? It has been usually assumed
+that Strachey cribbed from Smith without acknowledgment. If it were a
+question to be settled by the internal evidence of the two accounts,
+I should incline to think that Smith condensed his description from
+Strachey, but the dates incline the balance in Smith's favor.
+
+Strachey in his "Travaile" refers sometimes to Smith, and always with
+respect. It will be noted that Smith's "Map" was engraved and published
+before the "Description" in the Oxford tract. Purchas had it, for he
+says, in writing of Virginia for his "Pilgrimage" (which was published
+in 1613):
+
+"Concerning-the latter [Virginia], Capt. John Smith, partly by word
+of mouth, partly by his mappe thereof in print, and more fully by a
+Manuscript which he courteously communicated to mee, hath acquainted
+me with that whereof himselfe with great perill and paine, had been
+the discoverer." Strachey in his "Travaile" alludes to it, and pays a
+tribute to Smith in the following: "Their severall habitations are more
+plainly described by the annexed mappe, set forth by Capt. Smith, of
+whose paines taken herein I leave to the censure of the reader to judge.
+Sure I am there will not return from thence in hast, any one who hath
+been more industrious, or who hath had (Capt. Geo. Percie excepted)
+greater experience amongst them, however misconstruction may traduce
+here at home, where is not easily seen the mixed sufferances, both of
+body and mynd, which is there daylie, and with no few hazards and hearty
+griefes undergon."
+
+There are two copies of the Strachey manuscript. The one used by the
+Hakluyt Society is dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon, with the title of
+"Lord High Chancellor," and Bacon had not that title conferred on him
+till after 1618. But the copy among the Ashmolean manuscripts at Oxford
+is dedicated to Sir Allen Apsley, with the title of "Purveyor to His
+Majestie's Navie Royall"; and as Sir Allen was made "Lieutenant of
+the Tower" in 1616, it is believed that the manuscript must have been
+written before that date, since the author would not have omitted the
+more important of the two titles in his dedication.
+
+Strachey's prefatory letter to the Council, prefixed to his "Laws"
+(1612), is dated "From my lodging in the Black Friars. At your best
+pleasures, either to return unto the colony, or pray for the success of
+it heere." In his letter he speaks of his experience in the Bermudas and
+Virginia: "The full storie of both in due time [I] shall consecrate unto
+your view.... Howbit since many impediments, as yet must detaine such
+my observations in the shadow of darknesse, untill I shall be able to
+deliver them perfect unto your judgments," etc.
+
+This is not, as has been assumed, a statement that the observations were
+not written then, only that they were not "perfect"; in fact, they
+were detained in the "shadow of darknesse" till the year 1849. Our
+own inference is, from all the circumstances, that Strachey began his
+manuscript in Virginia or shortly after his return, and added to it and
+corrected it from time to time up to 1616.
+
+We are now in a position to consider Strachey's allusions to Pocahontas.
+The first occurs in his description of the apparel of Indian women:
+
+"The better sort of women cover themselves (for the most part) all over
+with skin mantells, finely drest, shagged and fringed at the skyrt,
+carved and coloured with some pretty work, or the proportion of beasts,
+fowle, tortayses, or other such like imagry, as shall best please or
+expresse the fancy of the wearer; their younger women goe not shadowed
+amongst their owne companie, until they be nigh eleaven or twelve
+returnes of the leafe old (for soe they accompt and bring about the
+yeare, calling the fall of the leaf tagnitock); nor are thev much
+ashamed thereof, and therefore would the before remembered Pocahontas,
+a well featured, but wanton yong girle, Powhatan's daughter, sometymes
+resorting to our fort, of the age then of eleven or twelve yeares, get
+the boyes forth with her into the markett place, and make them wheele,
+falling on their hands, turning up their heeles upwards, whome she would
+followe and wheele so herself, naked as she was, all the fort over;
+but being once twelve yeares, they put on a kind of semecinctum lethern
+apron (as do our artificers or handycrafts men) before their bellies,
+and are very shamefac't to be seene bare. We have seene some use
+mantells made both of Turkey feathers, and other fowle, so prettily
+wrought and woven with threeds, that nothing could be discerned but the
+feathers, which were exceedingly warme and very handsome."
+
+Strachey did not see Pocahontas. She did not resort to the camp after
+the departure of Smith in September, 1609, until she was kidnapped by
+Governor Dale in April, 1613. He repeats what he heard of her. The
+time mentioned by him of her resorting to the fort, "of the age then of
+eleven or twelve yeares," must have been the time referred to by Smith
+when he might have married her, namely, in 1608-9, when he calls her
+"not past 13 or 14 years of age." The description of her as a "yong
+girle" tumbling about the fort, "naked as she was," would seem to
+preclude the idea that she was married at that time.
+
+The use of the word "wanton" is not necessarily disparaging, for
+"wanton" in that age was frequently synonymous with "playful" and
+"sportive"; but it is singular that she should be spoken of as "well
+featured, but wanton." Strachey, however, gives in another place what is
+no doubt the real significance of the Indian name "Pocahontas." He says:
+
+"Both men, women, and children have their severall names; at first
+according to the severall humor of their parents; and for the men
+children, at first, when they are young, their mothers give them a name,
+calling them by some affectionate title, or perhaps observing their
+promising inclination give it accordingly; and so the great King
+Powhatan called a young daughter of his, whom he loved well, Pocahontas,
+which may signify a little wanton; howbeyt she was rightly called
+Amonata at more ripe years."
+
+The Indian girls married very young. The polygamous Powhatan had a large
+number of wives, but of all his women, his favorites were a dozen "for
+the most part very young women," the names of whom Strachey obtained
+from one Kemps, an Indian a good deal about camp, whom Smith certifies
+was a great villain. Strachey gives a list of the names of twelve of
+them, at the head of which is Winganuske. This list was no doubt written
+down by the author in Virginia, and it is followed by a sentence,
+quoted below, giving also the number of Powhatan's children. The
+"great darling" in this list was Winganuske, a sister of Machumps,
+who, according to Smith, murdered his comrade in the Bermudas. Strachey
+writes:
+
+"He [Powhatan] was reported by the said Kemps, as also by the Indian
+Machumps, who was sometyme in England, and comes to and fro amongst us
+as he dares, and as Powhatan gives him leave, for it is not otherwise
+safe for him, no more than it was for one Amarice, who had his braynes
+knockt out for selling but a baskett of corne, and lying in the English
+fort two or three days without Powhatan's leave; I say they often
+reported unto us that Powhatan had then lyving twenty sonnes and ten
+daughters, besyde a young one by Winganuske, Machumps his sister, and a
+great darling of the King's; and besides, younge Pocohunta, a daughter
+of his, using sometyme to our fort in tymes past, nowe married to a
+private Captaine, called Kocoum, some two years since."
+
+This passage is a great puzzle. Does Strachey intend to say that
+Pocahontas was married to an Iniaan named Kocoum? She might have been
+during the time after Smith's departure in 1609, and her kidnapping
+in 1613, when she was of marriageable age. We shall see hereafter that
+Powhatan, in 1614, said he had sold another favorite daughter of his,
+whom Sir Thomas Dale desired, and who was not twelve years of age, to
+be wife to a great chief. The term "private Captain" might perhaps be
+applied to an Indian chief. Smith, in his "General Historie," says
+the Indians have "but few occasions to use any officers more than one
+commander, which commonly they call Werowance, or Caucorouse, which is
+Captaine." It is probably not possible, with the best intentions, to
+twist Kocoum into Caucorouse, or to suppose that Strachey intended to
+say that a private captain was called in Indian a Kocoum. Werowance
+and Caucorouse are not synonymous terms. Werowance means "chief," and
+Caucorouse means "talker" or "orator," and is the original of our word
+"caucus."
+
+Either Strachey was uninformed, or Pocahontas was married to an
+Indian--a not violent presumption considering her age and the fact
+that war between Powhatan and the whites for some time had cut off
+intercourse between them--or Strachey referred to her marriage with
+Rolfe, whom he calls by mistake Kocoum. If this is to be accepted,
+then this paragraph must have been written in England in 1616, and have
+referred to the marriage to Rolfe it "some two years since," in 1614.
+
+That Pocahontas was a gentle-hearted and pleasing girl, and, through her
+acquaintance with Smith, friendly to the whites, there is no doubt; that
+she was not different in her habits and mode of life from other Indian
+girls, before the time of her kidnapping, there is every reason to
+suppose. It was the English who magnified the imperialism of her father,
+and exaggerated her own station as Princess. She certainly put on no
+airs of royalty when she was "cart-wheeling" about the fort. Nor
+does this detract anything from the native dignity of the mature, and
+converted, and partially civilized woman.
+
+We should expect there would be the discrepancies which have been
+noticed in the estimates of her age. Powhatan is not said to have kept
+a private secretary to register births in his family. If Pocahontas gave
+her age correctly, as it appears upon her London portrait in 1616,
+aged twenty-one, she must have been eighteen years of age when she was
+captured in 1613 This would make her about twelve at the time of Smith's
+captivity in 1607-8. There is certainly room for difference of opinion
+as to whether so precocious a woman, as her intelligent apprehension of
+affairs shows her to have been, should have remained unmarried till the
+age of eighteen. In marrying at least as early as that she would have
+followed the custom of her tribe. It is possible that her intercourse
+with the whites had raised her above such an alliance as would be
+offered her at the court of Werowocomoco.
+
+We are without any record of the life of Pocahontas for some years.
+The occasional mentions of her name in the "General Historie" are so
+evidently interpolated at a late date, that they do not aid us. When
+and where she took the name of Matoaka, which appears upon her London
+portrait, we are not told, nor when she was called Amonata, as Strachey
+says she was "at more ripe yeares." How she was occupied from the
+departure of Smith to her abduction, we can only guess. To follow her
+authentic history we must take up the account of Captain Argall and of
+Ralph Hamor, Jr., secretary of the colony under Governor Dale.
+
+Captain Argall, who seems to have been as bold as he was unscrupulous
+in the execution of any plan intrusted to him, arrived in Virginia
+in September, 1612, and early in the spring of 1613 he was sent on an
+expedition up the Patowomek to trade for corn and to effect a capture
+that would bring Powhatan to terms. The Emperor, from being a friend,
+had become the most implacable enemy of the English. Captain Argall
+says: "I was told by certain Indians, my friends, that the great
+Powhatan's daughter Pokahuntis was with the great King Potowomek,
+whither I presently repaired, resolved to possess myself of her by any
+stratagem that I could use, for the ransoming of so many Englishmen as
+were prisoners with Powhatan, as also to get such armes and tooles as
+he and other Indians had got by murther and stealing some others of our
+nation, with some quantity of corn for the colonies relief."
+
+By the aid of Japazeus, King of Pasptancy, an old acquaintance and
+friend of Argall's, and the connivance of the King of Potowomek,
+Pocahontas was enticed on board Argall's ship and secured. Word was sent
+to Powhatan of the capture and the terms on which his daughter would be
+released; namely, the return of the white men he held in slavery, the
+tools and arms he had gotten and stolen, and a great quantity of corn.
+Powhatan, "much grieved," replied that if Argall would use his daughter
+well, and bring the ship into his river and release her, he would accede
+to all his demands. Therefore, on the 13th of April, Argall repaired to
+Governor Gates at Jamestown, and delivered his prisoner, and a few days
+after the King sent home some of the white captives, three pieces, one
+broad-axe, a long whip-saw, and a canoe of corn. Pocahontas, however,
+was kept at Jamestown.
+
+Why Pocahontas had left Werowocomoco and gone to stay with Patowomek
+we can only conjecture. It is possible that Powhatan suspected her
+friendliness to the whites, and was weary of her importunity, and it may
+be that she wanted to escape the sight of continual fighting, ambushes,
+and murders. More likely she was only making a common friendly visit,
+though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair.
