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He raised his weapon and was upon the point of shooting into their midst when Wilson knocked up his hand and sent the revolver spinning across the deck. But Danbury scarcely looked around to see who had foiled him. He rushed headlong into the group as though he were the center of a football team. He struck right and left with his naked fists and finally by chance fell upon Splinter.
'I saw all my friends was goin', he said, 'an' th'd be nobody left in the country but me. "I reckon I can bite them ca'tridges off with my eye-teeth, if I really want to do it," I says, an' I was on the train an' half-way to Danbury before I recollected that Mrs. Todd had told me to bring home a dime's wuth o' coffee an' a pound o' sugar.
Danbury, July the 21st, 1780. As I find an express going from Hartford to General Greene, I send this letter to him that you might hear something further about the recruits of Connecticut. From the Colonel who under Gen.
He had received information that the Americans had collected a large quantity of stores in the town of Danbury and in other places on the borders of Connecticut.
The trouble culminated in Dr. Fallon's impressing the wagons of Wing, Kelly and "the widow Irish," to take fourteen men to Danbury and Fishkill to save their lives. The former impress was not resisted; but the soldiers who took the Irish team had to battle with a mob, headed by Abraham Wing and Benjamin Akin, who used the convalescent soldiers roughly, but could not prevent the seizure.
In order to avoid immediate suspicion, they were forced to steady the horses down to something like a walk. To Danbury it seemed as though they had stopped stock-still. He was not a good man in such a position as this; he was all for dashing action. He could hardly sit still. They received many side glances from the excited groups, but they passed merely as a carriage full of nervous foreigners.
"What have you there?" shouted his comrade. Then someone started the cry: "The Queen! It may be the Queen!" There was a rush towards the carriage. Danbury fired through the bottom a signal to the driver to dash for it. The horses sprang but were brought back upon their haunches. Beatrice spoke to Danbury. "Wait. Not yet," she pleaded as he raised his weapon.
Now, it happens that just before Christmas, I carefully went through all the closets of the house, sorted out and hunted up all the good, half-worn clothing that we could spare, and sent it to the Danbury Hospital for distribution among their poor families; so I simply had nothing of value to add to the barrels intended for the frontier ministers " "Why didn't you buy something?"
"Three cheers fer Cap'n Stubbs," shouted someone. And as Stubbs bashfully beat a hasty retreat, the cheers rang lustily in his ears. But he reported to Danbury with his face beaming. "Now," he said, "ye've gut some men worth something. They'll be fightin' fer themselves fightin' to keep outern jail. Mutiny has its uses."
Monday morning, everything was got ready for me to set out at twelve o'clock, when I received a note from the Doctor, desiring I would tarry a little longer. I have now returned to my old lodgings at Danbury, where the Doctor thinks of building a hospital. He joins me in duty and love. "Your affectionate daughter, Much of Dr.
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