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Alice Turner Curtis. A Little Maid of Province Town (Children's Book Classic)
A Little Maid of Province Town (Children's Book Classic)
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ANNE NELSON
CHAPTER II. ANNE WINS A FRIEND
CHAPTER III. ANNE’S SECRET
CHAPTER IV. ANNE AND THE WOLF
CHAPTER V. SCARLET STOCKINGS
CHAPTER VI. CAPTURED BY INDIANS
CHAPTER VII. OUT TO SEA
CHAPTER VIII. ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER IX. THE CASTAWAYS
CHAPTER X. SAFE AT HOME
CHAPTER XI. CAPTAIN ENOS’S SECRETS
CHAPTER XII. AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
CHAPTER XIII. ANNE FINDS HER FATHER
CHAPTER XIV. A CANDY PARTY
CHAPTER XV. A SPRING PICNIC
CHAPTER XVI. THE MAY PARTY
CHAPTER XVII. THE SLOOP, “PEGGY”
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Alice Turner Curtis
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“I’ll trade off something for some moccasins for the child before fall,” she had resolved; “some of the Chatham Indians will get down this way when the beach plums begin to ripen, and will be glad of molasses, if I am lucky enough to have it.”
For those were the days when the little coast settlements had but few luxuries, and on Cape Cod the settlers were in fear of the British. Province Town was especially exposed, and at that time there were but thirty houses; and the people had no established communication with the outside world. The sea was their thoroughfare, as a journey over the sandy country from Province Town to Boston was almost impossible. News was a long time in reaching the little settlement of fishermen. But they knew that King George III had resolved to punish Boston for destroying his cargoes of tea, and had made Salem the seat of government in the place of Boston. War-ships from England hovered about the coast, and the children of Province Town were quick to recognize these unwelcome craft.
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