their province back to the king. It was then divided into two colonies,
known as North Carolina and South Carolina. As for the lords and barons,
nobody heard of them any more.

The people of the Carolinas had other things beside the Grand Model of
government to trouble them. There were savage Indians back in the
country who attacked them and killed many of them. And there were
pirates along the coast who attacked ships and killed all on board. But
rice and indigo were planted, and afterwards cotton, and much tar and
turpentine were got from the pine trees in North Carolina, and as the
years went on these colonies became rich and prosperous, and the people
began to have a happy time.

I hope none of my young readers are tired of reading about kings and
colonies. I am sure they must have enjoyed reading about John Smith and
Miles Standish and William Penn and the rest of the great leaders. At
any rate, there is only one more colony to talk about, and then we will
be through with this part of our story. This is the colony of Georgia,
which lies in the tract of land between South Carolina and Florida.

I am sure that when you are done reading this book you will be glad that
you did not live two or three hundred years ago. To-day every one can
think as he pleases, and do as he pleases, too, if he does not break the
laws. And the laws are much more just and less cruel than they were in
former times. Why, in those days, every man who owed money and could not
pay it might be put in prison and kept there for years. He could not
work there and earn money to pay his debts, and if his friends did not
pay them he might stay there till he died. As I have told you, even the
good William Penn was put in prison for debt, and kept there till his
friends paid the money.

There were as many poor debtors in prison as there were thieves and
villains. Some of them become sick and died, and some were starved to
death by cruel jailers, who would not give them anything to eat if they
had no money to pay for food. One great and good man, named General
James Oglethorpe, visited the prisons, and was so sorry for the poor
debtors he saw there, that he asked the king to give him a piece of land
in America where he could take some of these suffering people.

There was now not much land left to give. Settlements had been made all
along the coast except south of the Carolinas, and the king told General
Oglethorpe that he could have the land which la