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"Not unless you substitute Saint Josselyn for an ancestor, as Mrs. Hunesley did the other day," said Miss Prowley. "Ha, ha! it might not be a bad plan to follow out the lady's suggestion: but do tell the story of her strange mistake." "Why, you must know that the other day old Doctor Dastick brought his New-York niece to call upon us.
Frank Scherman's; and Frank and his wife and little Sinsie, the baby, "she isn't Original Sin, as I was," says her mother, came up to Z together, and stopped at the hotel. Martha Josselyn came from New York, and stayed, of course, with the Inglesides. Martha is a horrible thing, girls; how do you suppose I dare to put her in here as I do? She is a milliner. And this is how it happens.
I may be wrong, but I have an idea that my patriarch was growing right where he stands, a young and vigorous sapling, when quaint old Josselyn wrote about those two voyages to New England in the early years of the seventeenth century. Josselyn gives us to understand that the wood of the white pine is that mentioned in the Scriptures as gopher wood out of which Noah built the ark.
At Outledge this party was the large and merry schoolgirl company with Madam Routh. "I don't see why," said Martha Josselyn, still looking out, as the "little red" left the door of the Green Cottage, "I don't see why those new girls who came last night should have got into everything in a minute, and we've been here a week and don't seem to catch to anything at all.
Josselyn found slaves on Noddle's Island in Boston Harbor at his first visit, though they were not held in a Puritan family. By 1687 a French refugee wrote home: "You may also here own Negroes and Negresses, there is not a house in Boston however small may be its means, that has not one or two.... Negroes cost from twenty to forty Pistoles."
There was a great flush on his face, and his eyes glowed with boy-enthusiasm lit at the thought of the war, and of brave men, and of noble, ministering women, of whom he suddenly found himself face to face with one. The game of chess got swept together. "It was as good as over," Martha Josselyn said.
Josselyn tells that the inhuman sport of wolf-baiting was popular in New England, and he describes it thus: "A great mastiff held the Wolf.... Tying him to a stake we bated him with smaller doggs and had excellent sport, but his hinder legg being broken we soon knocked his brains out." Wolves also were dragged alive at a horse's tail, a sport equally cruel to both animals.
Slavery is singularly cosmopolitan in its habits. The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world. Rooted in the human heart, it defies the rigors of winter in the steppes of Tartary and the fierce sun of the tropics. It has the universal acclimation of sin. The first account we have of negro slaves in New England is from the pen of John Josselyn.
John Josselyn, who was much of the time in New England from 1638 to 1671 and saw more marvels there than anybody else ever imagined, says, "I have sought for this berry he speaks of, as a man should for a needle in a bottle of hay, but could never light upon it; unless that kind of Solomon's seal called by the English treacle- berry should be it."
When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads." Wampum was the money in use among the Indians. It consisted of beautiful shells very curiously strung together. "Their beads," says John Josselyn, "are their money. Of these there are two sorts, blue beads and white beads. The first is their gold, the last their silver.
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