The Child Wife

Oh, Coddington, and ye Assistants of the General Court! what craze possessed you to change this fair title of the red aboriginal for the petty appellation of "Rhodes?" Out upon your taste-your classic affectation! Out upon your ignorance-to mistake the "Roodt" of the old Dutch navigator for that name appertaining to the country of the Colossus! In the title bestowed by Block there was at least appropriateness-even something of poetry. Sailing around Sachuest Point, he beheld the grand woods, red in the golden sun-glow of autumn. Flashed upon his delighted eyes the crimson masses of tree foliage, and the festoonery of scarlet creepers. Before his face were bright ochreous rocks cropping out from the cliff. Down in his log-book went the "Red Island!"