"They were not poor like the Pilgrims. They brought plenty of clothes and furniture, horses, cattle, and pigs, and everything they needed to make themselves comfortable. They did not have to suffer as the Pilgrims did.
"The first Puritans came to Salem. They said:
"'The word Salem means peace. It is a good name for our new home.'
"Hundreds of Puritans followed the first ones who came to America. They settled in Boston and other places near by. They built forts and schoolhouses, besides homes for themselves.
"They planted wheat and rye as well as Indian corn. They cut down the forests and caught fish and salted them. They bought furs from the Indians, and sent them, as well as lumber and salt fish, to England. The English people were glad to buy these things and sent in return books, tools, and other things the Puritans needed in their new home."
Uncle Sam stopped to rest a moment. Then he went on:
"Maybe you think the Pilgrims were strict."
Joe and Lucy nodded their heads.
"Well, I suppose they were. We call their ways old-fashioned, now-a-days. But if you had lived in their time, you would have been a good deal happier with them than with the Puritans.
"Strict! Why, the Puritans wanted to make everybody believe just as they did. They did not have any patience with those who did not agree with them.