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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,.,^)^J^i^j/yy^^ -sr^AArrjtcr/ff/K ^ 34 J. SMITH, ESQ. To make matters worse, the Fevernager. a terrible disease of the period, got among them, and by fall only a handful of the colonists remained, and these were a very shaky lot indeed, with not clothing enough amongthem to wad a shot-gun. Among this seedy band was one John Smith, who, being out of funds himself, and a public spirited person withal, saw that unless provisions could be obtained shortly, the scheme of colonizing America would be a failure. He went into the lecture field, holding forth to large and fashionable audiences, composed of intelligent savages, upon the science of navigation, illustrating his lecture with an old mariners compass that indicated all four of the cardinal points at once, and a superannuated bulls-eye watch that
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36 -3^-ff. SMITH MISUNDERSTOOD. would do nothing but tick. These simple-minded children of nature listened with attentive ears, and looked on with wondering eyes, and came down largely with green corn, sardines, silk hats, hard boiled eggs, fall overcoats, pickled oysters, red hand-kerchiefs, ice cream, dried herring, kid gloves, pickled tripe, and other Indian luxuries, which proved invaluable to the starving, threadbare colonists. Thus it is seen that Mr. Smith obtained on ticld^ whathe had no cash to pay for. Although Mr. Smith was regarded as a talented man from a scientific point of view, and was even mentioned in the native papers as undoubtedly a god, yet he was sometimes grossly misunderstood by these * The reader may occasionally find this sort of thing in these pages but he is entreated not to be startled. TEE PLOT COAGULATES. 37 artless aborigines, and on one occasion they arrested liini on a general charge of hocus-pocus or witchcraft, and carried him before Chief Justice Powhatan to

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