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Title: Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hanson, John Wesley, Jr. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rate people put out thefires and kept the savages at bay. On the morning of the third day the In-di-ans piled a cart with hay and set it on fire, then pushed it up against thebuilding. The brave people inside prepared to die but deliverance was at hand.Just as they had given up all hope there came a terrible storm and the rainpoured down in torrents extinguishing the blazing cart. In the afternoon re-inforcements arrived from Bos-ton and the people were saved. In the meantime the war continued with increasing severity and hun-dreds of people were killed. Then the Eng-lish resolved to organize trainedband soldiers, and instead of waiting to be ambushed and shot down by waitingsavages to use the In-di-ans method of warfare and adopt all his cunning andstealthy methods of attack. Phil-ip was chased from point to point and twicehe barely escaped capture. Then an In-di-an betrayed his hiding place and aband of Eng-lish-men surprised the great chief in the middle of the night andkilled him.
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ox THE WAR-PATH. CHAPTER X.THE SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA. While these terrible In-di-an massacres were taking place, a man inEng-land was planning to found a colony in the New World. He was the sonof a famous admiral, and his name was Wil-li-am Penn. He is said to havebeen a good-natured, happy boy when at school, fond of athletic sports, but atthe same time a diligent student. When at Ox-ford, he heard a Qua-kerpreacher deliver a sermon and at once became a convert to the faith. Soonafter this, the students were ordered to wear a surplice, and Penn refused.For this he was expelled from school and his father banished him from home.He relented, however, and sent him to Par-is, hoping that the boy would forgethis nonsense as he called it. But when Penn returned to Lon-don, he attendedthe meetings of the Friends, and ever afterward was a consistent member. Hewas confined for several months in the Tower of Lon-don, for writing a bookon the Qua-ker religion. Soon after this his father die

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