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“AS THEY DEFILED THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL GATE THAT STOOD AT THE HEAD OF WALL STREET” Frontispiece
“BLACKSMITHS SUFFERED THEIR FIRES TO GO OUT” 3
THE EDICT OF WILLIAM THE TESTY 9
A LONG PIPE 11
A POT-HOUSE POLITICIAN 13
THE MERRYLANDERS WERE FOND OF BOXING 19
“I LOWER IT TO NONE” 25
“A WHOLE ROW OF HELDERBERGERS REARED THEIR ROUND BURLY HEADS” 29
THE WISE MEN AND SOOTHSAYERS 32
“THEY SOLD THEM GUNS THAT EXPLODED AT THE FIRST FIRING” 39
DUTCH FAMILY PIPE 43
“DRINKING, FIDDLING AND DANCING” 49
“SO AS TO DELIGHT THE GOVERNOR WHILE AT HIS REPASTS” 61
“A NANTUCKET WHALER WITH A SPY GLASS TWICE AS LONG” 71
xii“THE OLD WOMEN REJOICED THAT THERE WAS TO BE NO WAR” 73
“THE ANGRY BULL BUTTS WITH HIS HORNS” 78
TWO AMBASSADORS 81
“SNIVELLING SCOURINGS, BROILS, AND MARAUDINGS, KEPT UP ON THE EASTERN FRONTIERS” 85
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS INJURED 89
“TWANGING HIS TRUMPET LIKE A VERY DEVIL” 93
“THE KNOWING COMMISSIONERS WINKED TO EACH OTHER” 97
THE MILITIA 105
THE FORTIFICATIONS 107
“HAVING A MOST SUSPICIOUS PREDILECTION FOR BLACK CATS AND BROOMSTICKS” 111
THE WORTHY JUDGES 114
JAN JANSEN ALPENDAM 119
“HE FRIGHTED ALL, CATS, DOGS, AND ALL” 123
VAN POFFENBURGH’S VALOR 127
KELDERMEESTER 129
PETRUS STUYVESANT 135
JAN PRINTZ 139
THE MOSQUITO PLAGUE 141
“THE MAIN GUARD WAS TURNED OUT” 146
“WITH GREAT CEREMONY, INTO THE FORT” 149
“TO ROB ALL THE HEN-ROOSTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD” 152
DIRK SCHUILER 157
“AND PADDLED OVER TO NEW AMSTERDAM” 161
xiii“AND STUMPING UP AND DOWN STAIRS” 164
“SOME LITTLE INDIAN VILLAGE” 171
THE OMNIPOTENT MANETHO 174
THE KILLING OF THE STURGEON 179
“THESE WERE OF A SOUR ASPECT” 184
“AS THEY DEFILED THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL GATE THAT STOOD AT THE HEAD OF WALL STREET” 185
“A CREW OF HARD SWEARERS” 191
“CRAMMED THE POCKETS OF HER HERO WITH GINGERBREAD AND DOUGHNUTS” 198
“HAVING SHOT THE DEVIL WITH A SILVER BULLET, ONE DARK STORMY NIGHT” 201
“BARRICADED THE DOORS AND WINDOWS EVERY EVENING AT SUNDOWN” 204
“MARCHED OUT WITH THE HONORS OF WAR” 207
ANIMATING HARANGUES 212
“BEFORE A BIT OF BROKEN LOOKING-GLASS, SHAVING HIMSELF” 217
MARS AS A DRUNKEN CORPORAL 223
THE CHARGE 227
THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE 230
“ON BLUNDERED AND THUNDERED THE HEAVY-STERNED FUGITIVES” 233
“THIS HEAVEN-DIRECTED BLOW DECIDED THE BATTLE” 238
“SPITTING HALF A DOZEN LITTLE FELLOWS ON HIS SWORD” 243
xivTHE SHADES OF DEPARTED AND LONG-FORGOTTEN HEROES 246
“MYNHEER WILLIAM BEEKMAN” 250
“THE OLD WOMEN FLOCKED AROUND ANTONY” 252
“‘NAY, BUT,’ SAID PETER, ‘TRY YOUR INGENUITY, MAN’” 262
“SEATED ON THE ‘STOEP’ BEFORE HIS DOOR” 265
“PLATTER-BREECHES” 269
NEW YEAR’S DAY AT THE GOVERNOR’S 273
THE DANCE 275
A SUSQUESAHANOCK 281
A BUXOM LASS 289
THE JOURNEY 291
“THEY BESTRODE THEIR CANES AND GALLOPED OFF IN HORRIBLE CONFUSION” 293
LORD STERLING 298
“HE WAS TREATED TO A SIGHT OF PLYMOUTH ROCK” 304
“NOR WOULD HE GO OUT OF A NIGHT WITHOUT A LANTERN” 311
THE LONG TALK AT THE COUNCIL-FIRE 317
“THE SUDDEN ENTRANCE OF A MESSENGER” 321
THE ARRIVAL OF PETER 325
“WAS TO MOUNT THE ROOF, WHENCE HE CONTEMPLATED WITH RUEFUL ASPECT THE HOSTILE SQUADRON” 328
“METAMORPHOSING PUMPS INTO FORMIDABLE SOLDIERS” 331
xvA PUBLIC MEETING IN FRONT OF THE STADTHOUSE 335
THE DEATH OF ANTONY VAN CORLEAR 341
“APOLLO PEEPING OUT NOW AND THEN FOR AN INSTANT” 344
DETERMINED COCK 352
“A LEGION OF BRITISH BEEF-FED WARRIORS POURED INTO NEW AMSTERDAM” 357
“CONDUCTED EVERY STRAY HOG OR COW IN TRIUMPH TO THE POUND” 362
“ON APRIL FOOL’S ERRANDS FOR PIGEON’S MILK” 365
“‘WELL, DEN!—HARDKOPPIG PETER BEN GONE AT LAST!’” 369
