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Who will shield the fearless heart?

Who avert the murderous blade?
From the throng with sudden start,

See, there springs an Indian maid;
Quick she stands before the knight;
"Loose the chain, unbind the ring!
I am the daughter of the king,
And I claim the Indian right."

Dauntlessly aside she flings
Lifted ax and thirsty knife;
Fondly to his heart she clings,
And her bosom guards his life!
In the woods of Powhatan,

Still 'tis told by Indian fires
How a daughter of their sires
Saved a captive Englishman.

THANK YOU, PRETTY COW

JANE TAYLOR

THANK you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread,

Every day and every night,

Warm, and fresh, and sweet and white.

Do not chew the hemlock rank,

Growing on the weedy bank;

But the yellow cowslip eat,

That will make it very sweet.

Where the purple violet grows,

Where the bubbling water flows,
Where the grass is fresh and fine,
Pretty cow, go there and dine.

THE SUNKEN TREASURE

From "Grandfather's Chair"

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

"AND what became of the chair?" inquired Clara.

"The outward aspect of our chair," replied Grandfather, 66 was now somewhat the worse for its long and arduous services. It was considered hardly magnificent

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enough to be allowed to keep its place in the council chamber of Massachusetts. In fact it was banished as an article of useless lumber. But Sir William Phips happened to see it, and being much pleased with its construction, resolved to take the good old chair into his private mansion. Accord

ingly, with his own gubernatorial hands, he repaired one of its arms, which had been slightly damaged."

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Why, Grandfather, here is the very arm!" interrupted Charley, in great wonderment. "And did Sir William Phips put in these screws with his own hands? sure he did it beautifully! But how came a governor to

know how to mend a chair?"

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"I will tell you a story about the early life of Sir William Phips," said Grandfather. "You will then perceive

that he well knew how to use his hands."

So Grandfather related the wonderful and true story of The Sunken Treasure.

Picture to yourselves, my dear children, a handsome, oldfashioned room, with a large open cupboard at one end, in which is displayed a magnificent gold cup, with some other splendid articles of gold and silver plate. In another part of the room, opposite to a tall looking-glass, stands our beloved chair, newly polished, and adorned with a gorgeous cushion of crimson velvet, tufted with gold.

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In the chair sits a man of strong and sturdy frame, whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and blackened by the burning sun of the West Indies. wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his shoulders. His coat has a wide embroidery of golden foliage; and his waistcoat likewise is all flowered over and bedizened with gold. His red, rough hands, which have done many a good day's work with the hammer and adz, are half covered with the delicate ruffles at his wrists. On a table lies his silver-hilted sword; and in a corner of the room stands his gold-headed cane of beautifully polished West India wood.

Somewhat such an aspect as this did Sir William Phips present when he sat in Grandfather's chair, after the king had appointed him governor of Massachusetts. Truly, there was need that the old chair should be varnished and decorated with a crimson cushion in order to make it suitable for such a magnificent looking personage.

But Sir William Phips had not always worn a gold embroidered coat, nor always sat so much at his ease as he did

in Grandfather's chair. He was a poor man's son and was born in the province of Maine, where he used to tend sheep upon the hills, in his boyhood and youth. Until he had grown to be a man, he did not even know how to read and write. Tired of tending sheep, he next apprenticed himself to a ship carpenter, and spent about four years in hewing the crooked limbs of oak trees into knees for vessels.

In 1673, when he was twenty-two years old, he came to Boston, and soon afterwards was married to a widow, who had property enough to set him up in business. It was not long, however, before he lost all the money that he had acquired by marriage and became a poor man again. Still, he was not discouraged. He often told his wife that, sometime or other, he should be very rich, and would build" a fair brick house" in the Green Lane of Boston.

Do not suppose, children, that he had been to a fortune. teller to inquire his destiny. It was his own energy and spirit of enterprise, and his resolution to lead an industrious life, that made him look forward with so much confidence to better days.

Several years passed away, and William Phips had not yet gained the riches which he promised himself. During this time he had begun to follow the sea for a living. In the year 1684 he happened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which was supposed to contain a great deal of gold and silver. Phips went to the place in a small vessel, hoping that he should be able to recover some of the treasure from the wreck. He did not succeed, however, in fishing up gold and silver enough to pay the expenses of his voyage.

But, before he returned, he was told of another Spanish ship, or galleon, which had been cast away near Porto de la Plata. She had now lain as much as fifty years beneath the waves. This old ship had been laden with immense wealth; and, hitherto, nobody had thought of the possibility of recovering any part of it from the deep sea which was rolling and tossing it about. But though it was now

an old story, and the most aged people had almost forgotten that such a vessel had been wrecked, William Phips resolved that the sunken treasure should again be brought to light.

He

He went to London and obtained admittance to King James, who had not yet been driven from his throne. told the king of the vast wealth that was lying at the bottom of the sea. King James listened with attention, and thought this a fine opportunity to fill his treasury with Spanish gold. He appointed William Phips to be captain of a vessel called the Rose Algier, carrying eighteen guns and ninety-five men. So now he was Captain Phips of the English Navy.

Captain Phips sailed from England in the Rose Algier, and cruised for nearly two years in the West Indies, endeavoring to find the wreck of the Spanish ship. But the sea is so wide and deep that it is no easy matter to discover the exact spot where a sunken vessel lies. The prospect of success seemed very small; and most people would have thought that Captain Phips was as far from having money enough to build a "fair brick house" as while he tended sheep.

The seamen of the Rose Algier became discouraged, and gave up all hope of making their fortunes by discovering

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