. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. CAME TO NEW PLYMOUTH. Do you ask why these people are gathered onthis shore, some crying, others looking sadly andsteadily over the ocean ? Can you see away off onthe horizon the sails of a ship ? Find the rude loghouse up on the hill behind the people. Look attheir faces and their clothes, then read their story ;for they are the Pilgrims at Plymouth, watchingtheir ship, the Mayflower^ start for England, whichwas once their home. It is the spring of 1621. These people have al-ready begun the first permanent settlement on themainland o
. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. CAME TO NEW PLYMOUTH. Do you ask why these people are gathered onthis shore, some crying, others looking sadly andsteadily over the ocean ? Can you see away off onthe horizon the sails of a ship ? Find the rude loghouse up on the hill behind the people. Look attheir faces and their clothes, then read their story ;for they are the Pilgrims at Plymouth, watchingtheir ship, the Mayflower^ start for England, whichwas once their home. It is the spring of 1621. These people have al-ready begun the first permanent settlement on themainland of New England. Notice the boy stand-ing beside the old, gray-haired man, and the littlegirls among the women who are kneeling on theground. Then, do you see the woman hiding herface on her husbands shoulder to conceal the tearsshe could not keep back ? Perhaps she was tryingto shut out the last glimpse of the disappearingship which the others seem so eager to hearts and thoughts. seem to go back toEngland, their old home. The little EARLIEST DAYS IN AMERICA. 169 however, have no remembrance of Old England,for they were not born there, nor here in NewEngland. The only home they knew was in Hol-land until the Mayflower brought them to this newcoast a few months ago. When the ship was out of sight, the Pilgrimswent back to their homes, which were small log-cabins. Then, many of the children, no doubt,asked their fathers and mothers to tell them oncemore the story of their lives in Old England, andwhy they had come to this new country to stay,while the Mayflower went back, THE OLD HOME AT SCROOBY. This is the story that the Pilgrim fathers musthave told their children of their life in England: It was a long time ago when we lived in thepretty country village of Scrooby, Nottingham-shire. Some of us were grown men and womenbefore the opening of this seventeenth century,and the coming of Jamie, the Scotsman, to thethrone so long held by his mothers enemy. Queen
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