Duxbury Hall in England, where the Standishes lived. There's a little mystery about the Captain. No one knows exactly why he came with the Pilgrims. He does n't seem to have been made pre

cisely out of the same material, but he was a good soldier, and he was worth a host to the young colony. There, this is the house, and it's pretty certain that Alexander Standish used some of the

timbers out of the old house that was burned, for you can see marks on the beams in some places where they used a whipsaw, and as they had saw-mills in Alexander's time, it's not likely he would have used a whipsaw, though that's not certain."

"What is a whipsaw?

"It's a big saw with two handles, worked by a couple of men, but it's slow work. That is n't the only sign though, for the beams

show evidence of having been used before. They are of oak, and people have found the mortises and tenons used in the old framing. But we'll ask to go inside."

Uncle Elisha knocked and a woman came to the door. Her goodnatured face looked very familiar, and puzzled Mrs. Bodley a moment. Lucy plucked her mother's gown, but before she could whisper, the woman herself spoke out.

"It's ye, is it? An are ye lookin' for St. John's wort?" and she broke into a laugh. It was their stage-coach acquaintance of a fortnight ago. Uncle Elisha did n't quite make out the meaning of her question.

"We've called to ask if these children could see the inside of the old Standish House," he explained.

“Walk in, walk in. It's not me that knows annything about the old house. I only came yisterday, and the misthress is away. But I know the leddy and her family. Ye're wilcome, ma'am. It's a quare old place." She led them into a room where they saw a great fire-place with a crane and an old brick oven. A warmingpan hung on the chimney.

There," said Uncle Elisha, "this old hearth-stone is said to have