. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . e of their villages which stood not above a milefrom fathers cave. There we saw beautifully fashionedspoons made of handsome white wood, which thesavages said was spoon-wood; but father told us itshould be called laurel. Now, you must know that many of the savagesused seashells, sharpened to a keen edge, in the steadof knives, and with these bits of shell one could hollowout the bowl of a spoon more neatly than with a pocket-knife, besides which, it was to me interesting to usesuch odd tools. STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA To make a longstory shor
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . e of their villages which stood not above a milefrom fathers cave. There we saw beautifully fashionedspoons made of handsome white wood, which thesavages said was spoon-wood; but father told us itshould be called laurel. Now, you must know that many of the savagesused seashells, sharpened to a keen edge, in the steadof knives, and with these bits of shell one could hollowout the bowl of a spoon more neatly than with a pocket-knife, besides which, it was to me interesting to usesuch odd tools. STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA To make a longstory short, Jethroand I set aboutmaking these wood-en spoons, andsoon learned to dothe work so deftlythat we could turnout even betterwares than did thesavages. At first we hadgiven our time tosuch labor becauseof its being pleasingto us; but we soon found that it was possible to sell asmany as could be made, for it was slow work, andfrom that day on we drove a brisk business, being sotaken up with it as to give over roaming in theforest with the other CHOOSING THE PLACE FOR THE CITY When warm weather came again, we no longer hadtime for spoon-making, for shipload after shipload ofpeople came over from England until, so my fatherbelieved, we had no fewer than nine hundred, counting CHOOSING THE PLACE FOR THE CITY 53 men, women, and children, living as best they mightalong the river at whatsoever point seemed to them themost likely place for the building of the city. Thomas Holme, who was to decide the matter,acting upon advice from William Penn, had alreadycome among us, and went here and there, in the com-pany of the chief men, until he was convinced thathe had found the one place of all others for our cityof Philadelphia. We who had come over in the John and Sarah weremore than satisfied with his choice, for, if you please,he had hit upon the very spot where we had dug ourcaves, and thus, by merest chance, had we come to thatsection of the country of Pennsylvania where we hadmo
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