Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. a Tale of the Colony

Download or read book Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. a Tale of the Colony written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]in-law purchased having been, as he says, of the name of Dibblee. He has got half-a-dozen of the more sentimental part of our society to call the neck Dibbleton; but the attempt is not likely to succeed in the long run, as we are not a people much given to altering the language, any more than the customs of our ancestors. Besides, my Dutch ancestors did not purchase from any Dibblee, no such family ever owning the place, that being a bold assumption of the Yankee to make out his case the more readily. Satanstoe, as it is little more than a good farm in extent, so it is little more than a particularly good farm in cultivation and embellishment. [...]".