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Why, sir," turning to my brother "he could fly or kick football with the rabbits. Well, this is raal stuff!" "Now, Lachlin," said my brother, "give us an account of the attack you made on Vesey Vengeance's house, at the Long Ridge, when all his party were chased out of the town."
"I'm just glad you came in, Lachlin," said my brother, "I didn't think of you; take a chair here, and never heed the wake to-night, but sit down and tell us about the attack on Vesey Vengeance, long ago. I'll get you a tumbler of punch; and, instead of going to the wake to night, I will allow you to go to the funeral to-morrow."
"Ah, sir," said Lachlin, "you know whenever the punch is consarned, I'm aisily persuaded; but not making little of your tumbler, sir," said the shrewd fellow, "I would get two or three of them if I went to the wake." "Well, sit down," said my brother, handing him one, "and we won't permit you to get thirsty while you're talking, at all events."
It is a family distinguished for chivalry as well in Europe as in Georgia. At the commencement of the Revolution they at once sided with the colonists. Lachlin and John McIntosh became distinguished as leaders in that protracted and doubtful conflict, meeting in battle their kinsman in high command in the British army.
His comments told of the imaginative power born in his Celtic blood: "Bill, let's play you are the Red Dermid smiting the bullhide bearing Lachlin," he would shout, and at once the brightness of his mental picture and his familiarity with the nursery tales of Erin that were current even in the woods created a wonder-world about him. Then his Ulster mind would speak.
Some of them stationed themselves in the out-houses, some behind the garden edge, and others in the dwelling-house." When my brother had got thus far in his narrative, a tap came to the parlor-door, and immediately a stout-looking man, having the appearance of a laborer, entered the room. "Well, Lachlin," said my brother, "what's the matter?"
Lachlin McIntosh was the commander of the first regiment raised in Georgia to aid in the Revolution. A duel was the consequence, in which Gwinnett was killed. Tradition says this difficulty grew out of the suspicions of McIntosh as to the fidelity of Gwinnett to the American cause.
"Why, thin, sir, I ought to be ashamed to mintion it; but you see, gintleman, there was no getting over being connected wid them; but I hope your brother's safe, sir!" "Oh, perfectly safe, Lachlin; you may rest assured he'll never mention it." "Well, sir," said Lachlin, addressing himself to me, "Vesey Vengeance was ."
"In troth, you haven't your heart in the likes of it," said Lachlin. "Gintlemen, your healths your health, sir, and we're happy to see you wanst more. Why, thin, I remember you, sir, when you were a gorsoon, passing to school wid your satchel on your back; but, I'll be bound you're by no means as soople now as you were thin.
He was carried home senseless." "Well, Lachlin," said my brother, "if you didn't see it, I did. I happened to be looking out of John Carson's upper window for it wasn't altogether safe to contemplate it within reach of the missiles. It was certainly a dreadful and barbarous sight.
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