he could find. I like Captain Standish. He doesn't call me the Billington boy, and he let me see his sword. He used it when he fought the Turks. It has some queer marks on it that he says are Arabic.

Some more men went with Captain Standish. Every one had a corselet and musket and sword. I wanted to go with them dreadfully, but I didn't dare to ask, and they wouldn't have let me if I had. I watched every one that got into the boat, and I kept wishing some one would say, "Here's just room for a boy if he isn't too big." Captain Standish did not say that, but he did tell me something else. He was the last one to get in, and he turned to me and said real low, "John, when we come back, I'll tell you all about it. If you were a few years older, I'd like to take you with me."

Wasn't that just splendid! He did it, too; I mean, he told me about it. He said that after they had walked about a mile they saw some Indians and a dog away off, but they ran away. Dogs always like me, and if I had been there maybe I could have called it and we could have made friends with them. They saw a deer, too, and ever so much sassafras. Master Jones, the Captain of the Mayflower, says I may send you a big bundle of it when the ship goes back. They found nuts and strawberry vines.

In one place there was a great kettle that must have come from some ship. Near it was a heap of

moist sand. The Indians had patted and smoothed it so you could see the very marks of their fingers. They dug into the mound and there was a great basketful of corn. They filled the kettle with it and their pockets, too, and then they started for the ship. They call the place Corn Hill. That was where Mr. Bradford got caught by the leg.

They mean to give back the kettle and pay for the corn when they see some Indians. Maybe the Indians won't mind, but people don't like it when I take their things without asking. Really, they didn't do a thing but walk and look, and I could have done that as well as any of them.

When the shallop was finished Master Jones and thirty or forty other men went away in it to explore. They went to Corn Hill again, and this time they took corn and beans and wheat. I heard one of them say it was God's good providence that they found them; but they never say that when I borrow things without asking. They say so much that it is a real shame I could not have gone. They did not find any Indians, but they went into some of their houses; and there they saw deers' heads and horns and eagles' claws and all sorts of baskets and queer wooden and earthen dishes.

Another time they went out in the shallop to try to find a place to settle, and this time they were gone almost two weeks. Don't I wish I could have been

with them! Captain Standish told me and Francis about it, and the other boys listened. The pilot wanted to go across the big bay to a place that he saw when he was here once before, but the others thought it was too far. He called it Thievish Harbor because one of the Indians stole a harpoon from them while they were there. I asked the Captain if the sailor knew that the Indian did not mean to give it back or pay for it. He looked funny, as if he wanted to laugh and wouldn't, but all he said was, "Maybe."

They had a splendid time on this journey. They saw Indians sometimes, but they ran away. They saw a grampus lying dead on the shore. That is a great fish eighteen or twenty feet long. Every night they built a kind of barricade, as they called it, to keep the wind off. They drove stakes into the ground on three sides, and then they twisted in pine boughs. One night they heard an awful yell, and the sentinel called, "Arm! Arm!" They fired two muskets, and then it was still again, and so they went to sleep.

The next day some Indians shot at them and they shot back. They call this the Place of the First Encounter. They picked up a bundle of the arrows, and Master Jones is going to carry them to England. Some have heads of brass, some of deer's horns, and some of eagles' claws. Once they were almost shipwrecked. I never was shipwrecked, and maybe I never shall have a chance to be.

It snowed and it rained. The wind blew furiously and there were monstrous waves. The rudder broke, and the mast broke, and the sail fell overboard. It was dark as pitch, but they rowed away from where they heard the breakers and got in the shelter of some land and went ashore. In the night everything froze, but in the morning they found they were on a little island. They dried their clothes and they stayed there over Sunday.

That's all I am going to write now, for Francis wants me to go on a hill a little way off with him. He climbed a tree there and he says he saw a great sea not very far away.

FROM JOHNNIE.

-EVA MARCH TAPPAN.

jūʼniper: an evergreen shrub.—shal'lop: a boat. The word is used to indicate boats of many kinds.-corselet: armor for the body.-sas'safras: a woodland shrub or small tree having a spicy odor and taste.-prov'idence: foresight, care.-harpoon': a spear used to strike and kill large fish.

THE PETERKINS' SUMMER JOURNEY

The Peterkins were planning to take a summer journey. In fact, it was their last summer's journey, for it had been planned then; but there had been so many difficulties that it had been delayed.

The first trouble had been about trunks. The family did not own a trunk suitable for traveling.

Agamemnon had his valise, that he had used when he stayed a week at a time at the academy; and a trunk had been bought for Elizabeth Eliza when she went to the seminary. Solomon John and Mr. Peterkin, each had his patent-leather handbag. But all these were too small for the family. And the little boys wanted to carry their kite.

Mrs. Peterkin suggested her grandmother's trunk. This was a hair trunk, very large and roomy. It would hold everything they would want to carry except what would go in Elizabeth Eliza's trunk, or the bags. Everybody was delighted at this idea. agreed that the next day the things should be brought into Mrs. Peterkin's room for her to see if they could all be packed.

It was

"If we can get along," said Elizabeth Eliza, "without having to ask advice, I shall be glad!"

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Yes," said Mr. Peterkin, "it is time now for people to be coming to ask advice of us."

The next morning Mrs. Peterkin began by taking