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ging the furrows. He helped the maid and the mistress with their chores. It was almost dinnertime, and Jim was fe Jing hungry indeed.
Farmer Bob returned. “While you’re waiting for dinner, Jim, will you please run into the village and fetch the table that the carpenter has made
for me?”
“Happily," said Jim, and he skipped down tiie long, dusty road. He arrived at the carpenter’s place and picked up
rememoereu raiinci uuu => aunu.. He hitched the horse to the wagon and drove to the village. He bought a pound of butter and placed it in the wagon. Then he drove back home, under the hot afternoon sun.
"What's this?” said Fanner Bob when he saw the butter melted in the wagon. “Son, don’t you know that you don’t need a wagon for butter? That’s what a pocket is for.”
“Indeed it must be,” said Jim, smil-
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday
3 p.m.: Compagnies Franches de la Marine from Fort Toulouse, Ala., join the marines and guides at Fort Maurepas to encamp; also
women and children.
3:30 p.m.: Raising the colors; musket volley fire; French arms
drill.
4:45 p.m.: Musket volley fire; lower the colors.
7:30 p.m.: Slide show presentation of French colonial archaeology by state historical archaeologist Jack Elliott.
10 p.m.: Closing of gate to guests.
Saturday
All day: Camp-fort life
10 a.m.: Gates open; Raising of the colors; inspection of arms, marching drill, musket volley fire.
11:30: Musket volley fire.
1	p.m.: Break for lunch.
2	p.m.: Marching drill; musket volley fire.
3:30 p.m.: Musket volley fire.
4:45 p.m.: Musket volley fire; lowering of the colors.
7 p.m.: Address on early state history by Elbert Hilliard, director,
state Department of Archives & History.
10 p.m.: Closing of gates to guests.
Sunday
All day: Camp-fort life.
10 a.m.: Gates open; Raising of the colors; inspection of arms, marching drill, musket volley fire.
11:30 a.m.: Musket volley fire.
12 p.m.: Alabama re-enactors leave, but Coast re-enactors
continue fort life.
1	p.m.: Break for lunch.
2	p.m.: Marching drill; musket volley fire.
3:30 p.m.: Musket volley fire.
4:45 p.m.: Musket volley fire; lowering of the colors.
5 p.m.: Gates close.
And when Fanner Bob saw how things were, he said, “Son, I believe if you saw a staircase before you, you’d look for a rope to slide down. Anyway, one day you’ll learn good sense. Just remember, when you run to fetch a thing, you must remember what the thing is like.”
A dog’s best friend
Now Jim set to work again. He
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here, at Fort Maurepas, that European civilization was introduced in the lower Mississippi Valley, ” says Gloria Moran, the society’s acting
commandant “We hope to generate public interest to persuade our Mississippi legislators to fund the fort’s completion, the outfitting and staffing for educational, recreational and tourism purposes.”
Construction of the replica fort was started in 1980 by the state, but after investing $500,000, the state pulled out, claiming a money shortage.
From the beginning, controversy has centered over the fort’s location, which many historians and archaeologists believe was north of the Ocean Springs bridge instead of the replica's southern beachfront site.
Moran, however, believes the location should be no problem, citing other successful replica forts that are not on the original site. Fort St. Jean the Baptiste in Louisiana and Fort Caroline in Florida are among them.
Mississippi deeded the incomplete fort to the city of Ocean Springs in 1991, and the Fort Maurepas Society was formed to raise completion money.
Attempts so far have failed, but with the approaching 300th anniversary, members hope to win legislative favor and funding grants.
One of the problems, Moran believes, has been a lack of awareness
But he reached into his pocket and found a rope. “Aha,” he said to himself, and he tied the rope to the beef. Then he began to walk back home, singing and whistling, pulling the beef behind him.
When the neighbor’s big shaggy dog looked up and saw the treat, he began to run after Jim. Then another neighbor’s sad-eyed hound saw it, and he ran too. Then a small, yippy terrier
of the significance of the fort, compounded by the state’s emphasis on Civil War and antebellum history.
“If we were to put white columns, a bale of cotton and hoop skirts in front of the fort, it would have been funded yesterday,” Moran says.
“The state historically funds antebellum projects. So it's up to the people of every community on the Coast to convince our legislators and other politicians that we are sitting on a history gold mine.”
About the story
Adapted from “Bmonaides and His Aunt,” a Southe U.S. tale, and Charles J. FingerVHow Pat Got Good Sense,’’ in Siy Parade magazine, 1940.
M “Tell Me a Story'atur0s a time-honored classic or ora* tele each week. Amy Friedman wriar,d edits the stories syndicated by Un^ Press Syndicate.
—\s* Qiitou pauuumsn into some green or brown paint and paint a stem and a leaf onto your apple print Note: If using fabric paints on fabric, heat-set the prints with an iron after the paint has dried. An adult must do this.
■	It you’d like to share your comments or ideas for family projects, write to Donna Erickson, P.O. Box 16188, Minneapolis, MN 55416.
historians, wK111 ^ess in correct period clothij11^ *ake on the persona of from the French Colonial p€J Th® music, the ac-cents, the f- ^ everyday tasks will be aurc-
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On Ap’1699> Iberville recorded in his * !°g thnt he had ordered
What is there
The 8-foot outer walls of the replica, built from original plans, cover a half-acre. A two-story bastion stands on the southeast comer, but other buildings — chapel, lodging, bakery and storeroom — were never built.
Across from the fort, Iberville lands every April in a pageant staged by the 1699 Historical Committee. As they have since 1939, Indians and
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Mobile bring thousands of visitors.
“Fort Maurepas is an important piece of the Coast’s historical puzzle, and for many years an ignored piece, ” says historian Val Husley, curator of Biloxi museums and a French Colonial • re-enactoi.
“When a country, such as France,
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“rin clearing the land and do « eptab,K* a beachhead to sur- ■ msmenj[for ^ fort	round themselves with military pro-
t0 Ary 1699, he was explor- tec*on; Maurepas was that im-'nnwh the Mississippi Coast,	beachhead	for	the	north-
T-i—< -	•	•	central	Gulf	as	they continued to
explore	for	the	Mississippi River,
knowing that the Spanish and English were nearby.
“The	location	of the replica fort
should	not	be	a problem. You
shouldn’t put it on the exact site because you’d destroy it archaeologically.”
The original fort was short-lived. In 1702, the Fr^ch moved the capitol to
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first 1?°°.^Poland, then head-■ ^mainland, where he first step,'1 Present-day Biloxi.
It’s meetings with the Indians18 CTew’s explorations laid th^work for the modem Coast cit e picked Ocean Springs, wv prst called Biloxi after a ^ndians, for his fort because of j.egic location and bluffs, eping with its contention that
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politicians and community leaders s other communities Monw	Spnn«s the Coast „
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eyebrows of some dyed-in-the- wool art Maurepas is for eyeryone, historians who believe in authenticity,wry Coast city,” says Moran, while others contend the pagean-nis should be a regionwide effort brings Ocean Springs much-deserveiuse from Fort Maurepas, either publicity.	;ctly	or	indirectly,	other	forts	were
“The 1699 Committee has done ablished in Louisiana and Alabama, excellent job in keeping alive the ,c^irse’^ beginnings of Mo-that d’Iberville landed here in 16^“l^ew 0r|fans‘, says Moran. “That is important Mississippi is the only one of the
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The original Maurepas was accidentally burned and later the rest was tom down so invading countries could not take advantage of it.
“Why, some might wonder, has ■ Fort Maurepas’ importance been ig- - j nored?” Moran asks.	.
“Maybe it’s because the victor C
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