Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . colony in which people might believe as seemed to themright and not after the law of any council. The rulers heard of this and decided to send him at once to Englandbut they did not succeed in doing so; for he was warned by his friendi:just in time to make his escape. It was in the middle of a bleak, coldNew England winter; but there was no time to lose, and so, leaving hiswife and children behind in safety, he fled from Salem to find refuge inthe wilderness. Snow lay thick upon
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . colony in which people might believe as seemed to themright and not after the law of any council. The rulers heard of this and decided to send him at once to Englandbut they did not succeed in doing so; for he was warned by his friendi:just in time to make his escape. It was in the middle of a bleak, coldNew England winter; but there was no time to lose, and so, leaving hiswife and children behind in safety, he fled from Salem to find refuge inthe wilderness. Snow lay thick upon the ground, marked here and there with thefootprints of wild beasts. He could hear their voices, too, at night as hecrouched in the shelter of some hollow tree or lay in the smoky hut of the friendly Indians, from whom he also begged his food. Theywere, he said, * the ravens that fed me in the wilderness. In his other exile at Plymouth, Williams had known Massasoit, thegreat Indian king; he had then made him presents and shown him muchkindness, for he felt that the white men owed a good deal to the red. 246 ROGER WILLIAMS SEEKING REFUGE AMONG THE INDIANS. ROGER WILLIAMS. 247 together they began to bmld ^^^^It^Zor Wint^ro,,.^o rsrti;\re:atrwii^2^^^^ tlie other sideof the water,where hemight havethe whole ofthe countrybefore him,audbeasfreeas they , in ashort time, hetook leave of his fields of sprouting corn and his unfinished
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