does make. We have so much wood. Papa says we would be rich if we had this timber in England. I gather chips. We had a nice time roasting chestnuts this fall in the ashes. I have four quarts dried. The new house is built of logs and all nicely plastered inside. We'll be good and warm this winter. There is room in the fireplace for papa's big chair and mamma's rocker. There is a bench on the other side of the fire for us children. There is a little narrow window near the chimney where the spinning wheel stands. I've learned to bake cakes on the coals. We have a Dutch oven now. I wish thee could have seen our garden this summer. Be sides the rows or sage, camomile, thyme, comfrey and rue, with yarrow and some onions, we have great big love ap ples. They are almost as large as an apple. They grow on a bushy plant which starts from a sced in the spring. Uncle Henry found them last summer among the Indians, and brought some of the seeds home. Mamma says they are poison if we eat them. They are just pretty to look at. The inen dug a long, winding ditch around the meadow bank this fall. It will carry the water along the side of the meadow so they can let it out to run all over the bank. It keeps the grass very green and pretty. We have so many horses and cows that are not ours. Papa is Ranger now, and takes up all strays. Thee don't know about this, does thee? Well, everybody here lets their cows and horses run loose in the woods. Sometimes they don't come back, and it takes a long time to find them. We heard of a little girl this fall who got lost while hunting for the cows. Dark came on and she heard the wolves howling. It was very late when she found the cows all huddled together. Her father found her next morning fast asleep alongside of the bell cow. She was safe and sound. I'm glad I wasn't that little girl. All the cows here have ear marks. William Penn's cows have this mark. I copied it from papa's book: It must hurt to have their ears cut. I also found this in the book. Papa put it in last sum. mer: "Att the fall of the yeare 1684 there came a long-bodyed bb cow with this eare marke. She was very wild, and being a stranger, after publication, none owning her, James Harrison, att the request of Luke Brindley, the Ranger, wintered her, and upon the twenty-third of the 7th Mo., 1685, the cow was slaughtered and divided, two-thirds to the Governor, and one-third to the Ranger after James Harrison had 60 lbs. of her beef for the wintering of her att j of" (10 shillings sterling). So thee sees we have plenty of meat. We have 200 shad that were caught last spring and salted. Some of them are very big. The boys were out hunting yesterday and brought in two wild turkeys. We'll have one for dinner on Sixth-day, which is Monthly Meeting, and the other on First-day. Mamma has school for me every day. She is the teacher and I am the scholars. I am head of my class. Papa says that if I keep on doing that well he will send me to England to school when I get big. Then I'll see thee, grandma, and the dear old place I love so well. There is no more room on the paper, so I must stop. With lots of kisses and two pats for dear old Rover, 1 remain thy affectionate granddaughter, SALLY BRINDLEY. Penn's presence composed, at least superficially, most of the differences. No one questioned his authority. He was displeased with the too great tendencies to license, as he deemed them, but wisely accepted the inevitable, and granted such changes in fundamental law as were desired. His two years-all too short a time for the work to be done-were full of conferences with the Council and Assembly, of visits to and from Indian chiefs, of religious services in the numerous meeting houses which were now scattered over the three upper counties. Matters were left in quietness, though for a few years an unfortunate choice of a Deputy Governor delayed the better days. Three political parties sprang into existence on Penn's departure. There was first the party devoted to proprietary interests and sympathies, embracing the more wealthy and highly educated Quakers, principally of Philadelphia, of which in a little time James Logan came to be recognized as the leader. Secondly, there was the popular party, led by David Lloyd, composed mainly of country Friends, and reinforced in time by sympathetic Germans and other liberty-loving people; and thirdly, there was an opposition non-Quaker party, not strong in Council or Assembly, whose ultimate object was to make a crown colony and an established church. James Logan and David Lloyd were such prominent men in early Pennsylvania, that they deserve more than a passing notice. James Logan was born in Ireland in 1674 of Scotch parents, who were Friends. When William Penn was coming to Pennsylvania, in 1699, 11 |