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Updated: May 16, 2025
Mr Schute is very lonely; no one speaks to him, and his eyes are so weak that he can't amuse himself by reading. He is a very interesting old man, and I assure you his `h's' are above reproach. Will you have a game of halma with him this afternoon instead of me, and so set me free from my promise?" Haughty Hector's stare of amazement was a sight to behold.
The nurse of those peevish little Mortons is worn out, for the mother is ill, and can't help her at all, so I promised to amuse the children for an hour after lunch while she takes a nap. Then I have to play a game of halma with old Mr Schute, and help Miss Ranger to dress and come on deck. She thinks she can manage it to-day, and it will do her a world of good to get some fresh air."
The proprietor of one of the big drapers' shops in Calcutta." "It was a very good shop," said Peggy reflectively. "They were most obliging in sending patterns. Two of the assistants were in a class mother held for English girls, and they said he was so kind and considerate, and had even paid to send some of them to the hill, after they had been ill. I've a great respect for Mr Schute."
Risingh then put the fortifications in order, appointed his discreet and vigilant friend Suen Schute, otherwise called Skytte, a tall, wind-dried, water-drinking Swede, to the command, and departed, bearing with him this truly amiable garrison and its puissant commander, who, when brought to himself by a sound drubbing, bore no little resemblance to a "deboshed fish," or bloated sea-monster, caught upon dry land.
After an hour's parley, Bikker went out, leaving the gate of the fort wide open, and shook hands with Schute and his men, welcoming them as friends. The Swedes fired two shots over the fort in token of its capture and then, blotting out the Dutch garrison, named it Fort Trinity, as the surrender was on Trinity Sunday, 1654. Stuyvesant was enraged and perplexed by this surrender.
It was astonishing how often he was forced to retire from post to post in arguments with Miss Saville, and the consciousness that this was the case gave him courage to enter yet a third protest. "Well, at least, old Schute is hearty enough! There is no necessity to pity him; and, really, don't you know, he is hardly the right sort of friend for you. Do you know who he is?
Governor Printz returned to Sweden, and in his place the warlike magistrate John Risingh came to the Delaware with some soldiers under the bold Swen Schute, and appeared before Fort Cassimer demanding its surrender. The Dutch residents fled to the fort demanding protection; but Bikker the commander said: "I have no powder. What can I do?"
He landed his force on the beach between Fort Cassimer and Fort Christina near Wilmington, and an ensign with a drum was sent to the fort to demand the surrender. The warlike Schute complied next day, and in the presence of Stuyvesant and his suite he drank the health of the governor in a glass of Rhenish wine. So ended the bloodless conquest.
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