wrought by the rod of the prophet � we must ourselves to the compass and the rule and set forth our description as and exactly as if we were making out an fi r a in obedience to this necessity we offer the detailed description hope of economy of a pi grim mansion not on any authority but quoted from an record of the times in the principal houses was a great hall with pictures a great lantern velvet cushions in the window seat to look into the garden on either side a great parlour a little parlour or study furnished with great looking glasses turkey carpets window curtains and picture and a map a brass clock red leather back chairs a great pair of brass the chambers well furnished with feather beds warming and every other elegance and comfort the well filled with substantial fare and wine silver and wine cups not uncommon if any are incredulous as to the of the above extract we assure them that its truth is confirmed by t e of the pilgrim still standing in boston and occupied by their descendants these were not nor ruined mr himself had an estate in worth seven hundred pounds per some of his associates came from halls and many of them brought wealth as well as virtue to the colony the of the climate and the incident to their condition often reduced the in their earliest period to the wants of extreme poverty but their sufferings had the dignity and merit of being voluntary and are now as the hope lie garments of the saints are to the sacred in the eyes of their posterity our humble history has little to do with the public life of governor which is so well known to have been illustrated by the rare virtue of disinterested patriotism and by such even and paternal goodness that a contemporary witty could not find it in his heart to give him a name than sir john his figure if we may trust to the fidelity of his painter was tall and spare his eye dark blue and mild in its expression he had the brow which is said to be of a religious disposition his hair and his beard which he long were black on the whole we must confess the external man presents the solemn and forbidding aspect of the times in which he flourished though we know him to have been a model of private virtue gracious and gentle in his manners and exact in the of all gentlemanly courtesy his was admirably qualified for the station occupied she recognised and continually taught to matron and maiden the duty of obedience from the wife to the husband her ap pointed lord and master a duty that it was left to modern to dispute and which our pious fathers or even mothers were so far from that the only divine right to govern which they acknowledged was that in the husband over the wife madam s matrimonial virtue never into the of fear or the hope of if and approved by principle it vas prompted by feeling and if we may be allowed a coarse comparison like a horse easy on the bit she was guided by the slight est intimation from him who held the rein indeed to pursue our illustration still farther it sometimes appeared as if the were dropped and the inferior animal were left to the guidance of her own sagacity without ever the limits of feminine propriety madam enjoyed the dignity of her official station and felt that if the governor were the greater she was the lesser light there was a slight tinge of official importance in her manner of her and her counsel but she seemed rather to intend to the value of the gift than the merit of the possessed the of a numerous of but as they were in no way associated with the personages of our story we have not thought fit to it with any details concerning them we return firom our long to the party we left in governor s parlour the tables were arranged for dinner tables we say for a side table was spread but in a manner so inferior to the principal board which was with silver and rich china as to indicate that it was destined for inferior guests this indication was soon for on a servant sent to announce dinner to hope who was understood to be occupied with some of the natives on state business that gentleman appeared attended by four indians the young and noble chief of the two of his and an hope turned to to remark on the graceful gestures by which they expressed their to the company heavens she exclaimed what you for she saw that he was as pale as death nothing nothing said wishing to avoid observation and turning towards the window be then added in explanation to hope who followed him these are the first indians i have seen since my return and they brought too vividly to mind my dear mother s death governor to his indian guests to take their seats at the side table and the rest of the company including the elder and surrounded the dinner table and serving men and all reverently folded their arms and bowed their heads while the grace or prayer was after all the rest had taken their seats the indians remained standing and although the governor politely signified to the that their delay wronged the smoking they remained motionless the chief drawn aside from the rest his eye cast down his brow lowering and his whole aspect of id displeasure the governor rose and demanded of the interpret er the meaning of their too evident hope my bids me say replied the savage that be expects such treatment from the english more as the english receive in the of be chief he says that when the 