. Our colonial homes. ific facts set forth by the reverend narrator : — In the cellar under this house was deposited, for a considera-ble length of time, the head of King Philip ; for it seems that evenPhilip himself shared the fate of kings : he was decollated, and hishead carried about and shown as a curiosity by one Alderman, theIndian who shot him. And again, in the same convincing vein : Under the doorstepsof the same building now lie buried the bones of two unfortunatevoting women who in their flight here were shot down by theIndians, and their blood was seen to run quite across the road
. Our colonial homes. ific facts set forth by the reverend narrator : — In the cellar under this house was deposited, for a considera-ble length of time, the head of King Philip ; for it seems that evenPhilip himself shared the fate of kings : he was decollated, and hishead carried about and shown as a curiosity by one Alderman, theIndian who shot him. And again, in the same convincing vein : Under the doorstepsof the same building now lie buried the bones of two unfortunatevoting women who in their flight here were shot down by theIndians, and their blood was seen to run quite across the road. THE OLD GOTHIC HOUSE 195 These thrilling tales did not lack for a certain air of our little world, at least, has heard of King Philip, that re-doubted avenger of his race who chose death before dishonor ; andmany of us have also heard of the Leonards of Taunton, who areso intimately associated with this spot of ground, and who, more-over, have so often been described to us as having gained the fast. RUINS OF THE LEONARD FORGE, RAYNHAM, MASS. friendship of that mighty chieftain — a friendship formed by hismaking the forge a halting-place as he passed up and clown betweenMount Hope, where he lived, and the Fowling Pond, a mile or sobeyond the forge, where he came to shoot ducks, geese, and brantonce or twice every year. We may remark in passing that evenpresidents of the United States are not averse to seeking relaxationfrom official cares in this way. 196 OUR COLOXIAL HOMES On these occasions the master of the forge had always treatedPhilip like a man and a brother, as it was certainly quite for hisinterest to do ; nor did the so-called barbarian forget to repay kind-ness with kindness when the outstandings debt fell due. So far certainly the old story is plausible enough. But throuo-hthe persistent and intelligent research of Mr. Elisha C. Leonard,himself one of the old stock, we now know the exact truth aboutthat Gothic House — that, in short, it did no
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