The Farmer Boy, And How He Became Commander-in-Chief
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They pre- tended, that, as this pious man had paddled a little canoe up and down this splendid river a few hundred miles, his royal master, the King of France, was thereby entitled to all the lands watered by It, and the ten thousand streams that empty into it.
The English, on the other hand, claimed it by the light of purchase ; having, as they said, bought It at a fair price of the Six Nations, a powerful league or union of several Indian tribes inhabiting the region round about the great lak...es Erie and Ontario.
What right the Six Nations had to It, is impossible to say. They claimed It, however, by the doubtful right of conquest; there being a tradition among them, that their ancestors, many generations before, had overrun the country, and subdued Its Inhabit- ants.
Now, the poor Indians who occupied the land in question were very Indignant indeed when they heard that they and theirs had been sold to the white strangers by their red enemies, the Six Nations, whom they regarded as a flock of meddlesome crows, that were always dipping their ravenous bills Into matters that 'did not In the least concern them ; and their simple heads were sorely perplexed and puzzled, that two great kings, dwelling In far-distant coun- tries, thousands of miles away beyond the mighty ocean, should, in the midst of uncounted riches, fall 112 THE FARMER BOY.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They pre- tended, that, as this pious man had paddled a little canoe up and down this splendid river a few hundred miles, his royal master, the King of France, was thereby entitled to all the lands watered by It, and the ten thousand streams that empty into it.
The English, on the other hand, claimed it by the light of purchase ; having, as they said, bought It at a fair price of the Six Nations, a powerful league or union of several Indian tribes inhabiting the region round about the great lak...es Erie and Ontario.
What right the Six Nations had to It, is impossible to say. They claimed It, however, by the doubtful right of conquest; there being a tradition among them, that their ancestors, many generations before, had overrun the country, and subdued Its Inhabit- ants.
Now, the poor Indians who occupied the land in question were very Indignant indeed when they heard that they and theirs had been sold to the white strangers by their red enemies, the Six Nations, whom they regarded as a flock of meddlesome crows, that were always dipping their ravenous bills Into matters that 'did not In the least concern them ; and their simple heads were sorely perplexed and puzzled, that two great kings, dwelling In far-distant coun- tries, thousands of miles away beyond the mighty ocean, should, in the midst of uncounted riches, fall 112 THE FARMER BOY.
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