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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,.,^)^J^i^j/yy^^ -sr^AArrjtcr/ff/K ^ 34 J. SMITH, ESQ. To make matters worse, the Fevernager.a terrible disease of the period, got amongthem, and by fall only a handful of the colon-ists remained, and these were a very shakylot indeed, with not clothing enough amongthem to wad a shot-gun. Among this seedy band was one JohnSmith, who, being out of funds himself,and a public spirited person withal, sawthat unless provisions could be obtainedshortly, the scheme of colonizing Americawould be a failure. He went into the lecture field, holdingforth to large and fashionable audiences,composed of intelligent savages, upon thescience of navigation, illustrating his lecturewith an old mariners compass that indicat-ed all four of the cardinal points at once,and a superannuated bulls-eye watch that
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36 -3^-ff. SMITH MISUNDERSTOOD. would do nothing but tick. These simple-minded children of nature listened withattentive ears, and looked on with wonder-ing e3^es, and came down largely with greencorn, sardines, silk hats, hard boiled eggs,fall overcoats, pickled oysters, red hand-kerchiefs, ice cream, dried herring, kidgloves, pickled tripe, and other Indianluxuries, which proved invaluable to thestarving, threadbare colonists. Thus it isseen that Mr. Smith obtained on ticld^ whathe had no cash to pay for. Although Mr. Smith was regarded as atalented man from a scientific point of view,and was even mentioned in the nativepapers as undoubtedly a god, yet he wassometimes grossly misunderstood by these * The reader may occasionally find this sort of thing inthese pages but he is entreated not to be startled. TEE PLOT COAGULATES. 37 artless aborigines, and on one occasion theyarrested liini on a general charge of hocus-pocus or witchcraft, and carried him beforeChief Justice Powhatan to

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