. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. This cut is from The Little Readers Assistant, byNoah Webster, author of the Dictionary. It shows the cleverescape of an Indian ally of the whites who, being pursuedby one of Iving Philips men, hid behind a rock and, raising hisheadgear on the barrel of his gun, drew the fire of his reload the gun, a flint lock, took so much time that the firstIndian escaped. KING PHILIPS WAR 69 and pulled the bushes over him. Although stepped on bymore
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. This cut is from The Little Readers Assistant, byNoah Webster, author of the Dictionary. It shows the cleverescape of an Indian ally of the whites who, being pursuedby one of Iving Philips men, hid behind a rock and, raising hisheadgear on the barrel of his gun, drew the fire of his reload the gun, a flint lock, took so much time that the firstIndian escaped. KING PHILIPS WAR 69 and pulled the bushes over him. Although stepped on bymore than one Indian, he lay quiet until all was over. Thisconflict is known as the battle of Bloody Brook. A monumentnear by now marks the burial place of the Cradle op the Pynchon Family, Now in the Old Day House. 70 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD THE STATUE OF THE PURITAN IN MERRICK PARK. With sober foot unswerving, lip severe, And lid that droops to shield the inner sight;Dark-browed, stem-willed, a shadow in the light Of alien times, and yet no alien here; Revered and dreaded, loved, but yet with fear;He moves, the somber shade of that old nightWhence grew our mom, the ghost of that grim might That nursed to strength the Nations youth austere. Mark the grave thought that lines the hollow cheek. The hardy hand that guards the sacred book, The sinewy limb, and what the thin lips speak Of iron will to mould the era—look In reverence, and as ye mutely scan The heroic figure, see, rough-limned, a man! —Whitmore, 1852.
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