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The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn.

Today, a classic short story from Nathaniel Hawthorne, titled My Kinsman, Major Molano.

It was written in 1831 and first published in 1832.

It's a very, very powerful story about a young man, Robin, who arrives in Boston to find his kinsman, Major Molanoe who has told him he'll help him get a start in life

Robin is a young colonial boy Major Molanoe is a British officer the people that Robin speaks with while he tries to find his kinsman in Boston react with hostility when he asks where he can find the major.

Eventually, the story has a few different themes, one being coming of age, the other being,

respect for your elders, but only when it's warranted.

The story was extremely popular in its time.

The story was included in the 1852 edition of the Snow Image and other twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

And now, our story.

After the kings of Great Britain had assumed the right of appointing the colonial governors,

the measures of the latter seldom met with the ready and generous approbation which had been

paid to those of their predecessors under the original charters.

The people looked with most jealous scrutiny to the exercise of power which did not emanate

from themselves, and they usually rewarded their rulers with slender

gratitude for the compliances by which, in softening their instructions from beyond the sea,

they had incurred the reprehension of those who gave them.

The Annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us that of six governors in the space of about

40 years from the surrender of the old charter under James II, two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection.

A third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball.

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