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outline of government.&quot; The drawing up and 

 signing of this important document took two days. 

 When accomplished, several of them ranged 

 about the woods near by to see what they con 

 tained. Having wandered farther than they we r e 

 apprised, in their endeavour to return, they say, 

 &quot;We were shrewdly puzzled and lost our way. 

 As we wandered, we came to a tree, where a young 

 sprit was bowed down over a bow, and some 

 acorns strewed underneath. Stephen Hopkins 

 said it had been to catch some deer. So, as we 

 were looking at it, William Bradford being in the 

 rear, when he came looking also upon it, and as 

 he went about, it gave a sudden jerk up and he 

 was immediately caught up by his legs.&quot; William 

 Bradford, Puritan and Mayflower Pilgrim, caught 

 in an Indian snare, and dangling, head-downward, 

 in the air! I wonder whether his companions 

 possessed a grain cf the saving sense of humour? 

 Apparently not. &quot;It was (they continue) a very 

 pretty device, made with a rope of their own 

 making, (of bark or some kind of roots, probably), 

 and having a noose as artfully made as any 

 roper in England can make, and as like ours as 

 can be, which we brought away.&quot; 



Count number two, O white man, even though b r U Two Num &quot; 

 a Pilgrim Father, is found against thee! You 

 were first caught in the Indian s snare and then 

 stole it. Two counts in fact, in one. You first, in 

 the eyes of the Indian, disgraced yourself through 

 your ignorance of woodcraft, and then destroyed 

 his confidence in you by thieving his property. 



