I waited the foive minuts, but he niver came, so off I druv to Misther Hollams, and he threated me han'some, sor."

That's what a President of the United States said to descendants of Mayflower crossers who'd been foully dealt with, and been druv from their substance and their homes, their wheat burned in the stack and in the shock, and themselves butchered or put into the wilderness.

" "But father and mother, surely" "Your pa and ma was druv in here with the rest, like cattle to the slaughter.

We soon druv into the beggest pleace I wur ever in since I wur born'd.

An', fact, I thought it was the wind a spell, Then some misdoubted,couldn't fairly tell, Fust sure, then not, jest as you hold an eel, I knowed, an' didn't,fin'lly seemed to feel 'T was Concord Bridge a-talkin' off to kill With the Stone Spike thet's druv thru Bunker Hill: Whether't was so, or ef I only dreamed, I couldn't say; I tell it ez it seemed.