Identifier: worldsstoryhisto12tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the Pilgrims felt disheartened. The rough houseswhich they hastily raised could not protect them from theblasts of a New England winter; they had not proper foodor, indeed, any of the comforts of life. Sickness came uponthem, and at one time there were only seven well persons inthe little colony. Before the end of March, nearly half of thecolonists had died. These were buried near the first landing-place ; and lest the Indians should count their graves and sodiscover how few were yet living, grain was sown abovethem. Longfellow makes Miles Standish say of his wifeRose, who died during that terrible winter: — Yonder there, on the hill by the sea, lies buried Rose Standish; Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed for me by the wayside! She was the first to die of all who came in the Mayflower! Green above her is growing the field of wheat we have sown there, Better to hide from the Indian scouts the graves of our people, Lest they should count them and see how many already have perished!
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ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS (1634) BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE At noon of an autumnal day, more than two centuriesago, the EngHsh colors were displayed by the standard-bearer of the Salem trainband, which had mustered formartial exercise under the orders of John Endicott. Itwas a period when the religious exiles were accustomedoften to buckle on their armor, and practice the handlingof their weapons of war. Since the first settlement ofNew England, its prospects had never been so dismal.The dissensions between Charles the First and hissubjects were then, and for several years afterwards,confined to the floor of Parliament. The measures ofthe king and ministry were rendered more tyrannicallyviolent by an opposition, which had not yet acquiredsufficient confidence in its own strength to resist royalinjustice with the sword. The bigoted and haughtyprimate. Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, controlledthe religious affairs of the realm, and was consequentlyinvested with powers which m.ight have wr

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