Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1922-10-12
Continued from last week)
CHAPTER XXI
(Continued)
Friend Williamson

saSSy y1yLVSS her new home, for Fienf
GxSA Williamson treated her rs
''0- 1'~f Or" if she were his own child
and his sister was equally kind. They
thought it proper, however, that she
should be dressed like the other
Friends chill idren, and attend their
school, where she soon became g
bright scholar and a general favortie
Often after school hours she rode out
to the farm, and many turned to look
at her, as in her becoming Friends
costume and riding skirt she sat on
her pony furnished by Friend Will,
hanson with new saddle and bride;
and at the farm she had many nice
walk and talk with her dear Dannie
who sometimes walked or rode back
with her and spent part of the ev-
ening at Friend Williamson's. Some,
times, too, he came into the city after
his work was done, and they spent
pleasant hours in the large garden
attached to Friend Williamson's resi-,
dence, among the fruit tres and the
berry bushes and plants and flowers
or they took walks about the streets
generally with Gertrude and Pauline
admiring the large buildings the saw
especially the State-house, now known
as Independence Hall, and Christ
Church with its tower and chime OF
bells; or they strolled down to the
wharves, and looked at the ships or
the river; or they walked up Front
Street and stood for a while on the
bridge over Mulberry Street-fron
which bridge it later obtained the
name Arch Street-and watched the
passers-by, on foot, on horseback, OF
in chaises, the wagons and all the
busy scenes of business or pleasure
along the river front; or they ven
tured as far as Sassafras Street, later
Race Street, because there were horse
races on it sometimes.
Friend Williamson had rowboa'
at his wharf on Dock Street, and Dan
ME soon learned to manage it, ant
sometimes, when he was not needed
on the farm, gave Marie and the
sisters a boat ride on the creek, anc
later ventured out of the creek into
the river, rowing over to Windmill
Island, or with the flood tide to Pet
tvs Island, and back to the mouth OF
the creek with the ebb tide, and oi
this diversion he became very fond.
With Gertrude and Pauline, Dannie
and Marie often walked in the Cover
nor's woods, gathering the wild flow
ers of which Marie was so fond, wilc
honey-suckle, violets, jack-in-the- pull
pits and many others, and later took
home large punches of many-coloreo
autumn leaves, all gathered where now
are solid blocks of houses, and not
vestige of the ancient forest. In II
too, there were numerous families oi
SQUIRRELS, red, brown and grey, large
and small, flying squirrels and groune
squirrels or chipmunks, all making
the woods lively with their gambols
while birds of various kinds made
them vocal with their various songs
and sometimes rabbits and other wilt
creatures would scurry away from the
approaching visitors. Dannie ant
Marie and the sisters began to low
these woods as much as they hat
those in which they had passed theil
captivity, and more, for now the!
were no longer captives, but enjoyed
the freedom for which they had Otter
! longed.
One day, when they had returned
from their walk, and were passing
the open door of the library, Fren'
Williamson called to them to come i,
for a moment. There were tw'
gentlemen with him in the library
the one rather short of stature, but O.
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sturdy build, alert in his movements
and evidently possessed of grea
strength, with a rugged but pleasan
countenance, sometimes lit up by al
indication of genial good comradeship
and again wearing serious and al
most stern expression. He wore tn
uniform of lieutenant Colonel il
the provincial army, to which rank h
had recently been promoted, and ha'
participated in the victorious cam
paign of General Amherst agains
Ticonderoga and Grown Point, as n
had also in the former unsuccessful
one under General Abercrombie.
His companion was tall, athleti
young gentleman, fully six feet i