It was an odd sight to witness a colonist coming home after a long hard day hunting for pearls as he asked his wife if she would be good enough to pull an arrow out of some place which he could not reach himself. Raleigh spent two hundred thousand dollars in his efforts to colonize Virginia, and then, disgusted, divided up his patent and sold county rights to it at a pound apiece. This was in 1589. Raleigh learned the use of smoking tobacco at this time. [Illustration: RALEIGH'S ASTONISHMENT.] He was astonished when he tried it first, and threatened to change his boarding-place or take his meals out, but soon enjoyed it, and before he had been home a week Queen Elizabeth thought it to be an excellent thing for her house plants. It is now extensively used in the best narcotic circles. [Illustration: RALEIGH'S ENJOYMENT.] Several other efforts were made by the English to establish colonies in this country, but the Indians thought that these English people bathed too much, and invited perspiration between baths. One can see readily that the Englishman with his portable bath-tub has been a flag of defiance from the earliest discoveries till this day. This chapter brings us to the time when settlements were made as follows: The French at Port Royal, N.S., 1605. The English at Jamestown 1607. The French at Quebec 1608. The Dutch at New York 1613. The English at Plymouth 1620. * * * * * The author's thanks are due to the following books of reference, which, added to his retentive memory, have made the foregoing statements accurate yet pleasing: A Summer in England with H. W. Beecher. By J. B. Reed. Russell's Digest of the Laws of Minnesota, with Price-List of Members. Out-Door and Bug Life in America. By Chilblainy, Chief of the Umatilla. Why I am an Indian. By S. Bull. With Notes by Ole Bull and Introduction by John Bull. [Illustration: BONA FIDE PICTURE OF THE MAYFLOWER.] CHAPTER III. THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES. This chapter is given up almost wholly to facts. It deals largely with the beginning of the thirteen original colonies from which sprang the Republic, the operation of which now gives so many thousands of men in-door employment four years at a time, thus relieving the penitentiaries and throwing more kindergarten statesmen to the front. [Illustration: SAMPLE PURITAN.] It was during this epoch that the Cavaliers landed in Virginia and the Puritans in Massachusetts; the latter lived on maple sugar and armed prayer, while the former saluted his cow, and, with bared head, milked her with his hat in one hand and his life in the other.