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HE MANAGED TO PULL HIM UP BEHIND

STRANGE STORIES
OF
COLONIAL DAYS

BY

FRANCIS STERNE PALMER, G. T. FERRIS
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
FRANCIS S. DRAKE
ROWAN STEVENS
AND OTHERS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

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CONTENTS

I
THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN

Adventures in Early Indian History
By Francis S. Drake
II
CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP

A Legend of 1645 Retold
By G. T. Ferris
III
TOMMY TEN-CANOES

A Tale of King Philip’s Scouts
By Hezekiah Butterworth
IV
JONATHAN’S ESCAPE

A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’sFalls in 1676
By Robert H. Fuller
V
THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN

In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia
By Sally Nelson Robins
[vi]VI
HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT

The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the lateSeventeenth Century
By Paul Hull
VII
THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS

How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692
By G. T. Lanigan
VIII
HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN

A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695
By Francis Sterne Palmer
IX
CAPTAIN KIDD

An Overrated Pirate
By Rowan Stevens...

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