..Under the crown, American history; . cket in onehand, his musket in the other, had gone to the 128 THE RESCUE. Stream. There he heard cautious footstepsthrough the underbrush. Then an anxious white face peered from thethicket. Shouting, A friend! Nicholas sprangto meet the newcomer, the neighbor whose helphad been promised to Mistress Mowbray whenher corn-field was ready to harvest. This man, Jacob Brown, with his family andthat of a near-by settler, had started for FortCumberland, intending to seek Mistress Mow-bray on the road. Within a half-hour they were all off Mowbray
..Under the crown, American history; . cket in onehand, his musket in the other, had gone to the 128 THE RESCUE. Stream. There he heard cautious footstepsthrough the underbrush. Then an anxious white face peered from thethicket. Shouting, A friend! Nicholas sprangto meet the newcomer, the neighbor whose helphad been promised to Mistress Mowbray whenher corn-field was ready to harvest. This man, Jacob Brown, with his family andthat of a near-by settler, had started for FortCumberland, intending to seek Mistress Mow-bray on the road. Within a half-hour they were all off Mowbray and her babies crowded withthe other women and children into one wagon,before which rode Lawrence and one of thesettlers, while Brown, Nicholas, and a couple ofboys younger than himself brought up the rear. Nicholas and Lawrence and their companionsmade their way without further adventure. AtFort Cumberland the two lads were welcomedby their comrades of Dunbars troops as if risenfrom the dead. Ellen Mackubin. THE COLONIES ALERT. lldi. m:mAL. .„ ,,iiiliii ;ir :,,,:,,.,, / „? ii^5\/„,^i GLANCING AT UOROTHYs UPTURNED LISTENING FACE. TWO HISTORIC LANDMARKS. THE tourist, travelling along the northernshore of Portsmouth harbor in the electriccar that runs to York, passes through one ofthe most ancient parishes in the country. At asharp bend in the road, facing the waters ofthe lower harbor, stands the Kittery Congre-gational Meeting - House, the oldest churchbuilding in Maine. Here worshiped Sir William Pepperrell, thehero of Louisburg, and the only American everknighted by the English crown. Whoeverattends the communion service in this churchreceives the Lords Supper from a service thathas been in use since Pepperrells day. Uponthe big two-handled silver cups are inscribedthese words: The Gift of the Honble Wm. Pepperrell Esqr. To the First Church of Christ in Kittery, 1733- Honble Wm. Pepperrell Esqr. was the father of the baronet. The gift was made in the form of a bequ
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