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"Out and charge!" the Major shouted. "Forward, Captain Batts!" he cried at the foot of the stairs, and the men came leaping down. The cry was taken up, and from every building about the square the men were pouring. Mayo had no time to rally his force; indeed, it was beyond his power, for his men were panic-smitten. Into the fields and toward the woods they ran for their lives. It was now a chase.
I ne'er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca't, but a sour fit o' the batts wi' sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi' some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it."
'That girl will do anything for money, he said; 'she's stupid, but she's wise enough to know her own interest, and she'll hold her tongue. So I trusted Sarah Batts, and I had to pay her pretty stiffly to keep the secret; but she was a rare one to do the work, and she went about it as quiet as a mouse. Not even mother Tadman ever suspected her."
They old Peter Halsey and old Joe Batts were more considered and more comfortable than they would have been before the war. And it was the consideration more even than the comfort that warmed their hearts. The evening grew hotter, and the way to the village seemed long.
"Thomas," said his mother, "you will find nothing of the sort; but I'll tell you what you may expect from the right sort of a wife contempt for a coarse, low-bred fellow, should you insist upon holding him as your closest companion." "Mother," Louise spoke up, "I think you are too severe. Mr. Batts is hemmed in with faults, but he has many good points.
Toward the office slowly strode old Gideon Batts, fanning himself with his white slouch hat. He was short, fat, and bald; he was bowlegged with a comical squat; his eyes stuck out like the eyes of a swamp frog; his nose was enormous, shapeless, and red. To the Major's family he traced the dimmest line of kinship.
Captain Batts, what are you trying to do there?" "Thought I'd take a nap," old Gid answered. "You can wake me up when the fight begins don't want to miss it." "If you go to sleep I will court-martial you, sir. Superintend the cutting of the loop-holes." "All right, don't believe I'm very sleepy anyway;" and as he shuffled away the Englishman turned to the Major and asked: "And is he game, sir?"
"It will take about eight men, four on a side all strong young fellows," said Taylor. "You old men stand back. Major, order Captain Batts to let go the log." "Captain Batts, turn loose," the Major commanded. "You are too old for such work." With a sigh old Gid stepped back, and sadly he looked upon the young men as they took their places.
The fear of error is the bane of inquiry." Charles did not get further than these, but others followed of a similar character. He returned the pamphlet to Mr. Batts. "I see enough," he said, "of the opinions of the Truth Society to admire their ingenuity and originality, but, excuse me, not their good sense. It is impossible I should subscribe to what is so plainly opposed to Christianity." Mr.
While serving on board the Northumberland, he was engaged in the capture of Newfoundland, and was afterwards employed, at different periods, in surveying its coast. At the end of 1762, returning to England, he married Miss Elizabeth Batts, a young lady of respectable family. By her he had six children, three of whom died in their infancy.
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