Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement
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Otis James. Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement
WHY THIS STORY WAS WRITTEN
THE LEAKING "SPEEDWELL"
SEARCHING FOR A HOME
AFTER THE STORM
WASH DAY
FINDING THE CORN
ATTACKED BY THE SAVAGES
BUILDING HOUSES
MILES STANDISH
THE SICK PEOPLE
THE NEW HOME
MASTER WHITE AND THE WOLF
THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE
A CHIMNEY WITHOUT BRICKS
BUILDING THE FIRE
MASTER BRADFORD'S CHIMNEY
SCARCITY OF FOOD
A TIMELY GIFT
THE FIRST SAVAGE VISITOR
SQUANTO'S STORY
LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS
THE FRIENDLY INDIANS
GRINDING THE CORN
A VISIT FROM MASSASOIT
MASSASOIT'S PROMISE
MASSASOIT'S VISIT RETURNED
THE BIG HOUSE BURNED
THE "MAYFLOWER" LEAVES PORT
SETTING THE TABLE
WHAT AND HOW WE EAT
TABLE RULES
WHEN THE PILGRIM GOES ABROAD
MAKING A DUGOUT
GOVERNOR CARVER'S DEATH
WILLIAM BRADFORD CHOSEN GOVERNOR
FARMING IN PLYMOUTH
WAYS OF COOKING INDIAN CORN
THE WEDDING
MAKING MAPLE SUGAR
DECORATING THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE
TRAPPING WOLVES AND BAGGING PIGEONS
ELDER BREWSTER
THE VISIT TO MASSASOIT
KEEPING THE SABBATH HOLY
MAKING CLAPBOARDS
COOKING PUMPKINS
A NEW OVEN
MAKING SPOONS AND DISHES
THE FORT AND MEETING-HOUSE
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL
HOW TO PLAY STOOLBALL
ON CHRISTMAS DAY
WHEN THE "FORTUNE" ARRIVED
POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER FAMINE
ON SHORT ALLOWANCE
A THREATENING MESSAGE
PINE KNOTS AND CANDLES
TALLOW FROM BUSHES
WICKS FOR THE CANDLES
DIPPING THE CANDLES
WHEN JAMES RUNS AWAY
EVIL-MINDED INDIANS
LONG HOURS OF PREACHING
JOHN ALDEN'S TUBS
ENGLISH VISITORS
VISITING THE NEIGHBORS
WHY MORE FISH ARE NOT TAKEN
HOW WAMPUM IS MADE
MINISTERING TO MASSASOIT
THE PLOT THWARTED
THE CAPTAIN'S INDIAN
BALLOTS OF CORN
ARRIVAL OF THE "ANN"
THE "LITTLE JAMES" COMES TO PORT
THE NEW MEETING-HOUSE
THE CHURCH SERVICE
THE TITHINGMEN
MASTER WINSLOW BRINGS HOME COWS
A REAL OVEN
BUTTER AND CHEESE
THE SETTLEMENT AT WESSAGUSSETT
THE VILLAGE OF MERRY MOUNT
THE FIRST SCHOOL
TOO MUCH SMOKE
SCHOOL COMFORTS
HOW THE CHILDREN WERE PUNISHED
NEW VILLAGES
MAKING READY FOR A JOURNEY
CLOTHING FOR THE SALEM COMPANY
PREPARING FOOD FOR THE JOURNEY
BEFORE SAILING FOR SALEM
THE JOURNEY
THE ARRIVAL AT SALEM
SIGHT-SEEING IN SALEM
BACK TO PLYMOUTH
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My name is Mary, and I am setting down all these things about our people here in this new world, hoping some day to send to my dear friend, Hannah, who lives in Scrooby, England, what may really come to be a story, even though the writer of it is only sixteen years old, having lived in Plymouth since the day our company landed from the Mayflower in 1620, more than eleven years ago.
If Hannah ever really sees this as I have written it, she will, I know, be amused; for it is set down on pieces of birch bark and some leaves cut from the book of accounts which Edward Winslow brought with him from the old home.
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Of course I put from my mind all hope of having paper to write on; but these sheets of bark take very well the ink made from elderberries which mother and I brewed the second winter after our new home was built. The pen is a quill taken from the wing of a wild goose shot by Captain Standish.
So deeply was the land covered that we, who watched the men when they went ashore for the first time to seek out some place whereon to make a village, thought that they had fallen into a hole while stepping off the rocks, because we lost sight of them so soon. Instead of its being an accident, however, we could see that they were floundering in the snow, Master Bradford, whose legs are the shortest, being nearly lost to view.
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