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��How Polly Came Home.

��Office in England a petition of his wife to pardon her husband. She gives as his excuse that he was intoxi- cated at the time, and hints at a streak of insanity which ran in his family. After his return to America he lived but a short time, and always contend- ed that a slow poison had been admin- istered to him in prison. His house, a part of it, still stands in Seabrook, and there is growing on the premises a pear-tree which it is said he brought from England with him. His descend- ants became Quakers, and some of them still worship in the old Quaker meeting-house in Seabrook, which was

��formerly a part of Hampton ; and it is near this old church that Gove's re- mains lie buried.

Thus ended the first rebellion in New England. It hastened Cran- field's removal, but was of little per- manent consequence compared with that which occasioned the downfall of Sir Edmund Andros six years after- ward, when Cranfield, Randolph, and many other supporters of tyi-anny went down with Sir Edmund. Randolph, who had been active in punishing Gove, was himself imprisoned in Bos- ton, and wrote many piteous letters to King William asking to be set free.

��HOW POLLY CAME HOME.

��BY CLARA AUGUSTA.

��Elisha and I have allers worked hard, and saved up all we could, Not that we expected it would ever do us much good. But there was Tom and Moses, and there was E^lizy Ann, And she was our only darter, and she had n't much of a man ! He was kinder shiftless and lazy, and never see nothin' to do : He was born so awfully tired he 'd never got rested through !

I said that Elizy Ann was all the darter we had :

We had another one, Polly, — but Polly she managed bad.

Jim Pearl, as worked at days' works, she captivated his eye.

And she was a silly young flirt, and he courted her all on the sly :

But as soon as Elisha found out how matters were goiu' along.

He reasoned with Polly, and told her she 'd done uncommonly wrong !

He and I talked it over, nights, after we'd got into bed. And the boys wa'n't round, nor nobody else, to hear what was said. Elisha, he'd get so excited he'd kick off the bed-clothes like sin. Which is awful provokin', I think, after once a body 's tucked in : And he swore by some oaths that are mild and fit for a deacon to use, He 'd disown Pollv forever, if she did n't come round to his views.

��Elisha is sot as the hills : no man could lie more so than he :

But Polly 's a chip of the old block, and a good deal more sotter is she ;

And when her father explained she must give the mitten to Jim,

She kept on hemmin' a ruffle and hummin' a Methodist hymn ;

And 1 thouglit to myself she was taking it dreadful quiet and mild,

But Polly 's a person that never allows herself to get riled.

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