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Title: The Story of Our Country
Every Child Can Read

Editor: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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THE STORY OF OUR COUNTRY

Every Child Can Read

Edited by

REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D.

Illustrated

[Illustration: STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL.]

[Illustration]

The John C. Winston Co.
Philadelphia

Copyright, 1910, By
The John C. Winston Co.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
A Talk with the Young Reader 9

CHAPTER I

COLUMBUS, THE GREAT SAILOR

Bold Sailors of the Northern Countries--The
Northmen--Columbus the Little Boy--Columbus
and the Egg--He Crosses the Atlantic, Braves
the Sea and Discovers New Land 15

CHAPTER II

THREE GREAT DISCOVERERS

John and Sebastian Cabot--Balboa Discovers the
Pacific--The Fountain of Youth and Ponce de
Leon--The Naming of America 27

CHAPTER III

THREE EARLY HEROES

The Story of John Smith and First English
Settlement--Miles Standish and the Pilgrims--Roger
Williams, the Hero Preacher 36

CHAPTER IV

HOW TH