Identifier: marylandstorieso00pass (find matches)
Title: Maryland; stories of her people and of her history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Passano, Leonard M. (Leonard Magruder), 1866-1943
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Publisher: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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make believe that on board of the Ark were alittle boy and his sister. We do not really know thatthere were any children on board, but we will pretend thatthere were these two. And we will make believe thatthe boys name was Richard Cornwaleys and his sistersname Elizabeth. Early in the spring their father had sold his farm andthey had journeyed to London to meet the rest of thecompany bound for America. Their father and mothermade this journey on horseback, but Dick and Bettytraveled in a great heavy cart drawn by four horses. When they came to the steep hills the children wouldget out and walk. When it rained the carter would situnder the hood with them and tell them about the robbersand wolves that sometimes attacked him. Li the cart were packed their clothing and the fewthings they were bringing from their old home. Theywere bringing very little with them. There would bemore than three hundred persons in the two small ships.Most of the room on board would be needed for the food 20
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o s I ^ o ~ § ^ (A -»H 8 MARYLAND and water for the voyage, and for the tools and imple-ments they had to carry. Dick and Betty thought the time for sailing wouldnever come. They did get as far as the Isle of Wight,but delays arose and it was not until the twenty-secondof November that they finally sailed. When they hadbeen out but two days a terrible storm arose from thenorth. The winds increased and the sea grew more wild.Those on board the Ark, the larger vessel, saw inthe distance the little Dove showing two lights at hermasthead as a signal of distress. But they could giveher no aid, they could hardly save themselves, and in amoment she had passed out of sight, and no news of herreached us for six weeks afterwards. The Dove returned to England, to the Scilly Isles.From there she made a fresh start and overtook the Arkat one of the islands of the West Indies. Storm after storm beat upon the larger vessel. Oncethose on board lost control of the rudder and the shipdrifted about limarylandstorieso00pass

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