: Soldier Rigdale: How He Sailed in the Mayflower and How He Served Miles Standish by Dix Beulah Marie Birch Reginald Bathurst Illustrator - Historical fiction; Sea stories; Massachusetts History Colonial period ca. 1600-1775 Fiction; Standish Myles 1584?-16

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Opposite Page "With his arm up to shut out the glare of the lanterns" 14

"Dolly plaited a fold of her apron between her fingers" 66

"'Do you like to do it, Captain Standish?'" 102

"Saw the two young men close in combat" 184

"'Oh, Miles, 'tis the savages come for us!'" 214

"Miles made out the figures of the men in the shallop" 254

"The breath came gripingly in his throat" 308

SOLDIER RIGDALE

PLAYING WITH POWDER

How those yards seesawed up and down with the rolling of the ship, and the mastheads, they dipped too, quite as if they might pitch down upon a body! Miles Rigdale, standing with legs craftily planted and head thrown well back, stared and stared at their measured movement till, dizzy with the feeling that the great spars were tottering loose, he was glad to straighten his aching neck once more.

"Did you see a goose, all roasted, flying for your mouth?" Francis Billington called from the waist of the ship, where he perched jauntily upon the bulwark.

Sauntering from his place near the companion way, Miles halted beside the speaker; not that he had a great liking for Francis Billington, but he was a sociable lad, who must talk to some one, and, as the bleak air had driven the women and children into the great cabin, while the men were absent,--the leaders conferring in the roundhouse and the lesser men seeking firewood on shore,--he could for the moment find no comrade save young Billington.

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