Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 146
the town foryears, so that it washis own native place hewas destroying. You can imaginethe excitement, Willcontinued, when it wasknown that the Britishwere really at hand.Wagons were hastilyloading; women andchildren half wild withterror rushed here andthere, and then madetheir way to the… … A REBEL HULLET. he watched it all from the steeple of the meeting-house. Amongthe townspeople were many old acquaintances. He even took 14« A FORTUNATE CHANGE OF WIND. dinner with one of them ; but before he rose from the table thehouse had been fired, and he left it wrapped in flames. What an old…
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