Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, vol 4

Myths And Legends of Our Own
Land, vol 4: Puritans

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MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND
By Charles M. Skinner
Vol. 4.
TALES OF PURITAN LAND

CONTENTS:
Evangeline The Snoring of Swunksus The Lewiston Hermit The Dead
Ship of Harpswell The Schoolmaster had not reached Orrington Jack
Welch's Death Light Mogg Megone The Lady Ursula Father Moody's
Black Veil The Home of Thunder The Partridge Witch The Marriage of
Mount Katahdin The Moose of Mount Kineo The Owl Tree A Chestnut
Log The Watcher on White Island Chocorua Passaconaway's Ride to
Heaven The Ball Game by the Saco The White Mountains The Vision
on Mount Adams The Great Carbuncle Skinner's Cave Yet they call it
Lover's Leap Salem and other Witchcraft The Gloucester Leaguers
Satan and his Burial-Place Peter Rugg, the Missing Man The Loss of
Weetamoo The Fatal Forget-me-not The Old Mill at Somerville
Edward Randolph's Portrait Lady Eleanore's Mantle Howe's
Masquerade Old Esther Dudley The Loss of Jacob Hurd The Hobomak
Berkshire Tories The Revenge of Josiah Breeze The May-Pole of
Merrymount The Devil and Tom Walker The Gray Champion The
Forest Smithy Wahconah Falls Knocking at the Tomb The White Deer
of Onota Wizard's Glen Balanced Rock Shonkeek-Moonkeek The
Salem Alchemist Eliza Wharton Sale of the Southwicks The Courtship
of Myles Standish Mother Crewe Aunt Rachel's Curse Nix's Mate The

Wild Man of Cape Cod Newbury's Old Elm Samuel Sewall's Prophecy
The Shrieking Woman Agnes Surriage Skipper Ireson's Ride
Heartbreak Hill Harry Main: The Treasure and the Cats The
Wessaguscus Hanging The Unknown Champion Goody Cole General
Moulton and the Devil The Skeleton in Armor Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket Love and Treason The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown
The Crow and Cat of Hopkins Hill The Old Stone Mill Origin of a
Name Micah Rood Apples A Dinner and its Consequences The New
Haven Storm Ship The Windham Frogs The Lamb of Sacrifice Moodus
Noises Haddam Enchantments Block Island and the Palatine The
Buccaneer Robert Lockwood's Fate Love and Rum

TALES OF PURITAN LAND
EVANGALINE
The seizure by England of the country that soon afterward was
rechristened Nova Scotia was one of the cruellest events in history. The
land was occupied by a good and happy people who had much faith and
few laws, plenty to eat and drink, no tax collectors nor magistrates, in
brief, a people who were entitled to call themselves Acadians, for they
made their land an Arcady. Upon them swooped the British ships, took
them unarmed and unoffending, crowded them aboard their
transports,-- often separating husband and wife, parents and
children,--scattered them far and wide, beyond hope of return, and set
up the cross of St. George on the ruins of prosperity and peace. On the
shore of the Basin of Minas can still be traced the foundations of many
homes that were perforce deserted at that time, and among them are the
ruins of Grand Pre.
Here lived Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse, who were
betrothed with the usual rejoicings just before the coming of the
English. They had expected, when their people were arrested, to be sent
away together; but most of the men were kept under guard, and Gabriel
was at sea, bound neither he nor she knew whither, when Evangeline
found herself in her father's house alone, for grief and excitement had
been more than her aged parent could bear, and he