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of the stirring morning air,
 * Untouched by the city’s grime,

But over the salty ocean blown
 * From a purer, airier clime.

A glimpse of the mighty ocean,
 * With its solemn sweep and roll;

Or the sweet low tones of the Angelus,
 * Calling “Listen!” to the soul.

A page or a line from a fine old book
 * That strikes a note akin;

Or the beauty of an unfolding mind
 * Where wisdom is entering in,

A longed-for letter from a friend,
 * Across the wide, deep sea,

Or a glimpse of a strong, congenial face
 * Where a future friend may be.

A wee, frail floweret, growing In hidden, lowly nook— All these may worlds of pleasure bring To him who will but look.}}

is hard for me to tell which is my favorite episode in American history; but I believe it is the settling of Pennsylvania.

I like the Quakers better than the Puritans, because they remembered how they had been persecuted, and did not persecute those whose religion differed from theirs. The Puritans seemed to forget, for they persecuted the Quakers as fiercely as they were persecuted in England.

The King of England, Charles II, owed a large sum of money to Penn’s father, which he did not like to pay to Penn because he was a Quaker. Instead, he granted him a large tract of land called Pennsylvania from Penn’s sylvia (Penn's woods).

Penn, owning this land, resolved to make it a place of refuge for the Quakers. Some came soon after, in 1682. Penn himself came a little later.

The Quakers paid the Indians for the land, knowing, and rightly, that the land really belonged to them and not to the King of England. They also let the Indians live on the land they had sold.

At a council with the Indians, Penn said: “I will not call you my children, for fathers sometimes must punish their children. I will not call you ‘Brother,’ for brothers sometimes quarrel. But I will call you the same person as the white man. We are as two parts of the same body.”

That quarrels might he decided without violence, the Indians were to choose six out of their number, and the Quakers six out of theirs. The twelve persons were to meet and settle the quarrel.

No wonder the Indians never troubled the Quakers!