Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . voyage to Albany and back ?What did the sailors on the river and the people on shore think of her ? STEPHEN aiEAED AND HIS COLLEGE FOR POOH BOYS. E are ready, Uncle Frank, if you are, said James as theyoung people gathered about the table in the sitting-room. The weather was threatening and Uncle Frankand his young friends remained indoors. What will you tell us about to-day ? asked was thinking of Stephen Girard, said UncleFrank. I know, said Elsie; he was that rich Phi
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . voyage to Albany and back ?What did the sailors on the river and the people on shore think of her ? STEPHEN aiEAED AND HIS COLLEGE FOR POOH BOYS. E are ready, Uncle Frank, if you are, said James as theyoung people gathered about the table in the sitting-room. The weather was threatening and Uncle Frankand his young friends remained indoors. What will you tell us about to-day ? asked was thinking of Stephen Girard, said UncleFrank. I know, said Elsie; he was that rich Philadelphiamerchant that was such a droll , very singular, but possessed of many good traits, very shrewdand odd, yet a man who became very rich, said Uncle Frank. One May morning, in the year 1776, the mouth of the Delaware Baywas shrouded in a dense fog, which cleared away toward noon, andrevealed several vessels just off the capes. From one of these, a sloop,floated the flag of France and a signal of distress. An American ship ranalongside the stranger, in answer to her signal, and found that the French. 36 STEPHEN GIRARD. captain liad lost his reckoning in a fog, and was in total ignorance of hiswhereabouts. His vessel, he said, was bound from New Orleans to a Canadian port,and he was anxious to proceed on his voyage. The American skipperinformed him of his locality, and also of the fact that war had broken outbetween the colonies and Great Britain, and that the American coast was so well lined with Britishcruisers that he wouldnever reach port but asa prize. What shall I do?cried the Frenchman, ingreat alarm. Enter the bay, andmake a push for Phila-delphia, was the reply. It is youronly Frenchman pro-tested that he did notknow the way, and hadno pilot. The Americancaptain, pitying his dis-tress, found him a pilot,and even loaned him fivedollars, which the pilotdemanded in sloop got underweigh again, and passedinto the Delaware, be-yond the defen
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