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Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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son of this lawless fumigation. The sturdy rioters replied by
lolling back in their seats and puffing away with redoubled
fury; raising such a murky cloud that the governor was faint
o take refuge in the interior of his castle.
" A long negotiation ensued through the medium of
Antony the Trumpeter, The governor was at first wrathful
and unyielding, but was gradually smoked into terms. He
concluded by permitting the smoking of tobacco, but he
abolished the fair long pipes used in the days of Wouter Van
Twiller, denoting ease, tranquillity, and sobriety of deport-
ment ; these he condemned as incompatible with the dispatch
of business, in place whereof he substituted little captious
short pipes, two inches in length, which, he observed, could
be stuck in one corner of the mouth, or twisted in the hat-
band; and would never be in the way. Thus ended this
alarming insurrection, which was long known by the name of
the ' Pipe Plot,' and which, it has been somewhat quaintly
observed, did end, like most plots and seditions, in mere
smoke."
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WOUTER VAN TWILLER

cause it was a miraculous event in the history of the
renowned Wouter — being the only time he was ever
known to come to a decision in the whole course of his
life.

HOW NEW AMSTERDAM BECAME NEW YORK

[ 1664 ]

BY WASHINGTON IRVING
[ England had no intention of leaving New Amsterdam in
the hands of her commercial rivals, the Dutch; and although
the two nations were at peace, Charles II sent, in 1664, a
fleet under command of Richard Nichols, and demanded the
surrender of the colony.
The Editor ]

The first movement of the governor [ Peter Stuyvesant ],
on reaching his dwelling, was to mount the roof, whence
he contemplated with rueful aspect the hostile squadron.
This had already come to anchor in the bay, and con-
sisted of two stout frigates, having on board, as John
Joseselyn, Gent., informs us, three hundred valiantred
-coats. Having taken this survey, he sat himself
down and wrote an epistle to the commander, demand-
ing the reason of his anchoring in the harbor without
obtaining previous permission so to do.

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