. Bill Nye's history of the United States. goand look at it on Sundays, but he never had theuse of it. With the advent of freedom of political opinion,the individual use of the conscience has become ^0 HISTORy OF THE UNITED STATES. popularized, and the time is coming when it willgrow to a great size under our wise institutionsand fostering skies. Instead of turning over ourconsciences to the safety deposit company of agreat political party or religious organization andtaking the key in our pocket, let us have individ-ual charge of this useful little instrument and beable finally to answer for
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. goand look at it on Sundays, but he never had theuse of it. With the advent of freedom of political opinion,the individual use of the conscience has become ^0 HISTORy OF THE UNITED STATES. popularized, and the time is coming when it willgrow to a great size under our wise institutionsand fostering skies. Instead of turning over ourconsciences to the safety deposit company of agreat political party or religious organization andtaking the key in our pocket, let us have individ-ual charge of this useful little instrument and beable finally to answer for its growth or decay. The author wishes to extend his thanks for the use of books of refer-ence used in the collection of the foregoing facts; among them, Howto Pay Expenses though Single, by a Social Leper, How to KeepWell, by Methuselah, Humor of Early Days, by Job, Dangers ofthe Deep, by Noah, General Peacefulness and Repose of the DeadIndian, by General Nelson A. Miles, Gullivers Travels, and Lifeand Public Services of the James CHAPTER VII. THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK. THE author will now refer to the discovery ofthe Hudson River and the town of New Yorkvia Fort Lee and the 125th Street Ferry. New York was afterwards sold for twenty-fourdollars,—the whole island. When I think of thisI go into my family gallery, which I also use as aswear room, and tell those ancestors of mine whatI think of them. Where were they when NewYork was sold for twenty-four dollars ? Werethey having their portraits painted by Landseer,or their deposition taken by Jeflfreys, or havingtheir Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes made i) Do not encourage them to believe that they willescape me in future years. Some of them diedunregenerate, and are now, I am told, in a coun-try where they may possibly be damned ; and Iwill attend to the others personally. Twenty-four dollars for New York ! Why, myCroton-water tax on one house and lot with fiftyfeet four and one-fourth inches front is fifty-ninedollars
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