Identifier: twogirlsofoldnew00sage (find matches)
Title: Two girls of old New Jersey : a school-girl story of '76
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sage, Agnes Carr Connah, Douglas John
Subjects: New Jersey--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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boy, butwhen I see those outlaws robbing farmhouses and orchards, Iblush for my countrymen and fairly ache to shoulder a gun andhelp repel them. Well, perchance your chance will come, but mine neverwill! sighed Jan, as he sharpened a scythe and called Yomboto accompany him to an upper meadow sown with turkie-wheat. Come with me for a row on the river, Marta, said Katrina,one afternoon in September. It is long since I tried my armsat the oars; and, the other consenting, they were soon floatingwith the tide, which was running up stream, and playfullydabbling their hands in the limpid water of the Hackensack.Birds circled overhead ; cattails nodded at them from the shore :turtles basked in the sunshine on rocks and logs ; and, in astretch of marsh-land, they caught sight of a stately heron, stalk-ing about on its long legs, which surveyed them solemnly andthen, spreading its great wings, soared away into the high grassto the westward. How lovely jt is/ remarked the smaller maiden, with a
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MARIAS LOVERS 133 little chuckle of content. If only man was as satisfactory asnature ! Some men are, replied her sister, somewhat enigmatically.And then, quite as irrelevantly, added: I wonder where theVoorleezer is now 1 I wonder 1 But look, look, Marta 1 Who is that cominground the bend? It is an Indian canoe and an Indian is at the prow. Yes ; but who is stretched out at full length in the bottom ?Methought I saw a glitter of red and gold. Bless me, screamed Marta, the next moment, I verilybelieve it is John Berry I And, with a curious expression, shewatched the light birch-bark skiff as it seemed to fairly springover the water beneath the propelling paddle, wielded by theredskin. As it neared them, the recumbent form raised itself and gailyshouted : Ho, ho, jufvrouws ! Well met 1 But what is it you are doing here on the river ? asked Marta. Business, sweetheart, business ! But now I mean to have abit of pleasure first, for I want a word with you. Row in atyonder cove and we will

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