too of most alarming an universal whisper ran through the assembly the old ladies all felt shocked in the extreme the young ladies blushed and felt excessively for the poor thing and even the governor himself was observed to be a little troubled in mind to complete the astonishment of the good folks she undertook in the course of a to describe some astonishing figures in which she had learned from a dancing master at � whether she was too animated in flourishing her feet or whether some vagabond took the liberty of his services certain it is that in the course peter s modesty shocked of a grand which would not have disgraced a modern ball room she made a most unexpected display � the whole assembly was thrown into great admiration several grave country members were not a little moved and the good peter himself who was a man of modesty felt himself the of the female dresses which had in fashion ever since the days of had long offended his eye and though averse to with the f the ladies yet he immediately recommended hat every one should be furnished with a to the bottom he likewise ordered that the ladies and indeed the gentlemen should use no ther step in dancing than and turn and trouble and forbade under pain of his displeasure any young lady to what was termed exhibiting the graces these were the only he ever imposed upon the sex and these were considered by them as and resisted with that becoming spirit always manifested by the gentle sex whenever their privileges are invaded � in fact peter plainly perceived that if he attempted to push the matter any further there was danger of their leaving off altogether so like a wise man experienced in the ways of women he held his peace and suffered them ever after to wear their o ts and cut their as high as they pleased reflections how peter much hy the moss the and the giants � and a dark and horrid conspiracy was carried on in the british cabinet the prosperity of the we are now approaching towards the crisis of our work and if i be not mistaken in my fore we shall have a world of business to despatch in the chapters it is with some as it is with certain individuals they have a wonderful facility at getting into and i have always remarked that are most liable to get in who have the least talent at getting out again this is doubtless owing to the excessive of those states for i have likewise noticed that this and quality is always most where most confined which accounts for its so in little states little men and ugly little women especially thus when one that the province of the though of prodigious importance in the eyes of its inhabitants and its historian was really of no very great consequence in the eyes of the rest of the world that it had but little wealth or other spoils to reward the trouble of it and that it had nothing to expect from into war save an exceeding good beating � on pondering these things i say one would utterly despair of finding in its history battles or or any other of those which give importance to a nation and entertainment to the reader but on the we find so is this province that it already drawn upon itself a host of enemies had as many as would gratify the of the most warlike nation and is in sadness a very forlorn distressed and little province � all which was no doubt ordered by providence to give interest and to this pathetic history but i forbear to enter into a detail of the pitiful and that for a long while the victory on the continued to the dignity and disturb the repose of the suffice it in to say that he hostility of the people of the east had so been prevented from out as my readers must remember by he sudden of and the in the council of now again itself in a thousand grievous and bitter upon the borders scarcely a month passed but what the dutch on the were alarmed by the appearance of an army from this would advance resolutely from through the country like a of the deserts the women and children mounted in carts loaded with pots and as though they meant to boil the honest alive and them like so many at the tail of these carts would stalk a crew of long sided with ou their shoulders and on their backs resolutely bent upon ig the country in despite of its these settling themselves would in a short time completely the unfortunate them out of those rich and fertile valleys in which our dutch are so famous for themselves � for it is notorious that wherever these shrewd men of the east get a footing the honest do gradually disappear retiring slowly like the indians before the being totally by the talking disposition of their new neighbours all these audacious on the of their high were accompanied as has before been hinted by a world of and which would doubtless have the peter to immediate had he not at the very same time been perplexed by distressing accounts from who commanded the at south river the restless who had so graciously been suffered to remain about the al s roaring boys ready began to show signs of and but what was worse a claim was laid to the whole territory as the property of lord by a who ruled over the colony of or as it was called because that the inhabitants not having the fear of the lord before their eyes were prone to get and make merry with and apple nay so hostile was this bully that he threatened unless his claim were instantly complied with 