Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1895. | FIVE CENTS A COPY. |
VOL. XVII.—NO. 836. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. |
It was the first day of June. The air was balmy with sweet odors, thesky was clear and blue, and everything that could sing or make a noisewas endeavoring to rejoice. And this was his Britannic Majesty's colonyof New Jersey in the year of grace 1772.
Out of a little valley that separated two lines of thickly wooded hills,whose sides still gleamed with the fast departing blossoms, ra