le came there too, and it was not long before there was
plenty of work.

The first to come after John Smith and the Jamestown people were some
shiploads of Catholics. You should know that the Catholics were treated
in England even worse than the Puritans and the Quakers. The law said
they must go to the English Church instead of to their own. If they did
not they would have to pay a large sum of money or go to prison. Was not
this very harsh and unjust?

The Catholics were not all poor people. There were rich men and nobles
among them. One of these nobles, named Lord Baltimore, asked the King
for some land in America where he and his friends might dwell in peace
and have churches of their own. This was many years before William Penn
asked for the same thing. The King was a friend of Lord Baltimore and
told him he might have as much land as he could make use of. So he chose
a large tract just north of Virginia, which the King named Maryland,
after his wife, Queen Mary, who was a Catholic. All Lord Baltimore had
to pay for this was two Indian arrows every year, and a part of the gold
and silver, if any were found. This was done to show that the King still
kept some claim to Maryland, and did not give away all his rights.

And now comes a story much the same as I have told you several times
already. A shipload of Catholics and other people came across the ocean
to the new continent which Columbus had discovered many years before.
These sailed up the broad Chesapeake Bay. You may easily find this bay
on your maps. They landed at a place they called St. Mary's, where there
was a small Indian town. As it happened, the Indians at this town had
been so much troubled by fighting tribes farther north that they were
just going to move somewhere else. So they were very glad to sell their
town to the white strangers.

All they wanted for their houses and their corn fields were some
hatchets, knives and beads, and other things they could use. Gold and
silver would have been of no value to them, for they had never seen
these metals. The only money the Indians used was round pieces of
seashell, with holes bored through them. Before these people left their
town they showed the white men how to hunt in the woods and how to plant
corn. And their wives taught the white women how to make hominy out of
corn and how to bake johnny-cakes. So the people of Maryland did not
suffer from hunger like those of Virginia and New England, and they h