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of it with intelligent Americans with no more hesitation 
than he has in speaking of them to his own townsmen. 
If school books do not always treat of the period in the 
same spirit, they ought to do so in justice to both 
countries, and for the simple sake of truth. 
If Nature heals every scar in the landscape by the silent 
growth of vegetation, by a similar law she softens off with 
the lapse of time the memory of all old wrongs, unless 
efforts are made to defeat her action. There was a time 
when Saxon and Dane in the north of England, and Saxon 
and Norman in the south, had grievances against one 
another. ‘The men who are descended from both races, 
or from all three, have no ground for reviving these 
wrongs, nor have the New Englanders of 1901 any ground 
for holding the English who are living now, responsible 
for what some of their great grandfathers did (and many 
of them, for that matter, did zo¢ /) 
Here is an incident in the battle of Bunker’s Hill that 
has never been published, and that will interest both 
Americans and Englishmen as an archeological curiosity :— 
Two of the regiments that fought in the American War 
were the 88th Connaught Rangers, and the Royal Marines. 
Lieut.-Col. Holland, a retired officer of the latter force, and 
for many years a neighbour of mine, lately mentioned to 
me a curious fact about his Marines. They perpetually 
stirred up quarrels with the men of the 88th; so that 
some years ago the Rangers had to be removed from 
Portsmouth, the head-quarters of the Royal Marines, to 
another district. The bad feeling that existed between 
them arose from two causes. In the first place, the officers 
of the Marines until late years, were ordered to enlist no 
recruits whose antecedents they could not satisfy them- 
selves were satisfactory. The printed instructions to the 
recruiting sergeants were :— 
“You are not to receive anzy strangers or persons from 
