. St. Nicholas [serial]. dge, Lillian G. Leete (age 13), 64 Alexan-drine Ave., W., Detroit, Mich. MY FAVORITE EPISODE IN HISTORY. BY LESTER M. BEATTIE (AGE 15). {Gold Badge.) On a day late in November, 1620, a sailing-vesselbearing the name Mayflower was approaching landjust off Cape Cod, on the coast of New England. Theday was a cold, bleak, stormy one, the wind driving thewaves high up on the shore. That part of the countrywas then destitute of civilization, and the one hundredmen, women, and children on board the Mayflowerwere the first white people to settle there separa
. St. Nicholas [serial]. dge, Lillian G. Leete (age 13), 64 Alexan-drine Ave., W., Detroit, Mich. MY FAVORITE EPISODE IN HISTORY. BY LESTER M. BEATTIE (AGE 15). {Gold Badge.) On a day late in November, 1620, a sailing-vesselbearing the name Mayflower was approaching landjust off Cape Cod, on the coast of New England. Theday was a cold, bleak, stormy one, the wind driving thewaves high up on the shore. That part of the countrywas then destitute of civilization, and the one hundredmen, women, and children on board the Mayflowerwere the first white people to settle there separated from the Church of England, towhich the king had tried to compel their allegiance,they came to America, where they might enjoy religiousliberty. They were pilgrims, going far away to maketheir home in a strange land. A few weeks after they had landed, on December 21,some of the men of the company made their way west-ward from the cape, and found a fine harbor on theshore of the mainland; so at this place the Pilgrims. The St. Nicholas League membership is reader of St. Nicholas, whether a subscriber or not,will be sent a League badge and instruction leaflet on application. KENNETH HOWIE, AGE 17. ^CASH PRIZE.) made their settlement, and called it Plymouth, in memoryof the good old English town from which they had the first winter nearly half the colonistsdied; but when the Mayflower returned to England inthe spring of 1621, not one Pilgrim went back. Butthey all gathered at the shore when the ship departed,and, as Longfellow says : Long in silence they watched the receding sail of thevessel, Much endeared to them all as something living andhuman; Then, as if filled with the Spirit, and wrapt in avision prophetic, Baring his hoary head, the excellent elder of Plym-outh Said, Let us pray! and they prayed, and thankedthe Lord and took courage. 178 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [Dec. It is this courage that isthe most wonderful andcommendable of all thegood qualiti
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