+
+The story of her capture is enlarged and more minutely related by Ralph
+Hamor, Jr., who was one of the colony shipwrecked on the Bermudas in
+1609, and returned to England in 1614, where he published (London, 1615)
+"A True Discourse of Virginia, and the Success of the Affairs there
+till the 18th of June, 1614." Hamor was the son of a merchant tailor in
+London who was a member of the Virginia company. Hamor writes:
+
+"It chanced Powhatan's delight and darling, his daughter Pocahuntas
+(whose fame has even been spread in England by the title of Nonparella
+of Firginia) in her princely progresse if I may so terme it, tooke some
+pleasure (in the absence of Captaine Argall) to be among her friends at
+Pataomecke (as it seemeth by the relation I had), implored thither as
+shopkeeper to a Fare, to exchange some of her father's commodities for
+theirs, where residing some three months or longer, it fortuned upon
+occasion either of promise or profit, Captaine Argall to arrive there,
+whom Pocahuntas, desirous to renew her familiaritie with the English,
+and delighting to see them as unknown, fearefull perhaps to be
+surprised, would gladly visit as she did, of whom no sooner had Captaine
+Argall intelligence, but he delt with an old friend Iapazeus, how and
+by what meanes he might procure her caption, assuring him that now or
+never, was the time to pleasure him, if he intended indeede that love
+which he had made profession of, that in ransome of hir he might redeeme
+some of our English men and armes, now in the possession of her father,
+promising to use her withall faire and gentle entreaty; Iapazeus well
+assured that his brother, as he promised, would use her courteously,
+promised his best endeavors and service to accomplish his desire, and
+thus wrought it, making his wife an instrument (which sex have ever been
+most powerful in beguiling inticements) to effect his plot which hee
+had thus laid, he agreed that himself, his wife and Pocahuntas, would
+accompanie his brother to the water side, whither come, his wife should
+faine a great and longing desire to goe aboorde, and see the shippe,
+which being there three or four times before she had never seene, and
+should be earnest with her husband to permit her--he seemed angry with
+her, making as he pretended so unnecessary request, especially being
+without the company of women, which denial she taking unkindly,
+must faine to weepe (as who knows not that women can command teares)
+whereupon her husband seeming to pitty those counterfeit teares, gave
+her leave to goe aboord, so that it would pleese Pocahuntas to accompany
+her; now was the greatest labour to win her, guilty perhaps of her
+father's wrongs, though not knowne as she supposed, to goe with her, yet
+by her earnest persuasions, she assented: so forthwith aboord they went,
+the best cheere that could be made was seasonably provided, to supper
+they went, merry on all hands, especially Iapazeus and his wife, who to
+expres their joy would ere be treading upon Captaine Argall's foot, as
+who should say tis don, she is your own. Supper ended Pocahuntas was
+lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have
+some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by
+what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already
+related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing
+mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with
+feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be
+gon. Capt. Argall having secretly well rewarded him, with a small Copper
+kittle, and some other les valuable toies so highly by him esteemed,
+that doubtlesse he would have betraied his own father for them,
+permitted both him and his wife to returne, but told him that for divers
+considerations, as for that his father had then eigh [8] of our Englishe
+men, many swords, peeces, and other tooles, which he hid at severall
+times by trecherous murdering our men, taken from them which though
+of no use to him, he would not redeliver, he would reserve Pocahuntas,
+whereat she began to be exceeding pensive, and discontented, yet
+ignorant of the dealing of Japazeus who in outward appearance was no les
+discontented that he should be the meanes of her captivity, much adoe
+there was to pursuade her to be patient, which with extraordinary
+curteous usage, by little and little was wrought in her, and so to
+Jamestowne she was brought."
+
+Smith, who condenses this account in his "General Historie," expresses
+his contempt of this Indian treachery by saying: "The old Jew and his
+wife began to howle and crie as fast as Pocahuntas." It will be noted
+that the account of the visit (apparently alone) of Pocahontas and her
+capture is strong evidence that she was not at this time married to
+"Kocoum" or anybody else.
+
+Word was despatched to Powhatan of his daughter's duress, with a
+demand made for the restitution of goods; but although this savage is
+represented as dearly loving Pocahontas, his "delight and darling," it
+was, according to Hamor, three months before they heard anything from
+him. His anxiety about his daughter could not have been intense. He
+retained a part of his plunder, and a message was sent to him that
+Pocahontas would be kept till he restored all the arms.
+
+This answer pleased Powhatan so little that they heard nothing from him
+till the following March. Then Sir Thomas Dale and Captain Argall, with
+several vessels and one hundred and fifty men, went up to Powhatan's
+chief seat, taking his daughter with them, offering the Indians a chance
+to fight for her or to take her in peace on surrender of the stolen
+goods. The Indians received this with bravado and flights of arrows,
+reminding them of the fate of Captain Ratcliffe. The whites landed,
+killed some Indians, burnt forty houses, pillaged the village, and went
+on up the river and came to anchor in front of Matchcot, the Emperor's
+chief town. Here were assembled four hundred armed men, with bows and
+arrows, who dared them to come ashore. Ashore they went, and a palaver
+was held. The Indians wanted a day to consult their King, after which
+they would fight, if nothing but blood would satisfy the whites.
+
+Two of Powhatan's sons who were present expressed a desire to see their
+sister, who had been taken on shore. When they had sight of her, and
+saw how well she was cared for, they greatly rejoiced and promised to
+persuade their father to redeem her and conclude a lasting peace. The
+two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master
+Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. Powhatan did not show
+himself, but his brother Apachamo, his successor, promised to use his
+best efforts to bring about a peace, and the expedition returned to
+Jamestown.
+
+"Long before this time," Hamor relates, "a gentleman of approved
+behaviour and honest carriage, Master John Rolfe, had been in love with
+Pocahuntas and she with him, which thing at the instant that we were
+in parlee with them, myselfe made known to Sir Thomas Dale, by a letter
+from him [Rolfe] whereby he entreated his advice and furtherance to his
+love, if so it seemed fit to him for the good of the Plantation, and
+Pocahuntas herself acquainted her brethren therewith." Governor Dale
+approved this, and consequently was willing to retire without other
+conditions. "The bruite of this pretended marriage [Hamor continues]
+came soon to Powhatan's knowledge, a thing acceptable to him, as
+appeared by his sudden consent thereunto, who some ten daies after sent
+an old uncle of hirs, named Opachisco, to give her as his deputy in the
+church, and two of his sonnes to see the mariage solemnized which was
+accordingly done about the fifth of April [1614], and ever since we have
+had friendly commerce and trade, not only with Powhatan himself, but
+also with his subjects round about us; so as now I see no reason why the
+collonie should not thrive a pace."
+
+This marriage was justly celebrated as the means and beginning of a firm
+peace which long continued, so that Pocahontas was again entitled to the
+grateful remembrance of the Virginia settlers. Already, in 1612, a plan
+had been mooted in Virginia of marrying the English with the natives,
+and of obtaining the recognition of Powhatan and those allied to him as
+members of a fifth kingdom, with certain privileges. Cunega, the Spanish
+ambassador at London, on September 22, 1612, writes: "Although some
+suppose the plantation to decrease, he is credibly informed that there
+is a determination to marry some of the people that go over to Virginia;
+forty or fifty are already so married, and English women intermingle and
+are received kindly by the natives. A zealous minister hath been wounded
+for reprehending it."
+
+Mr. John Rolfe was a man of industry, and apparently devoted to the
+welfare of the colony. He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife,
+who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at
+the time of the shipwreck. We find no notice of her death. Hamor gives
+him the distinction of being the first in the colony to try, in 1612,
+the planting and raising of tobacco. "No man [he adds] hath labored to
+his power, by good example there and worthy encouragement into England
+by his letters, than he hath done, witness his marriage with Powhatan's
+daughter, one of rude education, manners barbarous and cursed
+generation, meerely for the good and honor of the plantation: and
+least any man should conceive that some sinister respects allured him
+hereunto, I have made bold, contrary to his knowledge, in the end of my
+treatise to insert the true coppie of his letter written to Sir Thomas
+Dale."
+
+The letter is a long, labored, and curious document, and comes nearer to
+a theological treatise than any love-letter we have on record. It reeks
+with unction. Why Rolfe did not speak to Dale, whom he saw every day,
+instead of inflicting upon him this painful document, in which the
+flutterings of a too susceptible widower's heart are hidden under a
+great resolve of self-sacrifice, is not plain.
+
+The letter protests in a tedious preamble that the writer is moved
+entirely by the Spirit of God, and continues:
+
+"Let therefore this my well advised protestation, which here I make
+between God and my own conscience, be a sufficient witness, at the
+dreadful day of judgment (when the secrets of all men's hearts shall be
+opened) to condemne me herein, if my chiefest interest and purpose be
+not to strive with all my power of body and mind, in the undertaking
+of so weighty a matter, no way led (so far forth as man's weakness may
+permit) with the unbridled desire of carnall affection; but for the good
+of this plantation, for the honour of our countrie, for the glory of
+God, for my owne salvation, and for the converting to the true knowledge
+of God and Jesus Christ, an unbelieving creature, namely Pokahuntas.
+To whom my heartie and best thoughts are, and have a long time bin so
+entangled, and inthralled in so intricate a laborinth, that I was even
+awearied to unwinde myself thereout."
+
+Master Rolfe goes on to describe the mighty war in his meditations on
+this subject, in which he had set before his eyes the frailty of mankind
+and his proneness to evil and wicked thoughts. He is aware of God's
+displeasure against the sons of Levi and Israel for marrying strange
+wives, and this has caused him to look about warily and with good
+circumspection "into the grounds and principall agitations which should
+thus provoke me to be in love with one, whose education hath bin rude,
+her manners barbarous, her generation accursed, and so discrepant in
+all nurtriture from myselfe, that oftentimes with feare and trembling,
+I have ended my private controversie with this: surely these are
+wicked instigations, fetched by him who seeketh and delighteth in man's
+distruction; and so with fervent prayers to be ever preserved from such
+diabolical assaults (as I looke those to be) I have taken some rest."
+
+The good man was desperately in love and wanted to marry the Indian, and
+consequently he got no peace; and still being tormented with her image,
+whether she was absent or present, he set out to produce an ingenious
+reason (to show the world) for marrying her. He continues:
+
+"Thus when I thought I had obtained my peace and quietnesse, beholde
+another, but more gracious tentation hath made breaches into my holiest
+and strongest meditations; with which I have been put to a new triall,
+in a straighter manner than the former; for besides the weary passions
+and sufferings which I have dailey, hourely, yea and in my sleepe
+indured, even awaking me to astonishment, taxing me with remissnesse,
+and carelessnesse, refusing and neglecting to perform the duteie of a
+good Christian, pulling me by the eare, and crying: Why dost thou not
+indeavor to make her a Christian? And these have happened to my greater
+wonder, even when she hath been furthest seperated from me, which
+in common reason (were it not an undoubted work of God) might breede
+forgetfulnesse of a far more worthie creature."
+
+He accurately describes the symptoms and appears to understand the
+remedy, but he is after a large-sized motive:
+
+"Besides, I say the holy Spirit of God hath often demanded of me, why I
+was created? If not for transitory pleasures and worldly vanities, but
+to labour in the Lord's vineyard, there to sow and plant, to nourish and
+increase the fruites thereof, daily adding with the good husband in the
+gospell, somewhat to the tallent, that in the ends the fruites may be
+reaped, to the comfort of the labourer in this life, and his salvation
+in the world to come.... Likewise, adding hereunto her great appearance
+of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge
+of God, her capablenesse of understanding, her aptness and willingness
+to receive anie good impression, and also the spirituall, besides her
+owne incitements stirring me up hereunto."
+
+The "incitements" gave him courage, so that he exclaims: "Shall I be of
+so untoward a disposition, as to refuse to lead the blind into the right
+way? Shall I be so unnatural, as not to give bread to the hungrie, or
+uncharitable, as not to cover the naked?"
