Betty Alden the First Born Daughter of the Pilgrims
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" Well, I know not. Had I been the judge the sentence should have been shorter and less spiteful. To my mind it is ONE! TWO! THREE! FIRE! 135 too much like the savages themselves to crop a man's ears, and set him in the stocks, and pelt him with gar- bage, and burn his house in his own sight, and mulct him of his money, and ship him out of the country, and after all leave him at liberty to pull the wool over the eyes of the big-wigs and come back again to plague us as he did before. 'T is woman...ish to invent so many ways of tormenting an offender, and yet not put further offense out of his power. " " And if you had been judge ? " asked Bradford with a shrewd smile. For answer the captain raised an imaginary piece to his shoulder and gave the word of command, " One ! Two ! Three ! FIRE ! " And with the last word he brought down his right foot with full force upon his own pipe, which had fallen unheeded from his pocket. The governor laughed, and Standish ruefully picked up the amber mouthpiece, ex- claiming, " Now, by my faith !
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