35. Chalettr Bay, in Newfoundland, a part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE of NEWBURY
6. Deucalion flood. The python was a monstrous serpent which arose from the mud left after the flood in which Deucalion survived. The python lived in a cave on Mount Parnassus and there Apollo slew him. Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha were saved from the flood because Zeus respected their piety. They obeyed the oracle and threw stones behind them from which sprang men and women to repopulate the earth.
9. See "The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall" for another story of Newbury town.
22. stones of Cheops: an Egyptian king, about 2900 b.c.; built the great pyramid, which is called by his name.
59. Each town in colonial days set aside certain land for free pasture-land for the inhabitants.
80. double-ganger: a double or apparition of a person; here, a reptile moving in double form.
76. Cotton Mather (1663-1728). This precocious boy entered Harvard College at eleven and graduated at fifteen. At seventeen he preached his first sermon and all his life was a zealous divine. He was undoubtedly sincere in his judgments in the cases of witchcraft and was not thoughtlessly cruel. He was a great writer and politician and a public- minded citizen.
85. Wonder-Book of Cotton Mather is his story of early New England life called Magnalia Christi Americana.
MAUD MULLER