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A daughter or granddaughter of one of the patentees?" "Just so. In the old man's day they held the lands all along this side of the Raritan, nigh up to Baskinridge, but they sold a lot in the forties." "Then perhaps this is the place to bargain about a bit? The land looked rich and warm as I rode along this afternoon." "'T ain't no use tryin' ter buy of the new squire," remarked one man.
So 't is now we must make our time, if we are to be in Morristown by morning." The rider spoke truly, for it was already six o'clock when he reached the cross-roads at Baskinridge. Halting his horse at the guide-post, he drew his sword and struck the crosspiece a blow, to clear it of its burden of snow. "Morristown, eight miles," he read in the dark grayness of approaching day.
We all need to study Christian tact. The boys in the Baskinridge school-house laughed at William L. Dayton's impediment of speech, but that did not hinder him from afterward making court-room and senate-chamber thrill under the spell of his words.
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