+
+It wasn't to be thought of, such wickedness; and so Master Rolfe screwed
+up his courage to marry the glorious Princess, from whom thousands
+of people were afterwards so anxious to be descended. But he made the
+sacrifice for the glory of the country, the benefit of the plantation,
+and the conversion of the unregenerate, and other and lower motive
+he vigorously repels: "Now, if the vulgar sort, who square all men's
+actions by the base rule of their own filthinesse, shall tax or taunt
+mee in this my godly labour: let them know it is not hungry appetite, to
+gorge myselfe with incontinency; sure (if I would and were so sensually
+inclined) I might satisfy such desire, though not without a seared
+conscience, yet with Christians more pleasing to the eie, and less
+fearefull in the offense unlawfully committed. Nor am I in so desperate
+an estate, that I regard not what becometh of me; nor am I out of hope
+but one day to see my country, nor so void of friends, nor mean in
+birth, but there to obtain a mach to my great con'tent.... But shall it
+please God thus to dispose of me (which I earnestly desire to fulfill
+my ends before set down) I will heartily accept of it as a godly taxe
+appointed me, and I will never cease (God assisting me) untill I have
+accomplished, and brought to perfection so holy a worke, in which I will
+daily pray God to bless me, to mine and her eternal happiness."
+
+It is to be hoped that if sanctimonious John wrote any love-letters to
+Amonata they had less cant in them than this. But it was pleasing to Sir
+Thomas Dale, who was a man to appreciate the high motives of Mr. Rolfe.
+In a letter which he despatched from Jamestown, June 18, 1614, to a
+reverend friend in London, he describes the expedition when Pocahontas
+was carried up the river, and adds the information that when she went on
+shore, "she would not talk to any of them, scarcely to them of the best
+sort, and to them only, that if her father had loved her, he would not
+value her less than old swords, pieces, or axes; wherefore she would
+still dwell with the Englishmen who loved her."
+
+"Powhatan's daughter [the letter continues] I caused to be carefully
+instructed in Christian Religion, who after she had made some good
+progress therein, renounced publically her countrey idolatry, openly
+confessed her Christian faith, was, as she desired, baptized, and is
+since married to an English Gentleman of good understanding (as by his
+letter unto me, containing the reasons for his marriage of her you may
+perceive), an other knot to bind this peace the stronger. Her father
+and friends gave approbation to it, and her uncle gave her to him in
+the church; she lives civilly and lovingly with him, and I trust will
+increase in goodness, as the knowledge of God increaseth in her. She
+will goe into England with me, and were it but the gayning of this one
+soule, I will think my time, toile, and present stay well spent."
+
+Hamor also appends to his narration a short letter, of the same date
+with the above, from the minister Alexander Whittaker, the genuineness
+of which is questioned. In speaking of the good deeds of Sir Thomas Dale
+it says: "But that which is best, one Pocahuntas or Matoa, the
+daughter of Powhatan, is married to an honest and discreet English
+Gentleman--Master Rolfe, and that after she had openly renounced her
+countrey Idolatry, and confessed the faith of Jesus Christ, and was
+baptized, which thing Sir Thomas Dale had laboured a long time to ground
+her in." If, as this proclaims, she was married after her conversion,
+then Rolfe's tender conscience must have given him another twist for
+wedding her, when the reason for marrying her (her conversion) had
+ceased with her baptism. His marriage, according to this, was a pure
+work of supererogation. It took place about the 5th of April, 1614. It
+is not known who performed the ceremony.
+
+How Pocahontas passed her time in Jamestown during the period of her
+detention, we are not told. Conjectures are made that she was an inmate
+of the house of Sir Thomas Dale, or of that of the Rev. Mr. Whittaker,
+both of whom labored zealously to enlighten her mind on religious
+subjects. She must also have been learning English and civilized ways,
+for it is sure that she spoke our language very well when she went to
+London. Mr. John Rolfe was also laboring for her conversion, and we may
+suppose that with all these ministrations, mingled with her love of Mr.
+Rolfe, which that ingenious widower had discovered, and her desire to
+convert him into a husband, she was not an unwilling captive. Whatever
+may have been her barbarous instincts, we have the testimony of Governor
+Dale that she lived "civilly and lovingly" with her husband.
+
+
+
+
+
+STORY OF POCAHONTAS, CONTINUED
+
+Sir Thomas Dale was on the whole the most efficient and discreet
+Governor the colony had had. One element of his success was no doubt the
+change in the charter of 1609. By the first charter everything had
+been held in common by the company, and there had been no division of
+property or allotment of land among the colonists. Under the new regime
+land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began
+at once to improve the condition of the settlement. The character of the
+colonists was also gradually improving. They had not been of a sort
+to fulfill the earnest desire of the London promoter's to spread vital
+piety in the New World. A zealous defense of Virginia and Maryland,
+against "scandalous imputation," entitled "Leah and Rachel; or, The
+Two Fruitful Sisters," by Mr. John Hammond, London, 1656, considers
+the charges that Virginia "is an unhealthy place, a nest of rogues,
+abandoned women, dissolut and rookery persons; a place of intolerable
+labour, bad usage and hard diet"; and admits that "at the first
+settling, and for many years after, it deserved most of these
+aspersions, nor were they then aspersions but truths.... There were
+jails supplied, youth seduced, infamous women drilled in, the provision
+all brought out of England, and that embezzled by the Trustees."
+
+Governor Dale was a soldier; entering the army in the Netherlands as a
+private he had risen to high position, and received knighthood in 1606.
+Shortly after he was with Sir Thomas Gates in South Holland. The States
+General in 1611 granted him three years' term of absence in Virginia.
+Upon his arrival he began to put in force that system of industry and
+frugality he had observed in Holland. He had all the imperiousness of a
+soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some
+injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer,
+he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. Active operations for
+settling new plantations were at once begun, and Dale wrote to Cecil,
+the Earl of Salisbury, for 2,000 good colonists to be sent out, for the
+three hundred that came were "so profane, so riotous, so full of mutiny,
+that not many are Christians but in name, their bodies so diseased and
+crazed that not sixty of them may be employed." He served afterwards
+with credit in Holland, was made commander of the East Indian fleet in
+1618, had a naval engagement with the Dutch near Bantam in 1619, and
+died in 1620 from the effects of the climate. He was twice married, and
+his second wife, Lady Fanny, the cousin of his first wife, survived him
+and received a patent for a Virginia plantation.
+
+Governor Dale kept steadily in view the conversion of the Indians to
+Christianity, and the success of John Rolfe with Matoaka inspired
+him with a desire to convert another daughter of Powhatan, of whose
+exquisite perfections he had heard. He therefore despatched Ralph Hamor,
+with the English boy, Thomas Savage, as interpreter, on a mission to
+the court of Powhatan, "upon a message unto him, which was to deale with
+him, if by any means I might procure a daughter of his, who (Pocahuntas
+being already in our possession) is generally reported to be his delight
+and darling, and surely he esteemed her as his owne Soule, for surer
+pledge of peace." This visit Hamor relates with great naivete.
+
+At his town of Matchcot, near the head of York River, Powhatan
+himself received his visitors when they landed, with great cordiality,
+expressing much pleasure at seeing again the boy who had been presented
+to him by Captain Newport, and whom he had not seen since he gave him
+leave to go and see his friends at Jamestown four years before; he also
+inquired anxiously after Namontack, whom he had sent to King James's
+land to see him and his country and report thereon, and then led the way
+to his house, where he sat down on his bedstead side. "On each hand of
+him was placed a comely and personable young woman, which they called
+his Queenes, the howse within round about beset with them, the outside
+guarded with a hundred bowmen."
+
+The first thing offered was a pipe of tobacco, which Powhatan "first
+drank," and then passed to Hamor, who "drank" what he pleased and then
+returned it. The Emperor then inquired how his brother Sir Thomas Dale
+fared, "and after that of his daughter's welfare, her marriage, his
+unknown son, and how they liked, lived and loved together." Hamor
+replied "that his brother was very well, and his daughter so well
+content that she would not change her life to return and live with him,
+whereat he laughed heartily, and said he was very glad of it."
+
+Powhatan then desired to know the cause of his unexpected coming, and
+Mr. Hamor said his message was private, to be delivered to him without
+the presence of any except one of his councilors, and one of the guides,
+who already knew it.
+
+Therefore the house was cleared of all except the two Queens, who may
+never sequester themselves, and Mr. Hamor began his palaver. First there
+was a message of love and inviolable peace, the production of presents
+of coffee, beads, combs, fish-hooks, and knives, and the promise of
+a grindstone when it pleased the Emperor to send for it. Hamor then
+proceeded:
+
+"The bruite of the exquesite perfection of your youngest daughter, being
+famous through all your territories, hath come to the hearing of your
+brother, Sir Thomas Dale, who for this purpose hath addressed me hither,
+to intreate you by that brotherly friendship you make profession of, to
+permit her (with me) to returne unto him, partly for the desire which
+himselfe hath, and partly for the desire her sister hath to see her of
+whom, if fame hath not been prodigall, as like enough it hath not, your
+brother (by your favour) would gladly make his nearest companion, wife
+and bed fellow [many times he would have interrupted my speech, which
+I entreated him to heare out, and then if he pleased to returne me
+answer], and the reason hereof is, because being now friendly and firmly
+united together, and made one people [as he supposeth and believes] in
+the bond of love, he would make a natural union between us, principally
+because himself hath taken resolution to dwel in your country so long as
+he liveth, and would not only therefore have the firmest assurance hee
+may, of perpetuall friendship from you, but also hereby binde himselfe
+thereunto."
+
+Powhatan replied with dignity that he gladly accepted the salute of love
+and peace, which he and his subjects would exactly maintain. But as to
+the other matter he said: "My daughter, whom my brother desireth, I sold
+within these three days to be wife to a great Weroance for two bushels
+of Roanoke [a small kind of beads made of oyster shells], and it is true
+she is already gone with him, three days' journey from me."
+
+Hamor persisted that this marriage need not stand in the way; "that if
+he pleased herein to gratify his Brother he might, restoring the Roanoke
+without the imputation of injustice, take home his daughter again, the
+rather because she was not full twelve years old, and therefore not
+marriageable; assuring him besides the bond of peace, so much the
+firmer, he should have treble the price of his daughter in beads,
+copper, hatchets, and many other things more useful for him."
+
+The reply of the noble old savage to this infamous demand ought to have
+brought a blush to the cheeks of those who made it. He said he loved his
+daughter as dearly as his life; he had many children, but he delighted
+in none so much as in her; he could not live if he did not see her
+often, as he would not if she were living with the whites, and he
+was determined not to put himself in their hands. He desired no other
+assurance of friendship than his brother had given him, who had already
+one of his daughters as a pledge, which was sufficient while she lived;
+"when she dieth he shall have another child of mine." And then he broke
+forth in pathetic eloquence: "I hold it not a brotherly part of your
+King, to desire to bereave me of two of my children at once; further
+give him to understand, that if he had no pledge at all, he should not
+need to distrust any injury from me, or any under my subjection; there
+have been too many of his and my men killed, and by my occasion there
+shall never be more; I which have power to perform it have said it; no
+not though I should have just occasion offered, for I am now old and
+would gladly end my days in peace; so as if the English offer me any
+injury, my country is large enough, I will remove myself farther from
+you."
+
+The old man hospitably entertained his guests for a day or two, loaded
+them with presents, among which were two dressed buckskins, white as
+snow, for his son and daughter, and, requesting some articles sent him
+in return, bade them farewell with this message to Governor Dale: "I
+hope this will give him good satisfaction, if it do not I will go three
+days' journey farther from him, and never see Englishmen more." It
+speaks well for the temperate habits of this savage that after he had
+feasted his guests, "he caused to be fetched a great glass of sack, some
+three quarts or better, which Captain Newport had given him six or seven
+years since, carefully preserved by him, not much above a pint in all
+this time spent, and gave each of us in a great oyster shell some three
+spoonfuls."
+
+We trust that Sir Thomas Dale gave a faithful account of all this to his
+wife in England.
+
+Sir Thomas Gates left Virginia in the spring of 1614 and never returned.
