Chapter I: Front Matter

A LITTLE MAID OF MASSACHUSETTS COLONY

BY

ALICE TURNER CURTIS

AUTHOR OF

A LITTLE MAID OF PROVINCE TOWN A LITTLE MAID OF NARRAGANSETT BAY

ILLUSTRATED BY WUANITA SMITH

THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 1915

COPYRIGHT 1914 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Introduction

The first Anne Nelson story was "A Little Maid of Province Town," which told how the little Cape Cod girl's father went away to fight for the colonies, how she went to live with the Stoddards, how she escaped perils from Indians and wolves, made an unexpected trip to Boston, and carried an important message for the colonial army.

The girls and boys who made acquaintance in that book with Anne and with Amanda and Amos Cary will be glad to read here how Amos won his heart's desire,--to go a long voyage from the harbor of Province Town; Anne's journey with the Indians, her imprisonment in the house in the woods, and her escape; how she and Rose Freeman discovered "Aunt Anne Rose" on the happy trip in Boston, and how Anne helped to capture an English privateer, will hold the attention of young readers, and, incidentally, show them something of the times and history of Revolutionary days in New England.

Contents

I. AMANDA'S MISTAKE 9
II. ANNE DECIDES 22
III. A NEW FRIEND 32
IV. WITH THE MASHPEES 48
V. AT BREWSTER 61
VI. AMANDA'S CONSCIENCE 75
VII. THE BLACK-BEARDED MAN 88
VIII. THROUGH THE WINDOW 104
IX. LADY DISAPPEARS 117
X. AUNT ANNE ROSE 131
XI. IN BOSTON 140
XII. A WONDERFUL DAY 149
XIII. ANNE'S BOOK 162
XIV. ANNE AND MILLICENT 173
XV. AMOS APPEARS 184
XVI. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR 192
XVII. THE STRANGE SCHOONER 204
XVIII. A GREAT ADVENTURE 213
XIX. "HOMEWARD BOUND" 221

Illustrations

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"A WONDERFUL THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN"
_Frontispiece_

"SIT THERE AND BE QUIET" 42

"YOU CAN GET ON HIS BACK" 132

HE HANDED HER A BALL 177

"YOU ARE THE BRAVEST GIRL IN THE COLONY" 220

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony