But you must remember, you Mayflower, that before every autumn there is a spring.

Surprised, but not defeated, Miss Aiken withdraws in good order, covering her retreat with two Mayflower ancestors, the existence of whom she establishes with a blue cup and an ancient silver spoon.

That small, unknown ship was the Mayflower; those men and women who crowded her decks were that little handful of God's own wheat which had been flailed by adversity, tossed and winnowed till every husk of earthly selfishness and self-will had been beaten away from them and left only pure seed, fit for the planting of a new world.

The little Mayflower lies swinging at her moorings in the harbor, while every man and boy who could use a tool has gone on shore to cut down and prepare timber for future houses.

Martha felt sometimes, in the vague way that one speculates about the impossible, that if she were brown, and had been brought up in North Carolina, she would be like Cicely; and that if Cicely's ancestors had come over in the Mayflower, and Cicely had been reared on Beacon Street, in the shadow of the State House dome, Cicely would have been very much like herself.

Miss Parker, Doctor, kind of favored her bein' called Aribelly, because there was one of that name rather come over in the Mayflower; but I think it's too mighty for a child that's got to work;what do you say?" "I think you're right, Miss 'Viny," said the Doctor, as gravely as he could.

The Mayflower compact (1620) The "Fundamental Orders" of Connecticut (1639) Germinal development of the colonial charter toward the modern state constitution Abnormal development of some recent state constitutions, encroaching upon the legislature The process of amending constitutions The Swiss "Referendum" QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CHAPTER VIII.

The first run was to Southampton, England, where some friends from London joined them in the Mayflower, and whence, August 5, they sailed for America.

September 6, 1620, such as remained steadfast, just 102 in number, reëmbarked on the Mayflower and began the most memorable of voyages.

[Illustration: The Mayflower] [Footnote 1: From the model in the National Museum, Washington.]

The Mayflower Compact%.Since it was then the 11th of November, the Pilgrims, as they are now called, decided to get permission from the Plymouth Company to remain permanently.

To put an end to this, a meeting was held, November 21, 1620, in the cabin of the Mayflower, and a compact was drawn up and signed.

To this harbor the Mayflower was brought, and the work of founding Plymouth was begun.

The permanent settlement of New England began with the arrival of a body of Separatists in the Mayflower (1620), who founded the colony of Plymouth.

On the 6th of February, 1820, the Mayflower of Liberia weighed anchor in New York harbor, and, convoyed by the U.S. sloop-of-war Cyane, steered her course toward the shores of Africa.

From Southampton the Mayflower and Speedwell sailed in 1620: the latter being discarded at Plymouth.

The story of these ships is not like that later one of the Mayflower.

O'Meara, the Mayflower and Mrs. MacLirr.

SEE MEADER, STEPHEN W. Mayflower boy.

Elizabeth of the Mayflower.

BAILLIEU, FELICIA M. Yonder sails the Mayflower.

Yonder sails the Mayflower.

Elizabeth of the Mayflower.

Lo! before us gleam her watch fires We ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly Through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the future's portal With the past's blood-rusted key.'

Underfoot my shoes brushed through spikenard, and fell silently on carpets of moss-pinks, and once I saw a matted bed of late Mayflower, and the forest dusk grew sweeter and sweeter, saturating all the woodland, until each breath I drew seemed to intoxicate.