+After his departure scarcity and severity developed a mutiny, and six
+of the settlers were executed. Rolfe was planting tobacco (he has the
+credit of being the first white planter of it), and his wife was getting
+an inside view of Christian civilization.
+
+In 1616 Sir Thomas Dale returned to England with his company and John
+Rolfe and Pocahontas, and several other Indians. They reached Plymouth
+early in June, and on the 20th Lord Carew made this note: "Sir Thomas
+Dale returned from Virginia; he hath brought divers men and women of
+thatt countrye to be educated here, and one Rolfe who married a daughter
+of Pohetan (the barbarous prince) called Pocahuntas, hath brought his
+wife with him into England." On the 22d Sir John Chamberlain wrote to
+Sir Dudley Carlton that there were "ten or twelve, old and young, of
+that country."
+
+The Indian girls who came with Pocahontas appear to have been a great
+care to the London company. In May, 1620, is a record that the company
+had to pay for physic and cordials for one of them who had been living
+as a servant in Cheapside, and was very weak of a consumption. The same
+year two other of the maids were shipped off to the Bermudas, after
+being long a charge to the company, in the hope that they might there
+get husbands, "that after they were converted and had children, they
+might be sent to their country and kindred to civilize them." One of
+them was there married. The attempt to educate them in England was not
+very successful, and a proposal to bring over Indian boys obtained this
+comment from Sir Edwin Sandys:
+
+"Now to send for them into England, and to have them educated here, he
+found upon experience of those brought by Sir Thomas Dale, might be far
+from the Christian work intended." One Nanamack, a lad brought over by
+Lord Delaware, lived some years in houses where "he heard not much of
+religion but sins, had many times examples of drinking, swearing and
+like evils, ran as he was a mere Pagan," till he fell in with a
+devout family and changed his life, but died before he was baptized.
+Accompanying Pocahontas was a councilor of Powhatan, one Tomocomo, the
+husband of one of her sisters, of whom Purchas says in his "Pilgrimes":
+"With this savage I have often conversed with my good friend Master
+Doctor Goldstone where he was a frequent geust, and where I have seen
+him sing and dance his diabolical measures, and heard him discourse of
+his country and religion.... Master Rolfe lent me a discourse which
+I have in my Pilgrimage delivered. And his wife did not only accustom
+herself to civility, but still carried herself as the daughter of a
+king, and was accordingly respected, not only by the Company which
+allowed provision for herself and her son, but of divers particular
+persons of honor, in their hopeful zeal by her to advance Christianity.
+I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of
+London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond
+what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. At
+her return towards Virginia she came at Gravesend to her end and grave,
+having given great demonstration of her Christian sincerity, as the
+first fruits of Virginia conversion, leaving here a goodly memory,
+and the hopes of her resurrection, her soul aspiring to see and enjoy
+permanently in heaven what here she had joyed to hear and believe of her
+blessed Saviour. Not such was Tomocomo, but a blasphemer of what he knew
+not and preferring his God to ours because he taught them (by his own
+so appearing) to wear their Devil-lock at the left ear; he acquainted me
+with the manner of that his appearance, and believed that their Okee or
+Devil had taught them their husbandry."
+
+Upon news of her arrival, Captain Smith, either to increase his own
+importance or because Pocahontas was neglected, addressed a letter or
+"little booke" to Queen Anne, the consort of King James. This letter is
+found in Smith's "General Historie" ( 1624), where it is introduced
+as having been sent to Queen Anne in 1616. Probably he sent her such a
+letter. We find no mention of its receipt or of any acknowledgment of
+it. Whether the "abstract" in the "General Historie" is exactly like
+the original we have no means of knowing. We have no more confidence in
+Smith's memory than we have in his dates. The letter is as follows:
+
+"To the most high and vertuous Princesse Queene Anne of Great Brittaine.
+
+"Most ADMIRED QUEENE.
+
+"The love I beare my God, my King and Countrie hath so oft emboldened me
+in the worst of extreme dangers, that now honestie doth constraine mee
+presume thus farre beyond my selfe, to present your Majestie this short
+discourse: if ingratitude be a deadly poyson to all honest vertues,
+I must be guiltie of that crime if I should omit any meanes to bee
+thankful. So it is.
+
+"That some ten yeeres agoe being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the
+power of Powhaten, their chiefe King, I received from this great Salvage
+exceeding great courtesie, especially from his sonne Nantaquaus, the
+most manliest, comeliest, boldest spirit, I ever saw in a Salvage and
+his sister Pocahontas, the Kings most deare and well-beloved daughter,
+being but a childe of twelve or thirteen yeeres of age, whose
+compassionate pitifull heart, of desperate estate, gave me much cause
+to respect her: I being the first Christian this proud King and his grim
+attendants ever saw, and thus enthralled in their barbarous power, I
+cannot say I felt the least occasion of want that was in the power of
+those my mortall foes to prevent notwithstanding al their threats. After
+some six weeks fatting amongst those Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of
+my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save
+mine, and not onely that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was
+safely conducted to Jamestowne, where I found about eight and thirty
+miserable poore and sicke creatures, to keepe possession of all those
+large territories of Virginia, such was the weaknesse of this poore
+Commonwealth, as had the Salvages not fed us, we directly had starved.
+
+"And this reliefe, most gracious Queene, was commonly brought us by
+this Lady Pocahontas, notwithstanding all these passages when inconstant
+Fortune turned our Peace to warre, this tender Virgin would still not
+spare to dare to visit us, and by her our jarres have been oft appeased,
+and our wants still supplyed; were it the policie of her father thus to
+imploy her, or the ordinance of God thus to make her his instrument, or
+her extraordinarie affection to our Nation, I know not: but of this I am
+sure: when her father with the utmost of his policie and power, sought
+to surprize mee, having but eighteene with mee, the dark night could not
+affright her from comming through the irksome woods, and with watered
+eies gave me intilligence, with her best advice to escape his furie:
+which had hee known hee had surely slaine her. Jamestowne with her wild
+traine she as freely frequented, as her father's habitation: and during
+the time of two or three yeares, she next under God, was still the
+instrument to preserve this Colonie from death, famine and utter
+confusion, which if in those times had once beene dissolved, Virginia
+might have laine as it was at our first arrivall to this day. Since
+then, this buisinesse having been turned and varied by many accidents
+from that I left it at: it is most certaine, after a long and
+troublesome warre after my departure, betwixt her father and our
+Colonie, all which time shee was not heard of, about two yeeres longer,
+the Colonie by that meanes was releived, peace concluded, and at last
+rejecting her barbarous condition, was maried to an English Gentleman,
+with whom at this present she is in England; the first Christian ever of
+that Nation, the first Virginian ever spake English, or had a childe
+in mariage by an Englishman, a matter surely, if my meaning bee truly
+considered and well understood, worthy a Princes understanding.
+
+"Thus most gracious Lady, I have related to your Majestic, what at your
+best leasure our approved Histories will account you at large, and done
+in the time of your Majesties life, and however this might bee presented
+you from a more worthy pen, it cannot from a more honest heart, as yet
+I never begged anything of the State, or any, and it is my want of
+abilitie and her exceeding desert, your birth, meanes, and authoritie,
+her birth, vertue, want and simplicitie, doth make mee thus bold, humbly
+to beseech your Majestic: to take this knowledge of her though it be
+from one so unworthy to be the reporter, as myselfe, her husband's
+estate not being able to make her fit to attend your Majestic: the most
+and least I can doe, is to tell you this, because none so oft hath tried
+it as myselfe: and the rather being of so great a spirit, however her
+station: if she should not be well received, seeing this Kingdome
+may rightly have a Kingdome by her meanes: her present love to us and
+Christianitie, might turne to such scorne and furie, as to divert all
+this good to the worst of evill, when finding so great a Queene should
+doe her some honour more than she can imagine, for being so kinde to
+your servants and subjects, would so ravish her with content, as endeare
+her dearest bloud to effect that, your Majestic and all the Kings honest
+subjects most earnestly desire: and so I humbly kisse your gracious
+hands."
+
+The passage in this letter, "She hazarded the beating out of her owne
+braines to save mine," is inconsistent with the preceding portion of the
+paragraph which speaks of "the exceeding great courtesie" of Powhatan;
+and Smith was quite capable of inserting it afterwards when he made up
+his
+
+"General Historie."
+
+Smith represents himself at this time--the last half of 1616 and the
+first three months of 1617--as preparing to attempt a third voyage to
+New England (which he did not make), and too busy to do Pocahontas the
+service she desired. She was staying at Branford, either from neglect
+of the company or because the London smoke disagreed with her, and there
+Smith went to see her. His account of his intercourse with her, the only
+one we have, must be given for what it is worth. According to this she
+had supposed Smith dead, and took umbrage at his neglect of her. He
+writes:
+
+"After a modest salutation, without any word, she turned about, obscured
+her face, as not seeming well contented; and in that humour, her husband
+with divers others, we all left her two or three hours repenting myself
+to have writ she could speak English. But not long after she began to
+talke, remembering me well what courtesies she had done: saying, 'You
+did promise Powhatan what was yours should be his, and he the like to
+you; you called him father, being in his land a stranger, and by the
+same reason so must I do you:' which though I would have excused, I
+durst not allow of that title, because she was a king's daughter. With
+a well set countenance she said: 'Were you not afraid to come into my
+father's country and cause fear in him and all his people (but me), and
+fear you have I should call you father; I tell you then I will, and
+you shall call me childe, and so I will be forever and ever, your
+contrieman. They did tell me alwaies you were dead, and I knew no other
+till I came to Plymouth, yet Powhatan did command Uttamatomakkin to seek
+you, and know the truth, because your countriemen will lie much."'
+
+This savage was the Tomocomo spoken of above, who had been sent by
+Powhatan to take a census of the people of England, and report what they
+and their state were. At Plymouth he got a long stick and began to make
+notches in it for the people he saw. But he was quickly weary of that
+task. He told Smith that Powhatan bade him seek him out, and get him
+to show him his God, and the King, Queen, and Prince, of whom Smith had
+told so much. Smith put him off about showing his God, but said he had
+heard that he had seen the King. This the Indian denied, James probably
+not coming up to his idea of a king, till by circumstances he was
+convinced he had seen him. Then he replied very sadly: "You gave
+Powhatan a white dog, which Powhatan fed as himself, but your king gave
+me nothing, and I am better than your white dog."
+
+Smith adds that he took several courtiers to see Pocahontas, and "they
+did think God had a great hand in her conversion, and they have seen
+many English ladies worse favoured, proportioned, and behavioured;" and
+he heard that it had pleased the King and Queen greatly to esteem her,
+as also Lord and Lady Delaware, and other persons of good quality, both
+at the masques and otherwise.
+
+Much has been said about the reception of Pocahontas in London, but
+the contemporary notices of her are scant. The Indians were objects of
+curiosity for a time in London, as odd Americans have often been since,
+and the rank of Pocahontas procured her special attention. She was
+presented at court. She was entertained by Dr. King, Bishop of London.
+At the playing of Ben Jonson's "Christmas his Mask" at court, January
+6, 1616-17, Pocahontas and Tomocomo were both present, and Chamberlain
+writes to Carleton: "The Virginian woman Pocahuntas with her father
+counsellor have been with the King and graciously used, and both she and
+her assistant were pleased at the Masque. She is upon her return though
+sore against her will, if the wind would about to send her away."
+
+Mr. Neill says that "after the first weeks of her residence in England
+she does not appear to be spoken of as the wife of Rolfe by the letter
+writers," and the Rev. Peter Fontaine says that "when they heard that
+Rolfe had married Pocahontas, it was deliberated in council whether he
+had not committed high treason by so doing, that is marrying an Indian
+princesse."
+
+It was like James to think so. His interest in the colony was never
+the most intelligent, and apt to be in things trivial. Lord Southampton
+(Dec. 15, 1609) writes to Lord Salisbury that he had told the King of
+the Virginia squirrels brought into England, which are said to fly. The
+King very earnestly asked if none were provided for him, and said he was
+sure Salisbury would get him one. Would not have troubled him, "but that
+you know so well how he is affected to these toys."
