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Identifier: ourcountryinstor00fran (find matches)
Title: Our country in story
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
Subjects: United States -- History America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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oughtful for one so young. How I should like to stay here all day, cried thedelighted lad. But I am on an errand for my motherand must be off. Just then a large ship appeared in the distance. Theboys keen blue eyes kindled with pleasure. Forgettingall about his mother and his errand, he bounded awaytoward the wharf to see the vessel come in and hear thenews the sailors might have to tell about the wondersof far-away countries. The morning grew to noon, theafternoon to evening, and still the boy tarried. Meanwhile his good parents had become much alarmedover their little boys long absence. The whole householdwas greatly excited, fearing that the child was lost. But 20 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY at nightfall the boy returned, and when his mother, almostbeside herself with fright, flew to meet him, he answeredsimply, Ive been on the seashore. But the little ladloved his parents dearly, and a grieved look in his thought-ful eyes told them that he was sorry for having causedthem so much anxiety.
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GENOA, TODAY Who was this boy, so fond of the sea and so interestedin the ships that sailed upon its waters ? He was Chris-topher Columbus, the son of poor but good and piousparents. He was born in the busy seaport town of Genoa,in a high, six-story house, about the year 1446. The father of little Christopher wr.s a simple working-man, a wool-comber by trade. He prepared wool forspinning and weaving, work which is now done by ma-chinery. It took all the father could earn to keep hisfive children, four boys and a girl, in food and clothing. But when the good man saw how fond his littleChristopher was of the sea, he sent him, when only ten A PATHWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 21 years old, to a famous school at Pavia, located aboutfifty miles north of Genoa. While at this school the boyColumbus studied arithmetic, geography, and much aboutthe stars and about life upon the ocean. After studying diligently for a few years at Pavia,Christopher was obliged to return home to assist his fatherin his

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