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Title: A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony

Author: Alice Turner Curtis

Illustrator: Wuanita Smith

Release Date: December 1, 2008 [EBook #27377]

Language: English

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A LITTLE MAID
OF
MASSACHUSETTS
COLONY

BY

ALICE TURNER CURTIS

AUTHOR OF

A LITTLE MAID OF PROVINCE TOWN
A LITTLE MAID OF NARRAGANSETT BAY

ILLUSTRATED BY WUANITA SMITH

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA
1915

COPYRIGHT
1914 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

[Illustration: "A WONDERFUL THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN"]

Introduction

The first Anne Nelson story was "A Little Maid of Province Town," which
told how the little Cape Cod girl's father went away to fight for the
colonies, how she went to live with the Stoddards, how she escaped
perils from Indians and wolves, made an unexpected trip to Boston, and
carried an important message for the colonial army.

The girls and boys who made acquaintance in that book with Anne and with
Amanda and Amos Cary will be glad to read here how Amos won his heart's
desire,--to go a long voyage from the harbor of Province Town; Anne's
journey with the Indians, her imprisonment in the house in the woods,
and her escape; how she and Rose Freeman discovered "Aunt Anne Rose" on
the happy trip in Boston, and how Anne helped to capture an English
privateer, will hold the attention of young readers, and, incidentally,
show them something of the times and history of Revolutionary days in
New England.

Contents

I. AMANDA'S MISTAKE 9
II. ANNE DECIDES 22
III. A NEW FRIEND 32
IV. WITH THE MASHPEES 48
V. AT BREWSTER 61
VI. AMANDA'S CONSCIENCE