+
+There has been recently found in the British Museum a print of a
+portrait of Pocahontas, with a legend round it in Latin, which is
+translated: "Matoaka, alias Rebecka, Daughter of Prince Powhatan,
+Emperor of Virginia; converted to Christianity, married Mr. Rolff; died
+on shipboard at Gravesend 1617." This is doubtless the portrait engraved
+by Simon De Passe in 1616, and now inserted in the extant copies of the
+London edition of the "General Historie," 1624. It is not probable that
+the portrait was originally published with the "General Historie." The
+portrait inserted in the edition of 1624 has this inscription:
+
+Round the portrait:
+
+"Matoaka als Rebecca Filia Potentiss Princ: Pohatani Imp: Virginim."
+
+In the oval, under the portrait:
+
+         "Aetatis suae 21 A.
+            1616"
+Below:
+
+"Matoaks als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan Emprour of
+Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and baptized in the Christian
+faith, and wife to the worth Mr. job Rolff. i: Pass: sculp. Compton
+Holland excud."
+
+
+Camden in his "History of Gravesend" says that everybody paid this
+young lady all imaginable respect, and it was believed she would have
+sufficiently acknowledged those favors, had she lived to return to her
+own country, by bringing the Indians to a kinder disposition toward the
+English; and that she died, "giving testimony all the time she lay sick,
+of her being a very good Christian."
+
+The Lady Rebecka, as she was called in London, died on shipboard at
+Gravesend after a brief illness, said to be of only three days, probably
+on the 21st of March, 1617. I have seen somewhere a statement, which
+I cannot confirm, that her disease was smallpox. St. George's Church,
+where she was buried, was destroyed by fire in 1727. The register of
+that church has this record:
+
+
+       "1616, May 21 Rebecca Wrothe
+        Wyff of Thomas Wroth gent
+     A Virginia lady borne, here was buried
+          in ye chaunncle."
+
+Yet there is no doubt, according to a record in the Calendar of State
+Papers, dated "1617, 29 March, London," that her death occurred March
+21, 1617.
+
+John Rolfe was made Secretary of Virginia when Captain Argall became
+Governor, and seems to have been associated in the schemes of that
+unscrupulous person and to have forfeited the good opinion of the
+company. August 23, 1618, the company wrote to Argall: "We cannot
+imagine why you should give us warning that Opechankano and the natives
+have given the country to Mr. Rolfe's child, and that they reserve it
+from all others till he comes of years except as we suppose as some
+do here report it be a device of your own, to some special purpose for
+yourself." It appears also by the minutes of the company in 1621 that
+Lady Delaware had trouble to recover goods of hers left in Rolfe's hands
+in Virginia, and desired a commission directed to Sir Thomas Wyatt and
+Mr. George Sandys to examine what goods of the late "Lord Deleware had
+come into Rolfe's possession and get satisfaction of him." This George
+Sandys is the famous traveler who made a journey through the Turkish
+Empire in 1610, and who wrote, while living in Virginia, the first book
+written in the New World, the completion of his translation of Ovid's
+"Metamorphosis."
+
+John Rolfe died in Virginia in 1622, leaving a wife and children.
+This is supposed to be his third wife, though there is no note of his
+marriage to her nor of the death of his first. October 7, 1622, his
+brother Henry Rolfe petitioned that the estate of John should be
+converted to the support of his relict wife and children and to his own
+indemnity for having brought up John's child by Powhatan's daughter.
+
+This child, named Thomas Rolfe, was given after the death of Pocahontas
+to the keeping of Sir Lewis Stukely of Plymouth, who fell into evil
+practices, and the boy was transferred to the guardianship of his uncle
+Henry Rolfe, and educated in London. When he was grown up he returned
+to Virginia, and was probably there married. There is on record his
+application to the Virginia authorities in 1641 for leave to go into the
+Indian country and visit Cleopatra, his mother's sister. He left an only
+daughter who was married, says Stith (1753), "to Col. John Bolling; by
+whom she left an only son, the late Major John Bolling, who was father
+to the present Col. John Bolling, and several daughters, married to
+Col. Richard Randolph, Col. John Fleming, Dr. William Gay, Mr. Thomas
+Eldridge, and Mr. James Murray." Campbell in his "History of Virginia"
+says that the first Randolph that came to the James River was an
+esteemed and industrious mechanic, and that one of his sons, Richard,
+grandfather of the celebrated John Randolph, married Jane Bolling, the
+great granddaughter of Pocahontas.
+
+In 1618 died the great Powhatan, full of years and satiated with
+fighting and the savage delights of life. He had many names and titles;
+his own people sometimes called him Ottaniack, sometimes Mamauatonick,
+and usually in his presence Wahunsenasawk. He ruled, by inheritance and
+conquest, with many chiefs under him, over a large territory with not
+defined borders, lying on the James, the York, the Rappahannock, the
+Potomac, and the Pawtuxet Rivers. He had several seats, at which he
+alternately lived with his many wives and guard of bowmen, the chief of
+which at the arrival of the English was Werowomocomo, on the Pamunkey
+(York) River. His state has been sufficiently described. He is said
+to have had a hundred wives, and generally a dozen--the
+youngest--personally attending him. When he had a mind to add to his
+harem he seems to have had the ancient oriental custom of sending into
+all his dominions for the fairest maidens to be brought from whom to
+select. And he gave the wives of whom he was tired to his favorites.
+
+Strachey makes a striking description of him as he appeared about 1610:
+"He is a goodly old man not yet shrincking, though well beaten with cold
+and stormeye winters, in which he hath been patient of many necessityes
+and attempts of his fortune to make his name and famely great. He is
+supposed to be little lesse than eighty yeares old, I dare not saye how
+much more; others saye he is of a tall stature and cleane lymbes, of a
+sad aspect, rownd fatt visaged, with graie haires, but plaine and thin,
+hanging upon his broad showlders; some few haires upon his chin, and so
+on his upper lippe: he hath been a strong and able salvadge, synowye,
+vigilant, ambitious, subtile to enlarge his dominions:... cruell he hath
+been, and quarellous as well with his own wcrowanccs for trifles, and
+that to strike a terrour and awe into them of his power and condicion,
+as also with his neighbors in his younger days, though now delighted in
+security and pleasure, and therefore stands upon reasonable conditions
+of peace with all the great and absolute werowances about him, and is
+likewise more quietly settled amongst his own."
+
+It was at this advanced age that he had the twelve favorite young wives
+whom Strachey names. All his people obeyed him with fear and adoration,
+presenting anything he ordered at his feet, and trembling if he frowned.
+His punishments were cruel; offenders were beaten to death before him,
+or tied to trees and dismembered joint by joint, or broiled to death on
+burning coals. Strachey wondered how such a barbarous prince should put
+on such ostentation of majesty, yet he accounted for it as belonging to
+the necessary divinity that doth hedge in a king: "Such is (I believe)
+the impression of the divine nature, and however these (as other
+heathens forsaken by the true light) have not that porcion of the
+knowing blessed Christian spiritt, yet I am perswaded there is an
+infused kind of divinities and extraordinary (appointed that it shall
+be so by the King of kings) to such as are his ymedyate instruments on
+earth."
+
+Here is perhaps as good a place as any to say a word or two about the
+appearance and habits of Powhatan's subjects, as they were observed
+by Strachey and Smith. A sort of religion they had, with priests or
+conjurors, and houses set apart as temples, wherein images were kept
+and conjurations performed, but the ceremonies seem not worship, but
+propitiations against evil, and there seems to have been no conception
+of an overruling power or of an immortal life. Smith describes a
+ceremony of sacrifice of children to their deity; but this is doubtful,
+although Parson Whittaker, who calls the Indians "naked slaves of the
+devil," also says they sacrificed sometimes themselves and sometimes
+their own children. An image of their god which he sent to England
+"was painted upon one side of a toadstool, much like unto a deformed
+monster." And he adds: "Their priests, whom they call Quockosoughs, are
+no other but such as our English witches are." This notion I believe
+also pertained among the New England colonists. There was a belief
+that the Indian conjurors had some power over the elements, but not a
+well-regulated power, and in time the Indians came to a belief in the
+better effect of the invocations of the whites. In "Winslow's Relation,"
+quoted by Alexander Young in his "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers,"
+under date of July, 1623, we read that on account of a great drought
+a fast day was appointed. When the assembly met the sky was clear. The
+exercise lasted eight or nine hours. Before they broke up, owing to
+prayers the weather was overcast. Next day began a long gentle rain.
+This the Indians seeing, admired the goodness of our God: "showing the
+difference between their conjuration and our invocation in the name
+of God for rain; theirs being mixed with such storms and tempests, as
+sometimes, instead of doing them good, it layeth the corn flat on the
+ground; but ours in so gentle and seasonable a manner, as they never
+observed the like."
+
+It was a common opinion of the early settlers in Virginia, as it was of
+those in New England, that the Indians were born white, but that they
+got a brown or tawny color by the use of red ointments, made of earth
+and the juice of roots, with which they besmear themselves either
+according to the custom of the country or as a defense against the
+stinging of mosquitoes. The women are of the same hue as the men, says
+Strachey; "howbeit, it is supposed neither of them naturally borne so
+discolored; for Captain Smith (lyving sometymes amongst them) affirmeth
+how they are from the womb indifferent white, but as the men, so doe the
+women," "dye and disguise themselves into this tawny cowler, esteeming
+it the best beauty to be nearest such a kind of murrey as a sodden
+quince is of," as the Greek women colored their faces and the ancient
+Britain women dyed themselves with red; "howbeit [Strachey slyly adds]
+he or she that hath obtained the perfected art in the tempering of this
+collour with any better kind of earth, yearb or root preserves it not
+yet so secrett and precious unto herself as doe our great ladyes their
+oyle of talchum, or other painting white and red, but they frindly
+communicate the secret and teach it one another."
+
+Thomas Lechford in his "Plain Dealing; or Newes from New England,"
+London, 1642, says: "They are of complexion swarthy and tawny; their
+children are borne white, but they bedawbe them with oyle and colors
+presently."
+
+The men are described as tall, straight, and of comely proportions; no
+beards; hair black, coarse, and thick; noses broad, flat, and full at
+the end; with big lips and wide mouths', yet nothing so unsightly as
+the Moors; and the women as having "handsome limbs, slender arms, pretty
+hands, and when they sing they have a pleasant tange in their voices.
+The men shaved their hair on the right side, the women acting as
+barbers, and left the hair full length on the left side, with a lock an
+ell long." A Puritan divine--"New England's Plantation, 1630"--says of
+the Indians about him, "their hair is generally black, and cut before
+like our gentlewomen, and one lock longer than the rest, much like to
+our gentlemen, which fashion I think came from hence into England."
+
+Their love of ornaments is sufficiently illustrated by an extract from
+Strachey, which is in substance what Smith writes:
+
+"Their eares they boare with wyde holes, commonly two or three, and in
+the same they doe hang chaines of stayned pearle braceletts, of white
+bone or shreeds of copper, beaten thinne and bright, and wounde up
+hollowe, and with a grate pride, certaine fowles' legges, eagles,
+hawkes, turkeys, etc., with beasts clawes, bears, arrahacounes,
+squirrells, etc. The clawes thrust through they let hang upon the cheeke
+to the full view, and some of their men there be who will weare in these
+holes a small greene and yellow-couloured live snake, neere half a yard
+in length, which crawling and lapping himself about his neck oftentymes
+familiarly, he suffreeth to kisse his lippes. Others weare a dead ratt
+tyed by the tayle, and such like conundrums."
+
+This is the earliest use I find of our word "conundrum," and the sense
+it bears here may aid in discovering its origin.
+
+Powhatan is a very large figure in early Virginia history, and deserves
+his prominence. He was an able and crafty savage, and made a good fight
+against the encroachments of the whites, but he was no match for
+the crafty Smith, nor the double-dealing of the Christians. There is
+something pathetic about the close of his life, his sorrow for the death
+of his daughter in a strange land, when he saw his territories overrun
+by the invaders, from whom he only asked peace, and the poor privilege
+of moving further away from them into the wilderness if they denied him
+peace.
