Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting (1904) (14583665437)

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Title: Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, 1855- (from old catalog)

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Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hile ago, when youwere preaching, he exclaimed. Yes, said Scribbins, I knew what it meant then. The Quakers loved to point to Scribbins as an illus-tration of their favourite article of belief, that the Spiritanimated even fools and made the dull His mouthpiecein the expression of inspired truth. One day Scribbins was sleeping under a tree andawoke with a jumping toothache, which he was sure hecould not possibly survive. After enduring the agonytill he thought it must shortly make an end of him, hemanaged to write on a bit of paper, James Scribbinsdied of a tooth-ache. This he pinned upon the treeand laid down beneath it to die, but presently his pain A Budget of Legends 367 was assuaged and forgetting all about the notice hehad written he went on his way. It was found by aneighbour, and the report of his death spread abroad,but the search for his body resulted in a conviction thatthe report of his death, like a similar bit of news con-cerning Mark Twain, had been grossly exaggerated.

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Index Adams, John, 6i Aldrich, Captain James, 318 Aldrich, Senator, 41 Alexander, son of Massasoit, log, noAlfred, the, under com:nand of Paul Jones, 143AiTierica, i, 2American Navy, 100American Revolution, 184Anderson, 2 Annaquatucket River, 343Antinomians in Rhode Island, 21, 279- 315 Apponaug, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 Aquidneck, 6, 10, 21, 26, 27, 34, 64,70, 71, 76, 83, 192, 198, 210, 272,274, 278, 287, 299, 314, 317, 318 Aquidneck settlers, 280 Army of observation, 326 Arnold, Benedict, 14, 278 Arnold, Colonel William, 335 Arnold family, 45, 335 Arnold, Welcome, 170 Arnold, William, 36 Assameqviin, 315 Assembly House at Warwick, 38, 41Atherton Company, 251Atherton, Humphrey, 221, 222 B Babbitt house, Bristol, 84 Babcock, George W., 341 Barnstable, 116 Barrington, 33 Barrington, Major, 196 Barron, Commodore, his duel with Decatur, 305Barton, Colonel William, loi, 192, 195, 197, 341 Battle of Tiverton Heights, 207. 315 Batts Hill, 206 Baulston, William, 279, 316 Bay of Refuge, 5 B

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