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Title: ... Under the crown, American history;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Youth companion
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Publisher: Boston, Mass., P. Mason company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ractically all the freeholders in the town, with their wives, resorted every evening for social gossip. The building was shortly afterward converted into the StadtHuys, or State House, and stood where now is Coenties Slip on Pearl Street, and a tablet on a gloomy warehouse marks its site. To these gatherings of the social Dutch settlers came the captains from foreign ports; the governor, who was more boisterous than irascible when off duty; Jacob Steendam, the first real poet of this continent; and dozens of other notables. Governor Stuyvesant was talking loudly and emphatically to a room ful of men and women when Jan burst through the door. He had just said that the next smuggler he caught would be hung by his toes from the arms of a windmill in a gale. Jan tried to speak, but he was so excited that he only irritated the governor, who shouted at him in plain Dutch: Get out of here, you impudent young brat! Dont you see that I am talking? But Diedrich came forward. There is a smuggler aground down by
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THE GOVERNOR GAZED WITH STAKING EYES. 58 STEVENSEN AND VAN HORNE. Allertons, he asserted. They took us aboard from our canoe because they were afraid we would inform you, and then they ran aground. The governor gazed at the boys with staring eyes. His suspicious old soul smelled a joke. But Jans excitement was too real and Diedrichs statement too earnest to leave much doubt. We shall see! We shall see! he shouted.* If you are telling the truth, you wont be sorry, but if you are lying, — and he stamped his ornamented wooden leg, — I'll fix you both! With a party of soldiers and a curious crowd of citizens at his heels, the governor led the way to the river, with Jan and Diedrich by his side. When they reached the waterside, the captain and his men were laboring with all their strength to move their vessel. But she was hard aground, and a falling tide was making her more solid every minute. Captain Nielsens courage never failed him in emergencies, and he immediately assumed the semblance of innocenc

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