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THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY

Every Child Can Read

Edited by

REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D.

Illustrated


[Illustration: STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL.]







[Illustration]

The John C. Winston Co.
Philadelphia

Copyright, 1910, By
The John C. Winston Co.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


                                                           PAGE
  A Talk with the Young Reader                                9


  CHAPTER I

  COLUMBUS, THE GREAT SAILOR

  Bold Sailors of the Northern Countries--The
    Northmen--Columbus the Little Boy--Columbus
    and the Egg--He Crosses the Atlantic, Braves
    the Sea and Discovers New Land                           15


  CHAPTER II

  THREE GREAT DISCOVERERS

  John and Sebastian Cabot--Balboa Discovers the
    Pacific--The Fountain of Youth and Ponce de
    Leon--The Naming of America                              27


  CHAPTER III

  THREE EARLY HEROES

  The Story of John Smith and First English
    Settlement--Miles Standish and the Pilgrims--Roger
    Williams, the Hero Preacher                              36


  CHAPTER IV

  HOW THE DUTCH AND QUAKERS CAME TO AMERICA
  Captain Hudson and His Ship, the _Half Moon_--The
    Trip up the Hudson--Adventures with the
    Indians--William Penn and the Quakers--How They
    Settled on the Delaware River                            48


  CHAPTER V

  THE CAVALIER COLONIES OF THE SOUTH

  The Cavaliers and Lords