From Kingdom to Colony

ore, where lay the rowboat, beached on the sand, with Leet, the faithful old

boy Pashar, looking like an animated inkspot upon the brightness all about. His white eyeballs and teeth showed sharply by contrast with their onyx-like settings, as he sat with his

visitor to every housewife in town. He lived when at home (which was rarely) in a hut-like abode up among the ro

n the name of Lavinia Amelia; and these two, with a yellow

em of information possessed by his acquaintances was that his name was not Johnnie Strings at all, but "

ates had no great taste for Biblical terms as applied to every-day use; for his real name had long sinc

esky King's soldiers 'bout us, there's no sayin' what day or night they won't overrun the hull country, from the Governor's house at Sale

ed out Dorothy, as she and Mary came up. "Ar

wreck of a hat, showing a scant lot of carroty hair, gathered tight

ust come from over Salem way; an' yesterday evenin' ye could scarcely see the ground for the red spots that co

lls and pebbles, pressed closely against her cousin, looking up out of a pair of frightened eyes

nd bent to reassure the little one, putting an arm abou

rom Boston for, Johnnie?"

nning leer. Then he said: "There's no harm to come from 'em yet. But soldiers be a lawless lot, if they get turned loose to look after we folk 'bout

ing the boat into the water, while Pashar stood gaping at the pedler, u

oming down here?" inquired Mary, sp

deposited 'Bitha in the boat, and was now getting in to take her own place in the stern, said to him, "Come

de. "I've that will take me up to Dame Chine, at the Fountain Inn, an' I should be there this very minute,

or Aunt Lettice?" demanded Dorothy, as Mary Broughton stepped over the intervening seats, p

e this week, ye may depend on it," answered Johnnie, as Pashar p

ong as I live," the girl called back, with a wilful toss o

e to himself, as he stooped to take up his pack. Then suddenly, as if remembering something, he t

the distance of water lying between t

uttered, with a meaning smile. "

ary?" Dorothy asked, the two si

he shore they were leaving, where on the higher land the far-away windows of the

all these soldiers coming down here? And Johnnie acts and

have serious trouble,-perhaps

el of old tea!" exclaimed

e in it than that alone, from what I've heard my father say. And there is much about it that we girls cannot rightly understand, or talk about very wisely. Only, I h

ay,-something about a big black cloud full of lightnings and muttering thunder, c

as she talked to us, Dot? She looked so strange

me out of the kitchen when Tyntie gets that way, and so I don't know whether she talks o

r to be," Mary said musingly; "but I never

hey could foretell to a certainty of future happenings. I wish I'd lived in those days, although it could not have been plea