Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-07-14
AN OLD NEW YORK STORY
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A few moments before New Amster-
dam was as quiet and peaceful as the
lazy white clouds drifting up from the
sea on that perfect May morning; now
all was hustle and elamor. every stall
wart burgher and -buxom vrow in the
primitive town having an opinion and
claiming the f1oor-or the street. rather.
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Dame Winkhoven said il was the
Quakers. and proceeded to take in her
wash" at a lively rate.
Jacob Groot's boy Flip. whose knowl-
EDGE of warfare was most profound
(aIl of his spare moments having been
spent in the neighborhood of the crum-
bling Fort Amsterdam. gave it as bis
opinion that old lizard Kiss" the dis
mantled stonepiece on the southwest
bastion, aust have been cast in the
same mold as tie guns which were
laundering in tn Narrows, but as he
had not had az opportunity to hear
Hard Hiss" sir re the Indian massacre
of 1913, four years previous. he was
told to hold hi tongue.
Flip didn't cry-he didn't even pout
but turning TO Hogbrook, the cob
bier, who was strengthening the bent
crotch of his musket rest, he said, 81
know you all hate me because I'm al
ways right. and you think boys ought
to be wrong until they grow up to be
men"
But l don't hate you, Flip" whis-
pered Elsie Beekman.
mo, because you're little, " answered
the boy, as the two turned down the
Here STRAIT After a pause he added
81 shouldn't wonder if this is a new
governor. Elsie, to rule over us in place
of De Heer Kieft who, you know, is to
be sent home to the states general. But
let them think it is the Quakers if they
wishl"
Flip, dear" said the girl, laying her
hand on his shoulder, IF this is a new
governor from Holland, perhaps he has
let my cousin PETER come with himF'
''Cousinl didn't know you had a
cousin, Elsie"
Eyes, but il is so long since we left
our old home In Utrecht and l was so
young that 1 can scarcely recall his
face. He used to love me so much,
father says, and would let me play all
day with Velvet"
play with Velvet7 What is thatr'
"Oh. / cannot tell you, Flip, because
you wouldn't understand, for there is
nothing like Velvet in this wild coun-
try. a just remember her beauti-
full big eyes and funny whiskers. How
much l would like TO see Cousin PETER
and Velvet again"
They now stood beneath the Merry
Mount or northwest bastion.
Look, Elsier' cried the boy. There
are four ships. Oh, how beautiful
And there flies the flag of the Neither
landx ] am right. See, they are an
choring: but what is thisf'
Speeding over the ehoppy waves,
straight toward them, came a black
longboat, in which sat a single figure.
Nearer and nearer it drew, and the
children could see that the rover was
pulling for dear life. Elsie and Flip
ran down to the waters edge and waved
their hands Just az the figure in the
boat happened 20 turn to see II the
craft was headed Alright. Then they
heard a loud. long drawn out cry.
bravo for Pieter yandespiegeli"
ooh. Flip" exciaimsd the girl, sit Is
Cousin Pieterl It is Cousin Pieterf~
A few more strokes and the boats
prov was on the beach, and Elsie wa
in the arms Of a youth Of eighteen,
whose large red face was the very home
of good humor.
Flip saw at once that the stranger
was to be a dangerous rival for Elsie's
affections. He glared at Cousin PETER
as though he would have eaten him,
and was rewarded by a 'chuck" under
the chin, which familiarity he resented
by turning his back on the pair.
But why do you look so excited,
Cousin Pieterl And what have you
got in that boxf' asRed Elsie, as the
young fellow, after solemnly winking
half a dozen times, splashed into the
water and drew from the boat a small
green box with a brass handle.
'"That big black ship" Pieter an
swered, lis the Great Gerrit, with De
Heer Petrus S~tuyvesant, director gen
eral Of the New Netherlands, on board.
Oh, he's a hot 'uD-hard as his old sill
yer leg. l hid in the cargo Of cloth on
Christmas day. when she left the Texel
for I found Utrecht dreadfully lonely
without little Elsie-and in consequences
am to receive a hundred lashes with a
ropes end in front Of your Stadt Hugs
wien they catch mel"
Poor cousinf" said the child II
win kiss thaney governor and ask him