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Updated: May 12, 2025
It was almost dark when we approached the house; a real farmhouse, with lilac and syringa bushes in front, and a honeysuckle running over the piazza. A little dog came out and barked at us a sensible-looking cat rested on the porch and in the door-way stood Cousin Statia.
Yet once, strange as it may seem, for a few brief months, Statia became the scene of a wild commercial orgy, and the place where once was held "the most stupendous auction in the history of the universe."
Aunt Henshaw, though kind, did not appear to me in the light of a playmate, and Cousin Statia seldom opened her lips being too industrious to waste time in talking; so that, for want of more suitable company, I descended to the kitchen.
After breakfast, Cousin Statia proceeded to wash up the cups and saucers, which she always did for fear of their being broken; Aunt Henshaw proceeded to the poultry yard, and I accompanied her. She had a large tin pan in her hand, filled with moistened Indian meal, with which she fed the chickens; of which there seemed an endless number, both old and young.
I spent the morning in wandering about; and in the afternoon I sat in the parlor with Cousin Statia, who was knitting as fast as her needles could fly. I asked her for a book; and after some search, she handed me the "Pilgrim's Progress," in which I soon became deeply interested, while Aunt Henshaw took a nap in her chair.
For some distance the ladies went forward without saying a word. A spell of utter silence had fallen upon the party. Then Mrs. Wright spoke. "Statia." "Yes." "Do you remember what we studied about gravity?" "Why, certainly. Every certain number of feet a thing falls it goes twice as fast." "Well, I have made a discovery just as good as Sir Isaac Newton's.
The colored woman having agreed to perform the office, and Aunt Henshaw and Statia being out for the afternoon, I seated myself on a chair with my back against the dresser; while Sylvia mounted the few steps that led to her sleeping-room in order to search for a needle, and Holly endeavored to keep up my courage by representing the fascinating appearance I should present when decorated with ear-rings.
Cousin Statia had been looking towards the door, when she suddenly inquired: "Did you ever tell her about the bullet hole?" "Why, no," replied the old lady, "I do not believe I ever did. Have you noticed the round hole in the front door, Amy?"
"And, so, the United States was for the first time recognized as a nation by this salute of eleven guns. "For this act, De Graeff was subsequently recalled to Holland, but he was reinstated as Governor of Statia, and held that position when the island was taken by Rodney in 1781. The Dutch made no apology to England." Saba, which lies close to Statia, depends for its interest on its location.
"Hurry up, Statia; get your things off and come here Wait, Mrs. Osgood; don't tell anymore till Kitty is here Sh-h-h-h; be careful what you say before Grandma Plympton."
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