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He was sitting in the calrant tobacco, talking of these things "It is full time, come

ill," said Lysbet "Heard thou what Batavius said last night?"

"Little I listen to Batavius"

"But this was a ord 'The colonists are leaving the old ship,' he

said; 'and the first in the new boat will have the choice of oars'"

"That was like Batavius, but I will take higher counsel than his"

Then he rose, put on his hat, and walked down his garden; and, as he

slowly paced between the beds of budding flowers, he thought of les for freedos that had imbittered his own experience for ten years

There was plenty of life yet in the spirit his fathers had bequeathed to

hi slowed, burned with passionate flaave us this

fair land, and ill keep it free There has been in it no crowns and

sceptres, no bloody Philips, no priestly courts of cruelty; and, in

God's na on the river-bank; and the reen