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 191
justices the next day, and sent to prison for a short time fordisturbing the peace. But this only egged them on. The womenbrought their spinning-wheels ; and every Sunday they bore theirtestimony in the same disagreeable way, and were ejected. They 192 visited every church in the neighborhood ; but… … THE WAY JOHN LEWIS OUGHT TO HAVE SPENT THE SABBATH. The minister would stop short; nor could he be persuaded togo on, until the obnoxious covering was removed. He was sotouchy on this subject, that he would not leave his house to go JACK SIGHS FOR THE PAST. 193 to church, if one were in the path.…
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