. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . erly array,Jethro and I holding our heads so high, lest we should IN LORD BALTIMORES CITY show ourselves louts, that we failed to see very muchof the town until arriving at Lord Baltimores house,and verily it was more beautiful than I had believedpossible. Here we halted, and William Penn, with the eldersof his party, entered the wonderful building, but withoutleaving any commandsfor us who representedthe guard of honor, andduring a certain timewe stood there on thestreet looking this wayor that, not knowingwhat it was our duty todo. Had no
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . erly array,Jethro and I holding our heads so high, lest we should IN LORD BALTIMORES CITY show ourselves louts, that we failed to see very muchof the town until arriving at Lord Baltimores house,and verily it was more beautiful than I had believedpossible. Here we halted, and William Penn, with the eldersof his party, entered the wonderful building, but withoutleaving any commandsfor us who representedthe guard of honor, andduring a certain timewe stood there on thestreet looking this wayor that, not knowingwhat it was our duty todo. Had not GovernorPenn been a Friend,and therefore forbiddenby his faith to takeany part in warlike proceedings, we two lads wouldhave been called members of his body guard. Since,however, a Quaker could not well surround himselfwith soldiers, we were, in a certain sense hangers on,as Jethro put it, and had good reason to believe weshould be forced to shift for ourselves in the matterof food and lodgings. Because of such belief we were filled with astonish-. STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA ment when, as we were turning away from his lord-ships palace with its guard of armored soldiers, wewere accosted by a young fellow of sprightly appearance, whose gorgeous costume toldthat he must be of Baltimoresfollowing. Speaking to us in a friendlytone, with no evidence ofwanting to turn up his nosebecause of our grimy hands,which he must already havenoticed, for the tokens of theforge were all the more plainlyto be seen because of our wrist-falls of lace, he asked where itwas our pleasure to go. I was not so puffed up as tobelieve that my Lord Baltimorefelt any care concerning us, therefore I replied lightly,making it appear as if we gave no thought con-cerning the future; but he soon made it plain that hehad been charged with our welfare. If we had been young lords, he could not have beenmore kindly as he explained that Baltimore could notgive all of Penns following quarters at the palace, be-cause of
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