File:The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912) (14781022141).jpg

Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
her and deep enough for thelargest war-ships. It washes the western shoreof San Juan Island, a little green eminence fifteenmiles long and, in the broadest part, seven mileswide. The northern part is broken up into highhills, while the southern end is covered withlovely pasture-land. Coal and limestone are foundin the hills, and off the shore there is splendid385 386 CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY fishing for cod, halibut, and salmon. But it is on is no record of its age, size, or color, or ofaccount of its fortress-like position on the main whether it had a name; or, in short, of anythingchannel and commanding both waterways to about it, except that it went on Hubbss ground-Canada and Alaska that it is most highly prized, on that part where he was growing a few vege-A man named Hubbs, who was pasturing sheep tables which the pigs kept by his neighbor hadon the southern end of the island of San Juan, already damaged. If any one had dreamed what r..:^.,.^.^.f^T.^...:....0. SCALE OP MILES
Text Appearing After Image:
^^^^^5 MAP SHOWING THE DISPUTED BOUNDARIES IN 1859. had for a neighbor, on the north end, a man namedGrififiths. This Griffiths was employed to raisepigs for the Hudsons Bay Company, that old andfamous institution which has existed for twohundred and fifty years, and has been maintainedby brave and hardy men solely for the purpose oftrading with the Indians; giving them money,blankets, food, guns and ammunition, in returnfor the skins of wild animals. The pigs belong-ing to this company overran the island and causedMr. Hubbs a great deal of trouble; so one day, ina moment of an^ger, he warned his neighborGriffiths that if another pig came upon his landhe would kill it. The very next day a pig didtrespass there. It is altogether a pity that there an important pig this was, all the facts wouldperhaps have been written down. Mr. Hubbs kept his word and killed the pig. Griffiths was then as angry as Hubbs had been,and immediately sailed over to Victoria,—thebusy little city on Vancouver

Note About Images