From Kingdom to Colony

haps what some folk say of Moll is true,-that it is an evil g

in supported in one soft palm, while her eyes looked off over the water, motionless almo

that?" Ma

threatening the ships at sea, he would go up on Burial Hill, and

ing the ground about the dead benefit or protect the living,

Only that is what I've heard, ever since I was

d, or anything else. Poor old man, he is very feeble, and I should say 't is a ha

nner, "'T was odd, Mary, for her to say that when you left her doo

ng, turned her head away, while t

head so as to bring her smiling face directly under the down-dropped

You know Hugh Knollys rode down the

was over the laughing

ispleased with me for having gone with you to see Moll." Mary made an effort to look an

he said with decision; "leastway, not for long. He is stern en

poiled child," said Mary, with a

enine is always saying; but all the aunts in the

ing softly to herself, and improv

is blue,

lue, and I l

"Oh, Dot, look, look

ruel teeth showing in the gaping jaws, go bobb

ger," said Pashar, as h

r his shoulder at hi

him company, ef ye don't sit still, an' quit grampussin'

ach lay down below the rocky headland, upon the highest point of which s

enite ledges, whose natural jaggedness had no need to be strengthened by art to render them a safe bulwark against

latter was an odd beacon,-being a discarded pulpit from one of the Boston churches, whence, after hearing much of the noise a

the pasture-lands, breaking here and there into rough hills, showing fields of gold

and directly opposite the front windows of Spray House, were two goodly-sized

d Dorothy, as Leet ran the boat's nose into the

ny days before father goes up to Boston, and he

ary, after dropping a light kiss upon her check, arose to leave the b

he said, and was like to have a quick and a rou

kissed her hand to her friend, as Leet pulled out again into the water and rowed toward the upper end of the bay, while Mary

o increase the already generous pile stored in the building near by,

anding-a tall, finely built man, nearly fifty-gazing through an open window. His sturdy legs were well apart, as with han

e stood close beside him and slipped a hand within his arm. Then he started, and the scowl left his

had a pleasant water-trip?" He looked at her lovingly, while he

t come from over Salem way. He says there are quantities of soldiers ther

said grimly, "And so they are, so they are, if not indeed something worse." And the

position should they actually come down here? Oh, it would be dreadful to have any fighting

idges until you come to them." Then he added rather impatiently, "What

we made him talk. But he did not seem

pity the man who is fool enough to tell women-and girls,

my child, and I have to ask if you can be ready soon after supper to drive with me to the house of neighbor Devereux, and to stop there a few da