Category: Pilgrim’s Stories
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 31 and 32
SQUANTO audio WHEN Massasoit and his people returned to their camp in the forest, Squanto did not go with them. “Many, many moons ago wigwams of Squanto’s people stand here, and here,” he said, pointing to the shore and the brookside. “Many canoes on shore. Many camp fires on hillside.” “Did your tribe move to…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 29 and 30
SAMOSET audio AT last spring came bringing health and hope to the Pilgrims. Again the axes rang out in the forest, and the half-built cottages were soon finished. The snow melted from the sunny hillsides, and the ice in the streams broke away and floated into the sea. One morning the men of Plymouth met…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 27 and 28
PLYMOUTH BAY audio A STORM of wind and snow came up as the Pilgrims sailed along near the shore. The sea was very rough, and the boat seemed in danger of being upset by the waves which tossed it from side to side. The rudder was broken, and the mast was split in three pieces by…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 25 and 26
A NARROW ESCAPE audio WHILE the men were away with the boat, the children could not go to the shore to play. They had to amuse themselves on the ship as well as they could. This was not hard for little Francis Billington to do, but his amusements never seemed to please the older people. If…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 23 and 24
THE FIRST WASHING DAY IN NEW ENGLAND audio IT was Monday morning, and the sun was brighter and the weather more mild than in weeks before. The children gazed eagerly toward the shore and thought what fun it would be to have a long run on that smooth, sandy beach, or to hunt for nuts in…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 21 and 22
WATER BABIES audio ON and on the ship sailed. How wide the water seemed. Some days were full of sunshine: then the little children could play upon the deck. They loved to watch the sunset across the wide ocean. Then the sky was bright with purple and gold. Each wave caught the colors from the clouds…
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Pilgrim Stories Chapters 19 and 20
THE “SPEEDWELL” audio FOUR days of good wind and fair weather brought the “Speedwell” to England. There the Pilgrims found about forty friends who wished to go with them to America. They had hired a little ship called the “Mayflower,” which now lay in the harbor ready to sail. It, too, was loaded with provisions…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 17and 18
PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY audio THAT spring brought very busy days to the Pilgrims in Leiden. Those who were going to America had many things to prepare, and those who stayed behind were glad to help them get ready. They must have plenty of cloth made, for there would be no time to weave more until…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 15 and 16
A PERPLEXING PROBLEM audio WHEN they first came to Holland, everything seemed strange to the English children. The gay-colored houses with their floors of blue tile, their queer little fireplaces, and their steep roofs, were very different from the homes they had left in England. They had never seen wooden shoes such as the Dutch children…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 13 and 14
FROM AMSTERDAM TO LEIDEN audio A FEW miles away from Amsterdam is the beautiful city of Leiden, with its many water-streets, fine schools, and great woolen and linen mills. For many reasons this city seemed to the Pilgrims a better place than Amsterdam to make their homes. So one spring morning found a little fleet…