. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . ngle hour, and beforewe were ashore from the John and Sarah a month, wehad stored in our outer room as much of salted fish as SEA FOOD 39 we could have eaten in two years, even though we hadbeen ravenously hungry all the while. From sturgeon to perch, we could have all thefish we cared to catch, and the sorrow of it was thatthe poor, starving wretches I have seen in Bristol mightnot have had some little portion of what we werenot able to eat. We had, while we lived in that cave home, and manyyears afterward, for that matter, oysters such as
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . ngle hour, and beforewe were ashore from the John and Sarah a month, wehad stored in our outer room as much of salted fish as SEA FOOD 39 we could have eaten in two years, even though we hadbeen ravenously hungry all the while. From sturgeon to perch, we could have all thefish we cared to catch, and the sorrow of it was thatthe poor, starving wretches I have seen in Bristol mightnot have had some little portion of what we werenot able to eat. We had, while we lived in that cave home, and manyyears afterward, for that matter, oysters such as younever dreamed of, as to size. I have seen them againand again six full inches in length, when one must cutthem with a knifeinto portions, sincethey were far toolarge to be takeninto the mouthwhole. Then there werecrabs, cockles, andmussels in such greatstore that he whowent out to gatherfor himself broughtback enough for hisneighbors, findingthese shellfish so plentiful that but little labor wasneeded to get as much as a dozen persons could 40 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA Surely I have set down enough to let you know thatwe had food in such store as was like to make us waste-ful, and the wonder of it was that we did not grow intomountains of fat while we waited for the Amity andthe Factor. NEWS OF THE FACTOR I would I had the time in which to tell you all thatJethro and I did during that first winter in America,when it was as if we had come into a land overflowingwith milk and honey, with none to molest or makeafraid; but if I am to tell you how we built the city ofBrotherly Love, I must be careful not to spend timeand words on that which Jethro and I did in the wayof pleasure, because our doings were of no account,whereas the making of the chief town in this countryof Pennsylvania was, as it seems to me, of great im-portance. The Factor, which, as you may remember, was thethird ship of our fleet, and sailed from the port ofBristol, did not get across the ocean until nearl
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