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The French settle for leftovers
Chapter 15
When the hFrench finally figured out how to build a ship that could sail across the Atlantic, imost of the best land had already been taken,
2And so they made do with the best leftovers they could find,
3Including most of jCanada,
4kWhich was too cold and awful to have a lot of gold-mining Indians in it,
5And Haiti,
6lWhich was too hot and awful to have any gold-mining Indians in it,
7And the middle part of North America,
8mWhich had too many angry Indians in it that didn’t even know what gold was,
9And a little nGuiana that sat right next to Holland’s and was about as useful.
10Disappointed in their new world discoveries, the French eventually discovered large chunks of Africa,
11oThat were too hot and awful for anyone to want them but the French.
12But, being from France, the French people refused to give up their quest to be a pChosen Nation, and kept on trying to make history for many many years,
13qUntil a lot of other nations finally made them stop.
14Anyway,
15The French, being from France, decided to rstick it out and do what they could to make history in the new world,
16In strange French ways,
17For as long as possible,
18And so they did.
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