. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... arose the wild cry, The Indians ! The Indians! Every man seized the gun which stood by him. The womenhuddled the children together, and stood close in the little logchurch, with faces pale as death. The men met the red foe bravely, 132 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. but the surprise was so great, and the numbers so unequal, thatthe Indians were fast gaining an advantage. All at once, in themiddle of the fight, appeared a man of towering height,
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... arose the wild cry, The Indians ! The Indians! Every man seized the gun which stood by him. The womenhuddled the children together, and stood close in the little logchurch, with faces pale as death. The men met the red foe bravely, 132 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. but the surprise was so great, and the numbers so unequal, thatthe Indians were fast gaining an advantage. All at once, in themiddle of the fight, appeared a man of towering height, with longstreaming hair and beard, dressed in strange wild fashion. Hecame among the white men like a strong deliverer. Wherever hewent the Indians fell before him. The courage of the Enghshbegan to rise. They thought God had sent a warlike angel, orthe spirit of some great Hebrew prophet whom they revered, tolead them out of this sore strait, and gathering all their strengththey beat back the enemy. When the fight was over the strangerhad disappeared as quickly as he had come. It was not until long after that it was discovered who this un-. Cave of the Regicides. known helper was. Many believed to their dying day that hewas not mortal man. But long after this story was told : WhenKing Charles I. had his head cut off in England, four-and-twentyPuritan judges signed the sentence of death. In the time of Crom-well, these judges were men of distinction in England, but as soonas Charles II. came to be king, he offered a reward for theheads of the men who had condemned his father. Two of them,Edward Whalley and William Goffe, got away to America, andwere concealed here, and secretly harbored by the Puritans. They KING FHILirS WAR. 133 were known as the Regicides, which means years they were in many hiding-places. They Hved in woodsand caves, sometimes daring to seek shelter in lonely farm-houses,where the people sympathized with them. There is to-day a placein th
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