Tales of St. Austin's
TALES OF ST AUSTIN'S by P. G. Wodehouse 1903 PREFACE Most of these stories originally appeared in _The Captain_. I am indebted to the Editor of that magazine for allowing me to republish. The rest are from the _Public School Magazine_. The story entitled 'A Shocking Affair' appears in print for the first time. 'This was one of our failures.'
Winnepurkit, otherwise called George, Sachem of Saugus, married a
daughter of Passaconaway, the great Pennacook chieftain, in 1662. The
wedding took place at Pennacook (now Concord, N. H.), and the ceremonies
closed with a great feast. According to the usages of the chiefs,
Passaconaway ordered a select number of his men to accompany the
newly-married couple to the dwelling of the husband, where in turn there
was another great feast. Some time after, the wife of Winnepurkit
expressing a desire to visit her father's house was permitted to go,
accompanied by a brave escort of her husband's chief men. But when she
wished to return, her father sent a messenger to Saugus, informing her
husband, and asking him to come and take her away. He returned for
answer that he had escorted his wife to her father's house in a style
that became a chief, and that now if she wished to return, her father
must send her back, in the same way. This Passaconaway refused to do,
and it is said that here terminated the connection of his daughter with
the Saugus chief.--Vide MORTON'S New Canaan.
WE had been wandering for many days
Through the rough northern country. We had seen
The sunset, with its bars of purple cloud,
Like a new heaven, shine upward from the lake
Of Winnepiseogee; and had felt
TALES OF ST AUSTIN'S by P. G. Wodehouse 1903 PREFACE Most of these stories originally appeared in _The Captain_. I am indebted to the Editor of that magazine for allowing me to republish. The rest are from the _Public School Magazine_. The story entitled 'A Shocking Affair' appears in print for the first time. 'This was one of our failures.'