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stone upon Burying Hill might be amended before another summer brings its thousands of True Believers to the Mecca of New England, and the authorities have promised that this shall be done.
Doubtless we who are proud to claim descent from John Howland should be glad to claim Carver as the father of his wife, but we may be sure that the man who even among the Pilgrims bore a reputation for probity and uprightness, would be the last to desire fictitious honors, or a deceitful record.
JANE G. AUSTIN.
Plymouth, October, 1892.
