Tarry at home travels . ^? God blessyou! Yes. Storiesof Roger Williams, ofCanonicus and Canon-chet, of Wampum (ask Chevalier de Chastellux. William Wccdcn tO tell you that); stories of King Philip, and ofTower Hill, and of the Narragansett fight; storiesof the capture of the Gaspec; stories of thecapture of Prescott; stories of Rochambeau, ofChastellux, of Lafayette and a hundred braveFrenchmen; stories of a thousand pretty girls. EHODE ISLAND 203 whom they danced and flirted with; stories ofthe slave trade, of the De Wolfs and the Hoppersand the Herreshoffs; stories of clambake — storiesenoug


Tarry at home travels . ^? God blessyou! Yes. Storiesof Roger Williams, ofCanonicus and Canon-chet, of Wampum (ask Chevalier de Chastellux. William Wccdcn tO tell you that); stories of King Philip, and ofTower Hill, and of the Narragansett fight; storiesof the capture of the Gaspec; stories of thecapture of Prescott; stories of Rochambeau, ofChastellux, of Lafayette and a hundred braveFrenchmen; stories of a thousand pretty girls. EHODE ISLAND 203 whom they danced and flirted with; stories ofthe slave trade, of the De Wolfs and the Hoppersand the Herreshoffs; stories of clambake — storiesenough even if the voyage should last from Juneto October. .d by the -time you come to the w^ ^ft i K ^H JM ; Iwv*? L ^^pp ^^^^P^^v ife ir ? ^ B^E^S-^^fe - ? --<! Destruction of the Schooner Gaspee in the Waters ofRhode Island, an old engraving. rough turning of Point Judith you will be asleepin your stateroom and the rough sea will nottrouble you. Point Judith ?—Just a word about Point old John Hull, the same who coined the firstsilver money for Massachusetts and showed to 204 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Cromwell and King Charles and the sachems ofNew England that Massachusetts had the sover-eign rights of coining money — this same JohnHull had a daughter Judith. If you are well upin your Hawthorne, you know that the nightSamuel Sewall (afterwards Chief Justice, thesame who hang


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