h learned the
use of smoking tobacco at this time.

[Illustration: RALEIGH'S ASTONISHMENT.]

He was astonished when he tried it first, and threatened to change his
boarding-place or take his meals out, but soon enjoyed it, and before
he had been home a week Queen Elizabeth thought it to be an excellent
thing for her house plants. It is now extensively used in the best
narcotic circles.

[Illustration: RALEIGH'S ENJOYMENT.]

Several other efforts were made by the English to establish colonies in
this country, but the Indians thought that these English people bathed
too much, and invited perspiration between baths.

One can see readily that the Englishman with his portable bath-tub has
been a flag of defiance from the earliest discoveries till this day.

This chapter brings us to the time when settlements were made as
follows:

The French at Port Royal, N.S., 1605.
The English at Jamestown 1607.
The French at Quebec 1608.
The Dutch at New York 1613.
The English at Plymouth 1620.

* * * * *

The author's thanks are due to the following books of reference,
which, added to his retentive memory, have made the foregoing
statements accurate yet pleasing:

A Summer in England with H. W. Beecher. By J. B. Reed.

Russell's Digest of the Laws of Minnesota, with Price-List of
Members.

Out-Door and Bug Life in America. By Chilblainy, Chief of the
Umatilla.

Why I am an Indian. By S. Bull. With Notes by Ole Bull and
Introduction by John Bull.

[Illustration: BONA FIDE PICTURE OF THE MAYFLOWER.]

CHAPTER III.

THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES.

This chapter is given up almost wholly to facts. It deals largely with
the beginning of the thirteen original colonies from which sprang the
Republic, the operation of which now gives so many thousands of men
in-door employment four years at a time, thus relieving the
penitentiaries and throwing more kindergarten statesmen to the front.

[Illustration: SAMPLE PURITAN.]

It was during this epoch that the Cavaliers landed in Virginia and the
Puritans in Massachusetts; the latter lived on maple sugar and armed
prayer, while the former saluted his cow, and, with bared head, milked
her with his hat in one hand and his life in the other.

Immigration now began to increase along the coast. The Mayflower began
to bring over vast quantitie