. Bill Nye's history of the United States. t he got the best terms he could out of theIndians, but still it is claimed that they were satis-fied, therefore he did not cheat them. The Indian, as will be noticed by reading thesepages thoughtfully, was never a Napoleon offinance. He is that way down to the present you watch him carefully and notice his ways,you can dicker with him to better advantage thanyou can with Russell Sage. Take the Indian just before breakfast after twoor three nights of debauchery, and offer him a jugof absinthe with a horned toad in it for his pony andsaddle, an
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. t he got the best terms he could out of theIndians, but still it is claimed that they were satis-fied, therefore he did not cheat them. The Indian, as will be noticed by reading thesepages thoughtfully, was never a Napoleon offinance. He is that way down to the present you watch him carefully and notice his ways,you can dicker with him to better advantage thanyou can with Russell Sage. Take the Indian just before breakfast after twoor three nights of debauchery, and offer him a jugof absinthe with a horned toad in it for his pony andsaddle, and you will get them. Even in his moresober and thoughtful moments you can swap asuit of red medicated flannels with him for a farm. Penn gathered about him many different kindsof people, with various sorts and shades of beliefSome were Free-Will and some were were High-Church and reminded one of aMasonic Lodge working at 32°, while others wereLow-Church and omitted crossing themselves fre- 96 HISTORY OF THE UNITED A FEW OF PENN S PEOPLE. quently while puttingdown a new carpet inthe chancel. But he was too wellknown at court, andsuspectedof knowl-edge ofand par-ticipation^^ in some ofthe ques-tionableacts of King James, so that after the latters dethrone-ment, and an intimation that Penn had communi-cated with the exiled monarch, Penn was deprivedof his title to Pennsylvania, for which he hadtwice paid. Penn was a constant sufferer at the hands ofhis associates, who sought to injure him in everyway. He rounded out a life of suffering bymarrying the second time in 1695. In 1708 he was on the verge of bankruptcy,owing to the villany and mismanagement of hisagent, and was thrown into Fleet Street Prison,a jail in which he had never before been health gave way afterwards, and this remark-able man died July 30, 1718. SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES. gj Philadelphia was founded in 1683 ^^^ workbegun on a beautiful building known as the CityHall.
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