+
+In the midst of this savagery Pocahontas blooms like a sweet, wild rose.
+She was, like the Douglas, "tender and true." Wanting apparently the
+cruel nature of her race generally, her heroic qualities were all of the
+heart. No one of all the contemporary writers has anything but gentle
+words for her. Barbarous and untaught she was like her comrades, but of
+a gentle nature. Stripped of all the fictions which Captain Smith has
+woven into her story, and all the romantic suggestions which later
+writers have indulged in, she appears, in the light of the few facts
+that industry is able to gather concerning her, as a pleasing and
+unrestrained Indian girl, probably not different from her savage sisters
+in her habits, but bright and gentle; struck with admiration at the
+appearance of the white men, and easily moved to pity them, and so
+inclined to a growing and lasting friendship for them; tractable and apt
+to learn refinements; accepting the new religion through love for those
+who taught it, and finally becoming in her maturity a well-balanced,
+sensible, dignified Christian woman.
+
+According to the long-accepted story of Pocahontas, she did something
+more than interfere to save from barbarous torture and death a stranger
+and a captive, who had forfeited his life by shooting those who
+opposed his invasion. In all times, among the most savage tribes and in
+civilized society, women have been moved to heavenly pity by the sight
+of a prisoner, and risked life to save him--the impulse was as natural
+to a Highland lass as to an African maid. Pocahontas went further than
+efforts to make peace between the superior race and her own. When the
+whites forced the Indians to contribute from their scanty stores to the
+support of the invaders, and burned their dwellings and shot them on
+sight if they refused, the Indian maid sympathized with the exposed
+whites and warned them of stratagems against them; captured herself by a
+base violation of the laws of hospitality, she was easily reconciled to
+her situation, adopted the habits of the foreigners, married one of her
+captors, and in peace and in war cast in her lot with the strangers.
+History has not preserved for us the Indian view of her conduct.
+
+It was no doubt fortunate for her, though perhaps not for the colony,
+that her romantic career ended by an early death, so that she always
+remains in history in the bloom of youth. She did not live to be pained
+by the contrast, to which her eyes were opened, between her own and her
+adopted people, nor to learn what things could be done in the Christian
+name she loved, nor to see her husband in a less honorable light than
+she left him, nor to be involved in any way in the frightful massacre
+of 1622. If she had remained in England after the novelty was over, she
+might have been subject to slights and mortifying neglect. The struggles
+of the fighting colony could have brought her little but pain. Dying
+when she did, she rounded out one of the prettiest romances of all
+history, and secured for her name the affection of a great nation, whose
+empire has spared little that belonged to her childhood and race, except
+the remembrance of her friendship for those who destroyed her people.
+
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+  LAST DAYS OF THE REBELLION.
+
+  THE SECOND NEW YORK CAVALRY
+  (HARRIS' LIGHT)
+  AT APPOMATTOX STATION AND APPOMATTOX COURT
+  HOUSE, APRIL 8 and 9, 1865.
+
+
+  BY
+  ALANSON M. RANDOL
+
+  _Major First U. S. Artillery (late Colonel Second New York
+  Cavalry), Bvt. Brig-General, U. S. Vols._
+
+
+  ALCATRAZ ISLAND, CAL.,
+  1886.
+
+
+
+
+LAST DAYS OF THE REBELLION.
+
+
+During the winter of 1864-5 the Second New York (Harris' Light) Cavalry
+was in winter quarters near Winchester, Va., on the Romney pike. Alanson
+M. Randol, Captain First United States Artillery, was colonel of the
+regiment, which, with the First Connecticut, Second Ohio, and Third New
+Jersey, constituted the first brigade, third division, cavalry corps. The
+division was commanded by General George A. Custer; the brigade by A. C.
+M. Pennington, Captain Second United States Artillery, Colonel Third New
+Jersey Cavalry. On the 27th of February, 1865, the divisions of Merritt
+and Custer, with the batteries of Miller (Fourth United States Artillery)
+and Woodruff (Second United States Artillery), all under command of
+General Sheridan, left their winter quarters in and around Winchester,
+and, after a series of splendid victories, and unsurpassed marches and
+fortunes, joined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg on the
+27th of March. The Second New York Cavalry shared largely in the glories
+and miseries of this great and successful raid. At Five Forks, Deep Creek,
+and Sailors Creek, it not only maintained its gallant and meritorious
+record, but added to its great renown. At the gentle and joyous passage
+of arms at Appomattox Station, on the 8th of April, it reached the climax
+of its glory, and, by its deeds of daring, touched the pinnacle of fame.
+On that day it performed prodigies of valor, and achieved successes as
+pregnant with good results as any single action of the war. By forcing a
+passage through the rebel lines and heading off Lee's army, it contributed
+largely to the result that followed the next day--the surrender of the
+Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+On the night of the 7th of April we camped on Buffalo River. Moving at an
+early hour on the 8th, we crossed the Lynchburg Railroad at Prospect
+Station, and headed for Appomattox Station, where it was expected we would
+strike, if not intercept, Lee's retreating, disintegrating army. The trail
+was fresh and the chase hot. Joy beamed in every eye, for all felt that
+the end was drawing near, and we earnestly hoped that ours might be the
+glorious opportunity of striking the final blow. About noon the regiment
+was detached to capture a force of the enemy said to be at one of the
+crossings of the Appomattox. Some few hundreds, unarmed, half-starved,
+stragglers, with no fight in them, were found, and turned over to the
+Provost Marshall. Resuming its place in the column, I received orders to
+report with the regiment to General Custer, who was at its head. Reporting
+in compliance with this order, General Custer informed me that his scouts
+had reported three large trains of cars at Appomattox Station, loaded with
+supplies for the rebel army; that he expected to have made a junction
+with Merritt's division near this point; that his orders were to wait here
+till Merritt joined him; that he had not heard from him since morning, and
+had sent an officer to communicate with him, but if he did not hear from
+him in half an hour, he wished me to take my regiment and capture the
+trains of cars, and, if possible, reach and hold the pike to Lynchburg.
+While talking, the whistle of the locomotive was distinctly but faintly
+heard, and the column was at once moved forward, the Second New York in
+advance. As we neared the station the whistles became more and more
+distinct, and a scout reported the trains rapidly unloading, and that the
+advance of the rebel army was passing through Appomattox Court House.
+Although Custer's orders were to make a junction with Merritt before
+coming in contact with the enemy, here was a chance to strike a decisive
+blow, which, if successful, would add to his renown and glory, and if not,
+Merritt would soon be up to help him out of the scrape. Our excitement was
+intense, but subdued. All saw the vital importance of heading off the
+enemy. Another whistle, nearer and clearer, and another scout decided the
+question. I was ordered to move rapidly to Appomattox Station, seize the
+trains there, and, if possible, get possession of the Lynchburg pike.
+General Custer rode up alongside of me and, laying his hand on my
+shoulder, said, "Go in, old fellow, don't let anything stop you; now is
+the chance for your stars. Whoop 'em up; I'll be after you." The regiment
+left the column at a slow trot, which became faster and faster until we
+caught sight of the cars, which were preparing to move away, when, with a
+cheer, we charged down on the station, capturing in an instant the three
+trains of cars, with the force guarding them. I called for engineers and
+firemen to take charge of the trains, when at least a dozen of my men
+around me offered their services. I chose the number required, and ordered
+the trains to be run to the rear, where I afterwards learned they were
+claimed as captures by General Ord's corps. The cars were loaded with
+commissary stores, a portion of which had been unloaded, on which the
+rebel advance were regaling themselves when we pounced so unexpectedly
+down on them.
+
+While the regiment was rallying after the charge, the enemy opened on it a
+fierce fire from all kinds of guns--field and siege--which, however, did
+but little damage, as the regiment was screened from the enemy's sight by
+a dense woods. I at once sent notification to General Custer and Colonel
+Pennington of my success, moved forward--my advance busily
+skirmishing--and followed with the regiment in line of battle, mounted.
+The advance was soon checked by the enemy formed behind hastily
+constructed intrenchments in a dense wood of the second growth of pine.
+Flushed with success and eager to gain the Lynchburg pike, along which
+immense wagon and siege trains were rapidly moving, the regiment was
+ordered to charge. Three times did it try to break through the enemy's
+lines, but failed. Colonel Pennington arrived on the field with the rest
+of the brigade, when, altogether, a rush was made, but it failed. Then
+Custer, with the whole division, tried it, but he, too, failed. Charge and
+charge again, was now the order, but it was done in driblets, without
+organization and in great disorder. General Custer was here, there, and
+everywhere, urging the men forward with cheers and oaths. The great prize
+was so nearly in his grasp that it seemed a pity to lose it; but the rebel
+infantry held on hard and fast, while his artillery belched out death and
+destruction on every side of us. Merritt and night were fast coming on, so
+as soon as a force, however small, was organized, it was hurled forward,
+only to recoil in confusion and loss. Confident that this mode of fighting
+would not bring us success, and fearful lest the enemy should assume the
+offensive, which, in our disorganized state, must result in disaster, I
+went to General Custer soon after dark, and said to him that if he would
+let me get my regiment together, I could break through the rebel line. He
+excitedly replied, "Never mind your regiment; take anything and everything
+you can find, horse-holders and all, and break through: we must get hold
+of the pike to-night." Acting on this order, a force was soon organized by
+me, composed chiefly of the Second New York, but in part of other
+regiments, undistinguishable in the darkness. With this I made a charge
+down a narrow lane, which led to an open field where the rebel artillery
+was posted. As the charging column debouched from the woods, six bright
+lights suddenly flashed directly before us. A toronado of canister-shot
+swept over our heads, and the next instant we were in the battery. The
+line was broken, and the enemy routed. Custer, with the whole division,
+now pressed through the gap pell-mell, in hot pursuit, halting for neither
+prisoners nor guns, until the road to Lynchburg, crowded with wagons and
+artillery, was in our possession. We then turned short to the right and
+headed for the Appomattox Court House; but just before reaching it we
+discovered the thousands of camp fires of the rebel army, and the pursuit
+was checked. The enemy had gone into camp, in fancied security that his
+route to Lynchburg was still open before him; and he little dreamed that
+our cavalry had planted itself directly across his path, until some of our
+men dashed into Appomattox Court House, where, unfortunately, Lieutenant
+Colonel Root, of the Fifteenth New York Cavalry, was instantly killed by a
+picket guard. After we had seized the road, we were joined by other
+divisions of the cavalry corps which came to our assistance, but too late
+to take part in the fight.
+
+Owing to the night attack, our regiments were so mixed up that it took
+hours to reorganize them. When this was effected, we marched near to the
+railroad station and bivouacked.
+
+That night was passed in great anxiety. We threw ourselves on the ground
+to rest, but not to sleep. We knew that the infantry was hastening to our
+assistance, but unless they joined us before sunrise, our cavalry line
+would be brushed away, and the rebels would escape after all our hard work
+to head them off from Lynchburg. About daybreak I was aroused by loud
+hurrahs, and was told that Ord's corps was coming up rapidly, and forming
+in rear of our cavalry. Soon after we were in the saddle and moving
+towards the Appomattox Court House road, where the firing was growing
+lively; but suddenly our direction was changed, and the whole cavalry
+corps rode at a gallop to the right of our line, passing between the
+position of the rebels and the rapidly forming masses of our infantry, who
+greeted us with cheers and shouts of joy as we galloped along their front.
