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Once mon a fine there was a ,nony

Once upon q time there was man
IA Norwegian--whose lame was
Hcriolf, aud who, with his son Barn,
sailed about in shiIs, and traffickcd
from land to land. He was descend.
ed from Earl Ingolf, who, more than
d hundred years before, had founded
the colony in Iceland; and like the
Vikings in his native Norway. He.
rolf and his son were most at home
upon the stormy sea-. By some
strange accident, they were once and
for the fret tune separated. The ii.
Gus Barn, in search like of north.
ern Telemachus, wandered about in
vain from port to port, and at length
tnrned his restless prov to tar.away
! Greenland. Steering by the stars,
and cropping about the wide waste of
ocean with such experience as men
in those old days could have, Git was
exactly eight hundred and ftty-one
years ago,) the bold Barn at first
sailed with prosperous gales; but a
fierce storm succeeding, drove him
miles and miles away TO the south
and west, and nearly wrecked him
OH a wide. fiat and woody coast,
which the rover knew could not be
Greenland.
4 vast summer-looking cape lay
inviting on his lurboard bow but
the long prayed for southern wind
had risen another Mentor, and Barn,
shouting out temptation, bore away
for Greenland icy mountains. Re.
ward followed close upon his self
denial, and was locked i'll his fathers
arms. Meantime our friend Barn
had seen, and was the first Europeans
to SEQ America; but Hcriolf, and his
son, thrifty traders both, had ever
found the oceans and shores their fa-
theirs had known quite vast enough
;efor them, aud .hrf2 therefore, we'll
Content to ship q carsa FOR I.o,2c,
ward voyage, L1v,, howevue, All
Iceland noble, and SON to lie Red
Eric, resolved to pursue the adyen.
ture. His father: Earl Eric, twenty
years before. had been driven from
the peaceful colony in Iceland be.
cause Of his bloody hand. Collect.
ing lis sons and his liegemen, he
sailed boldly away to the west, eight
hundred miles and more, and entered
at last deep bay which he called
Eric's Fiord, aud named the land
around hiu Grecnlaud.
Finding the new region as good as
Iceland, he sent his son Lief to Nor.
way with messages to Klug Olaf de.
scrlblnS the uuAsnlticence OF Green
land. The hlng who was a ready q
Christian, huNlne received from Lief
the promise oi MS fathers and his
own Conversion, sent them forthwith
assistance cc-incn, provisions, mission.
aries, and nna.ty alshop; s. that
churches and cVuventS were built III
Greenland. Ii Il word, the Green
ianu colony was quite able to take
up the ullllniahvu adventures Of
Barn, and Llcl was the Champion.
Ills aged father himself would have
headed the enterprise but his horse
s;umolcd us he r,de to the ship, and
the NUrtiIlnaii, elS hL hundred years
ago, was warned by the umcn.-
L,ct, however, bcstrudc surer.ino..
eli Stcc,l, aud embarked all unduuut
ed. Ills shlp, nannen by crew OF
tlIlrty-hve fearless rovers, sailed
away through the maiden waves of
ille vest, ami Barn land Of prom.
isc ~ e ~ the siShi. 1t was New.
fiOun,!aAI, tut The Nvrthnen called
II llrglrlnnu, and unoA!ished With its
Hat aspect, tuned southwark to
plcasantcr COASTS, aud landed il. No.
va Scotia, naming 1t Marklaud, the
land of the pains. The favored ship,
speeding with the breeze, coasted
along beautiful aud shady regions,
with corn aud fruit growing wild in
the tielus--a Paradise land to the
Northlnen. Rivers and lakes teen.
ing with fish, and an atmosphere soft
and bal,ny i'll the "Skoredemand," )"
(the harvest moon Of the year. filled
the measure Of temptation, and the
Mortimer built their cabins for the
winter
The ship was moored and all hands
busy on shore. One day q German
sailor named Tyrker, from Rhinland,
wandered off in the charming fields,
and came upon tall clustering vines
bending with rich clusters Of grapes;
he seized an armfull Of the ripest,
and fastened to teach the Mortimer
how, on the hillsides of his native
river, men made the sparkling wine.
"Vinland !" cried Lief, "a deep
skoal for Vinland !" and Vinland
thenceforward was the Northman's g