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Title: Days of the colonists
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lamprey, Louise, 1869-1951
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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but of course that was only hisjoke. Finding that Charlotte had never heard of Sir Rogerde Coverley she took down the book and read theLeonora chapter, and then the account of Sir Rogerscall on Moll White and her cat. Then at Pollys re-quest she read Mr. Popes funny poem about the littlegiantess, Glumdalclitch, and showed Charlotte the bookwith the pictures of Mr. Gulliver. At dinner Charlotte learned to her surprise thatthere were thrilling stories about Carolina itself. Now,people in England hardly thought that the colonieswere old enough to have history. Mr. and Mrs. Pinckney, who dined at Wapoo thatday, had always lived in Charles Town, and in 1707,when Mr. Pinckney was a little boy, the city was be-sieged. The gentleman told the story to the children,arranging nuts, raisins, and sweetmeats to show wherethe fortifications were. The King of Spain, he said, always claimed thatthis country was a part of Florida, and as France andSpain were friendly just then, he persuaded the French
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t riowtNCfc choate THEY REGARDED THEIR HOUR WITH THEIR YOUNGMISTRESS AS A TREAT. —Page 203

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