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 100 and there was a running skirmish for several years, till at last the Rebellion collapsed in 1645 and Clayborne fled.

The Protestants now held the best hand, and outvoted the Catholics, so up to 1691 there was a never-dying fight between the two, which must have been entertaining to the unregenerate outsider who was taxed to pay for a double set of legislators. This fight between the Catholics and Protestants shows that intolerance is not confined to a monarchy.

In 1715 the fourth Lord Baltimore recovered the government by the aid of the police, and religious toleration was restored. Maryland remained under this system of government until the Revolution, which will be referred to later on in the most thrilling set of original pictures and word-paintings that the reader has ever met with.

Q. Who was William Penn? A. He founded Pennsylvania. Q. Was he a great fighter? A. No. He was a peaceable man, and did not believe in killing men or fighting. Q. Would he have fought for a purse of forty thousand dollars? A. No. He could do better buying coal lands of the Indians. Q. What is religious freedom? A. It is the art of giving intolerance a little more room. Q. Who was Lord Baltimore? A. See foregoing chapter.