e Bacon and his men were fighting the Indians again, Governor
Berkeley came back and talked more than ever about rebels and traitors.
This made Bacon and the people with him very angry. To be treated in
this way while they were saving the people from the Indian knife and
tomahawk was too bad. They marched against Jamestown again. This time
the governor did not run away, but prepared to defend the place with
soldiers and cannon.

But they did not fire their guns. Bacon had captured some of the wives
of the principal men, and he put them in front of his line as he
advanced. The governor did not dare bid his soldiers to fire on these
women, so he left the town again in a hurry, and it was taken by the
Indian fighters.

Bacon made up his mind that Governor Berkeley should not come back to
Jamestown again. He had the town set on fire and burned to the ground.
Some of the men with him set fire to their own houses, so that they
should not give shelter to the governor and his men. That was the end of
Jamestown. It was never rebuilt. Only ashes remained of the first
English town in America. To-day there is only an old church tower to
show where it stood.

We cannot tell what might have happened if brave young Bacon had lived.
As it was, he was taken sick and died. His men now had no leader, and
soon scattered. Then the governor came back full of fury, and began to
hang all those who opposed him. He might have put a great many of them
to death if the king had not stopped him and ordered him back to
England. This was King Charles II., whose father had been put to death
by Cromwell. He was angry at what Governor Berkeley had done, and said:

"That old fool has hung more men in that naked land than I did for the
murder of my father."

CHAPTER VIII

OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES

WHAT a wonderful change has come over this great country of ours since
the days of our grandfathers! Look at our great cities, with their grand
buildings, and their miles of streets, with swift-speeding electric
cars, and thousands of carriages and wagons, and great stores lit by
brilliant electric lights, and huge workshops filled with rattling
wheels and marvelous machines! And look at our broad fields filled with
cattle or covered by growing crops, and divided by splendid highways and
railroads thousands of miles in length! Is it not all very wonderful?

"But has it not always been this way?" some very young persons ask. "I
have lived so man