Tarry at home travels . time you did. At allevents, you will like to go down to the Saundershouse, which stands as a sort of memorial tothat massacre, although the house which nowstands was buil afterwards. This is the familyof the Glon. Perhaps you do not know thatSaunders and Glen are the same word. Thisfamily of the Glen, I say, were always goodto the Indians. They always had somethingto eat for the Indian tramp, and they neverfooled him by giving him water too hot towash his hands with. They w^re nice to happened then, when the massacre tookplace, was that the Glen family or the S
Tarry at home travels . time you did. At allevents, you will like to go down to the Saundershouse, which stands as a sort of memorial tothat massacre, although the house which nowstands was buil afterwards. This is the familyof the Glon. Perhaps you do not know thatSaunders and Glen are the same word. Thisfamily of the Glen, I say, were always goodto the Indians. They always had somethingto eat for the Indian tramp, and they neverfooled him by giving him water too hot towash his hands with. They w^re nice to happened then, when the massacre tookplace, was that the Glen family or the Saundersfamily — have it as you like, though nobodycalled them Saunders then — were spared, andtheir house, too, was not destroyed. Now, if any student of the higher criticism 320 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS wants to know why Saunders are sometimesGlens and Glens are sometimes Saunders, 4ethim read/ as Mr. Browning says. Some of thesepeople went down to Louisiana, and one of them,being named Alexander Saunders, used to be. Glkns Falls. From a photograi^h, copyrighted, 18!X), by S. R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, called Sandy artd Sanderson there, and was thencalled Saunders of the Glen. When his childrenand his childrens children grew up and cameback to Schenectady, some of them thoughtthey were Saunders and some of them thoughtthey were Glens, and they chose their namesaccordingly. NEW YORK 321 It was exactly as Lafayette had six nameshe could call upon, and if he did not want to beLafayette he could be Motier. But you can findthe Saunders House if you want the SaundersHouse. If you want memorials of the Glen, 3oucan go over to Glens Falls. There are most charming bits of family history,Cavalier and Puritan, which the Saunders-Glenpeople of to-day have preserved. Central isthe interesting story of the way in which theSaunders house was protected when the rest ofSchenectady was swept by the barbarians. As you go west as the Readers went, or oneither of the railways, you can see the
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