Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of Washington
While he was still a baby, his fat-her moved to another plantation near F redericksburg. The new home overlooked the Rappaha-nnoe'k, about which Washington played as a child. We can imagine how eagerly, with the other boys of his age, he watched the English ships creep up the river after their cargoes of tobacco. There were no regular mails in those days, and one heard but seldom from the outside world. The arrival of the ships was a great event, for they brought with them wonderful tales of cities and men.
Each plantation was a little village in itself, with the pl-anter's house for a center. Beyond were the negro cabins and vast fields of tobacco.
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