+At several places we had to "run the gauntlet" of fire from the enemy's
+guns posted around the Court House, but this only added to the interest
+of the scene, for we felt it to be the last expiring effort of the enemy
+to put on a bold front; we knew that we had them this time, and that at
+last Lee's proud army of Northern Virginia was at our mercy. While moving
+at almost a charging gait we were suddenly brought to a halt by reports of
+a surrender. General Sheridan and his staff rode up, and left in hot haste
+for the Court House; but just after leaving us, they were fired into by a
+party of rebel cavalry, who also opened fire on us, to which we promptly
+replied, and soon put them to flight. Our lines were then formed for a
+charge on the rebel infantry; but while the bugles were sounding the
+charge, an officer with a white flag rode out from the rebel lines, and we
+halted. It was fortunate for us that we halted when we did, for had we
+charged we would have been swept into eternity, as directly in our front
+was a creek, on the other side of which was a rebel brigade, entrenched,
+with batteries in position, the guns double shotted with canister. To have
+charged this formidable array, mounted, would have resulted in almost
+total annihilation. After we had halted, we were informed that
+preliminaries were being arranged for the surrender of Lee's whole army.
+At this news, cheer after cheer rent the air for a few moments, when soon
+all became as quiet as if nothing unusual had occurred. I rode forward
+between the lines with Custer and Pennington, and met several old friends
+among the rebels, who came out to see us. Among them, I remember Lee
+(Gimlet), of Virginia, and Cowan, of North Carolina. I saw General Cadmus
+Wilcox just across the creek, walking to and fro with his eyes on the
+ground, just as was his wont when he was instructor at West Point. I
+called to him, but he paid no attention, except to glance at me in a
+hostile manner.
+
+While we were thus discussing the probable terms of the surrender, General
+Lee, in full uniform, accompanied by one of his staff, and General
+Babcock, of General Grant's staff, rode from the Court House towards our
+lines. As he passed us, we all raised our caps in salute, which he
+gracefully returned.
+
+Later in the day loud and continuous cheering was heard among the rebels,
+which was taken up and echoed by our lines until the air was rent with
+cheers, when all as suddenly subsided. The surrender was a fixed fact, and
+the rebels were overjoyed at the very liberal terms they had received. Our
+men, without arms, approached the rebel lines, and divided their rations
+with the half-starved foe, and engaged in quiet, friendly conversation.
+There was no bluster nor braggadocia,--nothing but quiet contentment that
+the rebellion was crushed, and the war ended. In fact, many of the rebels
+seemed as much pleased as we were. Now and then one would meet a surly,
+dissatisfied look; but, as a general thing, we met smiling faces and hands
+eager and ready to grasp our own, especially if they contained anything to
+eat or drink. After the surrender, I rode over to the Court House with
+Colonel Pennington and others and visited the house in which the surrender
+had taken place, in search of some memento of the occasion. We found that
+everything had been appropriated before our arrival. Mr. Wilmer McLean, in
+whose house the surrender took place, informed us that on his farm at
+Manassas the first battle of Bull Run was fought. I asked him to write his
+name in my diary, for which, much to his surprise. I gave him a dollar.
+Others did the same, and I was told that he thus received quite a golden
+harvest.
+
+While all of the regiments of the division shared largely in the glories
+of these two days, none excelled the Second New York Cavalry in its record
+of great and glorious deeds. Well might its officers and men carry their
+heads high, and feel elated with pride as they received the
+congratulations and commendations showered on them from all sides. They
+felt they had done their duty, and given the "tottering giant" a blow that
+laid him prostrate at their feet, never, it is to be hoped, to rise again.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+The following misprints have been corrected:
+  "crowed" corrected to "crowded" (page 7)
+  "on on" corrected to "on" (page 9)
+  "unusal" corrected to "unusual" (page 9)
+
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+  THE FASCINATING
+  BOSTON
+
+  How to Dance and How to Teach the
+  Popular New Social Favorite
+
+  _By_
+  ALFONSO JOSEPHS SHEAFE
+  Master of Dancing
+
+  _Translator and Editor of
+  Zorn's Grammar of the Art of Dancing_
+
+
+  Boston, Mass.
+  THE BOSTON MUSIC COMPANY
+  New York: G. Schirmer, Incorporated
+
+  Copyright, 1913, by
+  THE BOSTON MUSIC CO.
+  For all countries
+
+
+  B. M. Co. 3366
+
+
+
+
+Table of Contents
+
+
+                                 Page
+
+FOREWORD                            1
+
+THE BOSTON
+  THE FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS         5
+  THE POSITION OF THE PARTNERS      8
+  THE STEP OF THE BOSTON           12
+  THE LONG BOSTON                  22
+  THE SHORT BOSTON                 23
+  THE OPEN BOSTON                  24
+  THE BOSTON DIP                   25
+
+THE TURKEY TROT                    27
+
+THE AEROPLANE GLIDE                28
+
+THE TANGO                          29
+
+
+
+
+THE FASCINATING BOSTON
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+Since the introduction of the waltz, more than a hundred years ago, it
+has held the first place in the esteem of dancers throughout the
+civilized world. There has appeared, however, a new claimant for the
+place--one that possesses all the qualities that go to make a social
+favorite, and has the additional advantages of greater ease of
+execution, and wider possibilities of adaptation.
+
+This is the BOSTON--not, as many persons suppose, a new creation nor
+indeed is it a novelty even to the American public, for it was
+introduced here more than a generation ago; but the great popularity of
+the Two-Step, which had just then come into vogue, and was fast gaining
+favor under the influence of such brilliant compositions as the
+quick-step marches by Sousa, operated against its immediate acceptance.
+
+One of the reasons why the Boston should prove today a more attractive
+dance than any other, is the fact that now there are more captivating
+airs written for this particular form of dance than for any other, and
+as the Two-Step, in its time, found its most powerful ally in the music
+to which it was adapted, the Boston has today the persuasive
+intercession of such languorous and haunting melodies as "Love's
+Awakening" and "On the Wings of Dream," by Danglas; Sinibaldi's
+"Thrill," and others.
+
+General taste has gradually found out the superior charm of the Boston;
+the pendulum of public favor has again swung in the direction of skilful
+dancing.
+
+The recent revival of the Waltz in its proper form, has brought with it
+a larger appreciation of the more worthy and graceful social dances,
+and the entire world now recognizes the wonderful beauty of the Boston,
+and has welcomed it as a real competitor.
+
+The Boston is not a Waltz, yet it is the perfection of it. It is one of
+those paradoxical things which, while it is impossible to be classified,
+contains all that is to be found in almost any other dance. Even the
+persons who have so long and so loyally clung to other forms of dancing,
+and have abated none in their zeal for their favorites, have been
+unconsciously, and perhaps unwillingly, charmed by the seductiveness of
+the Boston, until they now freely declare the new dance to be the
+superior of the Waltz. Therefore it is safe to say that the Boston will,
+eventually, supersede the Waltz altogether.
+
+We demand a dance which combines ease of execution with attractive
+movement. That is just what the Boston does, and perhaps more. It is so
+simple in construction that, when acquired, it becomes natural, and its
+perfect adaptability assures it lasting popularity.
+
+Owing to the urgent request of many of his pupils and colleagues, the
+author has undertaken this little book in the hope that it will meet the
+requirements of both teachers and students, and help to assure the
+proper appreciation of what is in reality the most delightful and
+artistic social dance since the Minuet.
+
+
+THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS
+
+In order that the reader may the more readily understand the
+descriptions given in this book, we will explain the five fundamental
+positions upon which the art of dancing rests.
+
+In the 1st position, the feet are together, heel against heel.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+In the 2nd position, the heels are separated sidewise, and on the same
+line.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+In the 3rd position, the heel of one foot touches the middle of the
+other.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+In the 4th position, the feet are separated as in walking, either
+directly forward or directly backward.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+In the 5th position, the heel of one foot touches the point of the
+other.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+In all these positions the feet must be turned outward to form not less
+than a right angle.
+
+
+THE POSITIONS OF THE PARTNERS
+
+Much, if not all, of the adverse criticism of the Boston which has been
+offered by educators, parents and other responsible objectors, has been
+directed at the relative positions of the partners. This is, in fact, no
+more than the general rule as regards the Social Round Dance, with the
+possible exception that the positions have been sometimes distorted by
+attempts to copy the freer forms of dancing that have been presented
+upon the stage.
+
+The Round Dance demands that a certain fixed grouping of the partners be
+maintained in order that the rotation around a common moving centre may
+be accomplished, and it is here that the most serious problem is to be
+found.
+
+The dancing profession long ago undertook to settle upon arbitrary
+groupings satisfactory to the needs of the dancers, and conforming to
+all the requirements of propriety and hygienic exercise.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+Acting upon this basis, the reputable teachers of dancing throughout the
+world have adopted and promulgated three fundamental groupings for the
+Round Dance which are so constructed as to provide the greatest ease of
+execution and freedom of action. They are known as the Waltz Position,
+the Open Position, and the Side Position of the Waltz. All round dances
+are executed in one or another of these groupings, which are not only
+accepted by all good teachers, but, with the exception of certain minor
+and unimportant variations, rigidly adhered to in all their work.
+
+In the Waltz Position the partners stand facing one another, with
+shoulders parallel, and looking over one another's right shoulder.
+Special attention must be paid to the parallel position of the
+shoulders, in order to fit the individual movements of the partners
+along the line of direction.
+
+The gentleman places his right hand lightly upon the lady's back, at a
+point about half-way across, between the waist-line and the
+shoulder-blades. The fingers are so rounded as to permit the free
+circulation of air between the palm of the hand and the lady's back, and
+should not be spread.
+
+The lady places her left hand lightly upon the gentleman's arm, allowing
+her fore-arm to rest gently upon his arm. The partners stand at an easy
+distance from one another, inclining toward the common centre very
+slightly. The free hands are lightly joined at the side. This is merely
+to provide occupation for the disengaged arms, and the gentleman holds
+the tip of the lady's hand lightly in the bended fingers of his own.
+Guiding is accomplished by the gentleman through a slight lifting of his
+right elbow.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+THE OPEN POSITION
+
+The Open Position needs no explanation, and can be readily understood
+from the illustration facing page 8.
+
+
+THE SIDE POSITION OF THE WALTZ
+
+The side position of the Waltz differs from the Waltz Position only in
+the fact that the partners stand side by side and with the engaged arms
+more widely extended. The free arms are held as in the frontispiece. In
+the actual rotation this position naturally resolves itself into the
+regular Waltz Position.
+
+
+THE STEP OF THE BOSTON
+
+The preparatory step of the Boston differs materially from that of any
+other Social Dance. There is _only one position_ of the feet in the
+Boston--the 4th. That is to say, the feet are separated one from the
+other as in walking.
+
+On the first count of the measure the whole leg swings freely, and as a
+unit, from the hip, and the foot is put down practically flat upon the
+floor, where it immediately receives the entire weight of the body
+_perpendicularly_. The weight is held entirely upon this foot during the
+remainder of the measure, whether it be in 3/4 or 2/4 time.
+
+The following preparatory exercises must be practiced forward and
+backward until the movements become natural, before proceeding.
+
+In going backward, the foot must be carried to the rear as far as
+possible, and the weight must always be perpendicular to the supporting
+foot.
+
+These movements are identical with walking, and except the particular
+care which must be bestowed upon the placing of the foot on the first
+count of the measure, they require no special degree of attention.
+
+On the second count the free leg swings forward until the knee has
+become entirely straightened, and is held, suspended, during the third
+count of the measure. This should be practiced, first with the weight
+resting upon the entire sole of the supporting foot, and then, when this
+has been perfectly accomplished, the same exercise may be supplemented
+by raising the heel (of the supporting foot) on the second count and
+lowering it on the third count. _Great care must be taken not to divide
+the weight._
+
+For the purpose of instruction, it is well to practice these steps to
+Mazurka music, because of the clearness of the count.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+When the foregoing exercises have been so fully mastered as to become,
+in a sense, muscular habits, we may, with safety, add the next feature.
+This consists in touching the floor with the point of the free foot, at
+a point as far forward or backward as can be done without dividing the
+weight, on the second count of the measure. Thus, we have accomplished,
+as it were, an interrupted, or, at least, an arrested step, and this is
+the true essence of the Boston.
+
+Too great care cannot be expended upon this phase of the step, and it
+must be practiced over and over again, both forward and backward, until
+the movement has become second nature. All this must precede any attempt
+to turn.
