Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds

ple entering the city from the sea was a new experience, and as the vessel neared the harbour they gazed about t

revolving light, ninety-two feet above the level of the sea. And yonder is Spit or Bug Light; it is only thirty-five feet high, a

and on which it stands. The tower is only twenty-two

nary times Castle William) just at the entrance of the main channel; and opposite it

ng tone. "What an exciting time that must have been! I think it was grand in the people to give

anded property do to this day,"

ican women can influence the voters to whom they

therless single women? The men may vote as heavy taxes upon their property as they please, while they can't lift a fing

g into a woman's rights wom

ne of these days, though; and I'll not promise not to turn into an advocate of women's right to have some say about the tax

that American women should have all their rights; but I should

uch or anything about our institutions, have a vote. I must say it strikes me as exceedingly insulting to educated, intelligent ladies, who are native Americans, to

for instance?

ation I'm concerned about, not the col

the country, should have a vote, and not even they unless able to read and write, capable of understanding our form of government, and possessed of som

e the tea ships when the folks went on

s Wharf," he replied; "I can

about? A story?" queried little El

e Captain said, stroking the soft, shining, golden curls as

n't it something 'bout a tea

like to hear it over again now when we're jus

; "also because I want you to be thoroughly

that time,-were then called colonies, and were ruled by England. The English Government claimed

rica should be taxed and how much; so they determined that rather than pay a tax p

n them; and these ships came into their harbour

anchor yonder, near the Castle, as it was then called. It was on Sunday the 'Dartmouth

posted all over the town. I committed i

or manly opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny, stares you in the face; every Friend to his Country, to himself, and to Posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil Ha

bill; its date was

to the tea-party?"

to be the principa

he excitement was so great and brought so many people together th

back in the same vessel it had come in; also they notified the owner and the commander of the vessel that to land and enter the te

tore the tea till they could hear from England; but the people were det

ring them to disperse; but it was received with hisses, and

s Coffin and Bruce, which were hourly expected to arrive

d Elsie, who was listening with a look of interest and intelligence that seem

out to sea again. But the governor had already taken measures to prevent him from doing that, ordering Admiral Montague to fit out two armed vessels and station them at the entrance to t

ch and Captain Hall must have been quite puz

d next, Papa?

South,-the largest meeting that had then ever been

advised the people to weigh and consider before they took measures that would bri

lu, "I thought Mr. Quincy

t he wanted the people t

put, 'Will you abide by your former resolutions wi

d they say?"

hole vast assembly spea

was there to hear

use, a few miles out of Boston, and Mr. Roch had been sent

n up, and reported to them that the governor refused a permit until a clearance s

g!" exclaimed little Elsi

his knee; "some day when my little girl is older and wiser, sh

showed himself disguised like a Mohawk Indian, raised the Indian war-whoop, and was answered in the same fashion by some one outside the building,-for th

motion to adjourn, and the p

e British squadron not more than a mile away; British troops

d Griffin's Wharf, the people hurried thither. Some fifteen or twenty were so disguised, but about sixty boarded the vess

rded first, the hatches were taken up, and her cargo of one hundred and fourteen chests of

boarded and their cargoes of te

" remarked Max with satisfaction. "I'd wish I'd be

way I feel about

ess of our fathers in securing the blessings of liberty for not themselves only, but for us also. We assuredly have more to be thankful for than any other nation, and ought therefore to be better and more earnest Christians, doing all we possibly can to spr

ting to the present, that for a time the past was well-nigh forgotten, except when the Captain pointed

to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," the other you

d Johnny Bull flew

than should have no

hould be held acros

tax the Tea of all hi

burly state, and blus

e a tune called 'Ya

ese are facts,-Ya

tea I'll tax; you-

rom o'er the sea, wi

or bohea I never

out began,-he laid

y Jove!' so he threw

regiment, big words

en near the land playe

keep it up,-Yan

tax your cup; you-Y

y had, in which John

as the march to which

them fly, could not

, 'suits to a T. I'l

is disgrace, was flushe

o sing no more this '

ho, ha, he,-Yan

but not the tea; Y

the origin of thi

slikes as 'dull and

' it is sung, in ch

athe the strain John ma

me the words, the mu

can't sing the air of

irm and true,-Ya

doodle do, Yank