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感恩节含义 ”Let us go away from this country,” said the unhappy Englishmen to each other; and so they left their homes, and went far off to a country called Holland. It was about this time that they began to call 　　themselves “Pilgrims.” Pilgrims, you know, are people who are always traveling to find something they love, or to find a land where they can be happier; and these English men and women were journeying, they said, “from place to place, toward heaven, their dearest country.” In Holland, the Pilgrims were quiet and happy for a while, but they were very poor; and when the children began to grow up, they were not like English children, but talked Dutch, like the little ones of 　　Holland, and some grew naughty and did not want to go to church any more. 　　”This will never do,” said the Pilgrim fathers and mothers; so after much talking and thinking and writing they made up their minds to come here to America. They hired two vessels, called the Mayflower and the Speedwell, to take them across the sea; but the Speedwell was not a strong ship, and the captain had to take her home again before she had gone very far. 　　The Mayflower went back, too. Part of the Speedwells passengers were given to her, and then she started alone across the great ocean. There were one hundred people on board - mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters and little children. They were very crowded; it 　　was cold and uncomfortable; the sea was rough, and pitched the Mayflower about, and they were two months sailing over the water. The children cried many times on the journey, and wished they had never come on the tiresome ship that rocked them so hard, and would not let them keep still a minute. 　　But they had one pretty plaything to amuse them, for in the middle of the great ocean a Pilgrim baby was born, and they called him 　　”Oceanus,” for his birthplace. When the children grew so tired that they were cross and fretful, Oceanus mother let them come and play with him, and that always brought