...have to tell you again, Lucy," said Ned, "and you must not forget my historical lectures so easily. In the good old Colony days, when we lived under the king, Connecticut had a charter, as the other colonies had, • given by the king, and granting certain rights...

...that commanded respect in Simon's day and place. And what mills of violence and torture the old meldes were! To maul and batter a victim till he was jelly,...Daniel Morgan, afterward the most gallant soldier the Old Dominion gave to the Revolution, and, excepting Washington, perhaps the ablest, was the bully...

...would doubtless have improved his literary style. However well such ideas may have passed muster " In the good old colony days When we lived under the King," They have long since been consigned to the limbo of exploded absurdities. The idea that it is the duty...

...wind. The magnificent water-power at the Amoskeag Falls had attracted the attention of capitalists in " the good old colony days, when we lived under the king"; and, soon after the establishment of the United States Government, Col. Samuel Blodget raised money...

...preliminary experiment, now high, now low, now middle. Presently he struck up, in tuneless, dull voice : In the good old colony days, When we lived under the king, Three rogues got in-to trouble — ah-h, Because they could not sing. There he stopped for breath,...

...22 years, though, in the earlier part of this period, the average age was probably somewhat less. " In the good old Colony days, when we lived under the King," it is probable that the average age at graduation was still less than in any part of the 75 years here...

...and bust arc painted with a freedom and dash suggesting a certain resemblance to Raeburn's manner. "In the good Old Colony days' when we lived under the King," Newport was a far more important place than New York and it was only Hitting that the leading painter...