Identifier: goodstoriesforgr01olco (find matches)
Title: Good stories for great birthdays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Subjects: Children's literature Birthdays
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d the Pilgrims seesitting on the shoulders of a big Indian, but Johnhimself, covered with strings of beads! He hadbeen visiting in the Nauset village, where hisnew friend the big Indian had feasted andentertained him in his wigwam. And while the Indian was giving John over tothe Pilgrims, Aspinet announced that he and hispeople wished to make peace with the whitemen. So the Pilgrims made peace with him, andpresented him with a strong English knife.They gave another one to the big Indian inreturn for his kindness to John. Aspinet and hiswarriors then went back friendly and satisfied,to their village. So the lost boy was found. And so the buried corn was paid for at last. THE RATTLESNAKE CHALLENGE It was just before Christmas, when a strangeBrave came into Plymouth town, carrying a bun-dle of new arrows wrapped in a rattlesnake-skin.He asked for Tisquantum. When they toldhim that Tisquantum was away, he smiled andseemed glad. He laid down the skin, and turnedto run out of the town. -^i^
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JOHN BILLINGTON BROUGHT ON THE SHOULDERS OF AN INDIAN THE RATTLESNAKE CHALLENGE 137 But Governor Bradford did not like his looksnor his queer gift, so ordered Captain Standishto seize him. The Captain laid hold of him, andlocked him up for the night. At first the poorIndian shook so with fear that he could notspeak. Then as they questioned him gently, hegrew calmer. And when they promised to sethim free if he would tell who had sent him, heconfessed to being a messenger from Canonicus,the great Chieftain of the Naragansett Indians,a People powerful and many thousands strong, i Governor Bradford, in the morning, set himfree, bidding him go back to Canonicus and tellhim that if he would not live at peace with thewhite men, as their other Indian neighbours did,the white men would show him their wrath. The messenger listened quietly. He refused alloffers of food, but thanked the Pilgrims for theirkindness. Then he sped away to his master. When Tisquantum came back, they asked himwhat the

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