+
+The turning of the Boston is simplicity itself, but it is, nevertheless,
+the one point in the instruction which is most bothersome to
+learners. The turn is executed upon the ball of _the supporting foot_,
+and consists in twisting half round without lifting either foot from the
+ground. In this, the weight is held altogether upon the supporting foot,
+and there is no crossing.
+
+In carrying the foot forward for the second movement, the knees must
+pass close to one another, and care must be taken that _the entire half
+turn comes upon the last count of the measure_.
+
+To sum up:--
+
+Starting with the weight upon the left foot, step forward, placing the
+entire weight upon the right foot, as in the illustration facing page 14
+(count 1); swing left leg quickly forward, straightening the left knee
+and raising the right heel, and touch the floor with the extended left
+foot as in the illustration facing page 16, but without placing any
+weight upon that foot (count 2); execute a half-turn to the left,
+backward, upon the ball of the supporting (right) foot, at the same time
+lowering the right heel, and finish as in the illustration opposite page
+18 (count 3).      One measure.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+Starting again, this time with the weight wholly upon the right foot,
+and with the left leg extended backward, and the point of the left foot
+lightly touching the floor, step backward, throwing the weight entirely
+upon the left foot which sinks to a position flat upon the floor, as
+shown in the illustration facing page 21, (count 4); carry the right
+foot quickly backward, and touch with the point as far back as possible
+upon the line of direction without dividing the weight, at the same time
+raising the left heel as in the illustration facing page 22, (count 5);
+and complete the rotation by executing a half-turn to the right,
+forward, upon the ball of the left foot, simultaneously lowering the
+left heel, and finishing as in the illustration facing page 24, (count
+6).
+
+
+THE REVERSE
+
+The reverse of the step should be acquired at the same time as the
+rotation to the right, and it is, therefore, of great importance to
+alternate from the right to the left rotation from the beginning of the
+turning exercise. The reverse itself, that is to say, the act of
+alternating is effected in a single measure without turning (see
+preparatory exercise, page 13) which may be taken backward by the
+gentleman and forward by the lady, whenever they have completed a whole
+turn.
+
+The mechanism of the reverse turn is exactly the same as that of the
+turn to the right, except that it is accomplished with the other foot,
+and in the opposite direction.
+
+There is no better or more efficacious exercise to perfect the Boston,
+than that which is made up of one complete turn to the right, a measure
+to reverse, and a complete turn to the left. This should be practised
+until one has entirely mastered the motion and rhythm of the dance. The
+writer has used this exercise in all his work, and finds it not only
+helpful and interesting to the pupil, but of special advantage in
+obviating the possibility of dizziness, and the consequent
+unpleasantness and loss of time.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+After acquiring a degree of ease in the execution of these movements to
+Mazurka music, it is advisable to vary the rhythm by the introduction of
+Spanish or other clearly accented Waltz music, before using the more
+liquid compositions of Strauss or such modern song waltzes as those of
+Danglas, Sinibaldi, etc.
+
+It is one of the remarkable features of the Boston that the weight is
+always opposite the line of direction--that is to say, in going forward,
+the weight is retained upon the rear foot, and in going backward, the
+weight is always upon the front foot (direction always radiates from the
+dancer). Thus, in proceeding around the room, the weight must always be
+held back, instead of inclining slightly forward as in the other round
+dances. This seeming contradiction of forces lends to the Boston a
+unique charm which is to be found in no other dance.
+
+As the dancer becomes more familiar with the Boston, the movement
+becomes so natural that little or no thought need be paid to technique,
+in order to develop the peculiar grace of it.
+
+The fact of its being a dance altogether in one position calls for
+greater skill in the execution of the Boston, than would be the case if
+there were other changes and contrasts possible, just as it is more
+difficult to play a melody upon a violin of only one string.
+
+The Boston, in its completed form, resolves itself into a sort of
+walking movement, so natural and easy that it may be enjoyed for a
+whole evening without more fatigue than would be the result of a single
+hour of the Waltz and Two-Step.
+
+Aside from the attractiveness of the Boston as a social dance, its
+physical benefits are more positive than those of any other Round Dance
+that we have ever had. The action is so adjusted as to provide the
+maximum of muscular exercise and the minimum of physical effort. This
+tends towards the conservation of energy, and produces and maintains, at
+the same time an evenness of blood pressure and circulation. The
+movements also necessitate a constant exercise of the ankles and insteps
+which is very strengthening to those parts, and cannot fail to raise and
+support the arch of the foot.
+
+Taken from any standpoint, the Boston is one of the most worthy forms of
+the social dance ever devised, and the distortions of position which
+are now occasionally practiced must soon give way to the genuinely
+refining influence of the action.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+Of the various forms of the Boston, there is little to be said beyond
+the description of the manner of their execution, which will be treated
+in the following pages.
+
+It is hoped that this book will help toward a more complete
+understanding of the beauties and attractions of the Boston, and further
+the proper appreciation of it.
+
+
+_All descriptions of dances given in this book relate to the lady's
+part. The gentleman's is exactly the same, but in the countermotion._
+
+
+THE LONG BOSTON
+
+The ordinary form of the Boston as described in the foregoing pages is
+commonly known as the "Long" Boston to distinguish it from other forms
+and variations. It is danced in 3/4 time, either Waltz or Mazurka, and
+at any tempo desired. As this is the fundamental form of the Boston, it
+should be thoroughly acquired before undertaking any other.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+THE SHORT BOSTON
+
+The "Short" Boston differs from the "Long" Boston only in measure. It is
+danced in either 2/4 or 6/8 time, and the first movement (in 2/4 time)
+occupies the duration of a quarter-note. The second and third movements
+each occupy the duration of an eighth-note. Thus, there exists between
+the "Long" and the "Short" Boston the same difference as between the
+Waltz and the Galop. In the more rapid forms of the "Short" Boston, the
+rising and sinking upon the second and third movements naturally take
+the form of a hop or skip. The dance is more enjoyable and less
+fatiguing in moderate tempo.
+
+
+THE OPEN BOSTON
+
+The "Open" Boston contains two parts of eight measures each. The first
+part is danced in the positions shown in the illustrations facing pages
+8 and 10, and the second part consists of 8 measures of the "Long"
+Boston.
+
+In the first part, the dancers execute three Boston steps forward,
+without turning, and one Boston step turning (towards the partner) to
+face directly backward (1/2 turn).      4 measures.
+
+This is followed by three Boston steps backward (without turning) in the
+position shown in the illustration facing page 10, followed by one
+Boston step turning (toward the partner) and finishing in regular Waltz
+Position for the execution of the second part.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+THE BOSTON DIP
+
+The "Dip" is a combination dance in 3/4 or 3/8 time, and contains 4
+measures of the "Long" Boston, preceded by 4 measures, as follows:
+
+Standing upon the left foot, step directly to the side, and transfer the
+weight to the right foot (count 1); swing the left leg to the right in
+front of the right, at the same time raising the right heel (count 2);
+lower the right heel (count 3); return the left foot to its original
+place where it receives the weight (count 4); swing the right leg across
+in front of the left, raising the left heel (count 5); and lower the
+left heel (count 6).      2 measures.
+
+Swing the right foot to the right, and put it down directly at the side
+of the left (count 1); hop on the right foot and swing the left across
+in front (count 2); fall back upon the right foot (count 3); put down
+the left foot, crossing in front of the right, and transfer weight to it
+(count 4); with right foot step a whole step to the right (count 5); and
+finish by bringing the left foot against the right, where it receives
+the weight (count 6).      2 measures.
+
+In executing the hop upon counts 2 and 3 of the third measure, the
+movement must be so far delayed that the falling back will exactly
+coincide with the third count of the music.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE TURKEY TROT
+
+_Preparation:--Side Position of the Waltz._
+
+
+During the first four measures take four Boston steps without turning
+(lady forward, gentleman backward), and bending the supporting knee,
+stretch the free foot backward, (lady's left, gentleman's right) as
+shown in the illustration opposite.      4 meas.
+
+Repeat in opposite direction.      4 meas.
+
+Execute four drawing steps to the side (lady's right, gentleman's left)
+swaying the shoulders and body in the direction of the drawn foot, and
+pointing with the free foot upon the fourth, as shown in figure.
+4 meas.
+
+Repeat in opposite direction.      4 meas.
+
+Eight whole turns, Short Boston or Two-Step.      16 meas.
+
+Repeat at will.
+
+      *       *       *       *       *
+
+  A splendid specimen for this dance will be found in "The Gobbler" by
+  J. Monroe.
+
+
+
+
+THE AEROPLANE GLIDE
+
+
+The "Aeroplane Glide" is very similar to the Boston Dip. It is supposed
+to represent the start of the flight of an aeroplane, and derives its
+name from that fact.
+
+The sole difference between the "Dip" and "Aeroplane" consists in the
+six running steps which make up the first two measures. Of these running
+steps, which are executed sidewise and with alternate crossings, before
+and behind, only the fourth, at the beginning of the second measure
+requires special description. Upon this step, the supporting knee is
+noticeably bended to coincide with the accent of the music.
+
+The rest of the dance is identical with the "Dip". (See page 25.)
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE TANGO
+
+
+The Tango is a Spanish American dance which contains much of the
+peculiar charm of the other Spanish dances, and its execution depends
+largely upon the ability of the dancers so to grasp the rhythm of the
+music as to interpret it by their movements. The steps are all simple,
+and the dancers are permitted to vary or improvise the figures at will.
+
+Of these figures the two which follow are most common, and lend
+themselves most readily to verbal description.
+
+
+TANGO No. 1
+
+The partners face one another as in Waltz Position. The gentleman takes
+the lady's right hand in his left, and, stretching the arms to the full
+extent, holding them at the shoulder height, he places her right hand
+upon his left shoulder, and holds it there, as in the illustration
+opposite page 30.
+
+In starting, the gentleman throws his right shoulder slightly back and
+steps directly backward with his left foot, while the lady follows
+forward with her right. In this manner both continue two steps, crossing
+one foot over the other and then execute a half-turn in the same
+direction. This is followed by four measures of the Two-Step and the
+whole is repeated at will.      8 measures.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+TANGO No. 2
+
+This variant starts from the same position as Tango No. 1. The gentleman
+takes two steps backward with the lady following forward, and then two
+steps to the side (the lady's right and the gentleman's left) and two
+steps in the opposite direction to the original position.
+8 measures.
+
+These steps to the side should be marked by the swaying of the bodies as
+the feet are drawn together on the second count of the measure, and the
+whole is followed by 8 measures of the Two-Step. Repeat all as desired.
+
+
+
+
+IDEAL MUSIC FOR THE "BOSTON"
+
+
+PIANO SOLO
+
+(_Also to be had for Full or Small Orchestra_)
+
+LOVE'S AWAKENING           _J. Danglas_        .60
+ON THE WINGS OF DREAM      _J. Danglas_        .60
+FRISSON (Thrill!)          _S. Sinibaldi_      .50
+LOVE'S TRIUMPH             _A. Daniele_        .60
+DOUCEMENT                  _G. Robert_         .60
+VIENNOISE                  _A. Duval_          .60
+
+These selected numbers have attained success, not alone for their
+attractions of melody and rich harmony, but for their rhythmical
+flexibility and perfect adaptedness to the "Boston."
+
+
+FOR THE TURKEY TROT
+
+Especially recommended
+
+THE GOBBLER                _J. Monroe_         .50
+
+
+Any of the foregoing compositions will be supplied on receipt of
+one-half the list price. Postage two cents extra for each copy.
+
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+
+THE BOSTON MUSIC COMPANY 26 & 28 WEST ST., BOSTON, MASS.
+
+
+
+
+TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
+
+
+  Text in italics is surrounded with underscores: _italics_.
+
+  Punctuation has been corrected without note.
+
+  Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
+    Page  8: duplicate word "the" removed
+    Page 23: duplicate word "and" removed
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's The Fascinating Boston, by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe
+
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