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In the ranks he had been regarded with a kind of awe as a most redoubtable man of mysterious and uncanny gifts since he and Jack had arrived in the Highlands fresh from their adventure of "shifting the skeer" as Solomon was wont to put it whereupon, with no great delay, the rash Colonel Burley had his Binkussing.
"The Binkussing of Burley" a phrase which traveled far beyond the limits of Putnam's camp and the notice of warning which followed was not without its effect on the propaganda of Gates and his friends. Next day Jack and Solomon set out with a force of twelve hundred men for Washington's camp at White Marsh near Philadelphia. There Jack found a letter from Margaret.
Ye won't find any o' the ol' boys o' Washington squealin' erbout pay. We're lookin' fer brothers an' not pigs. Git down on yer knees with me, every one o' ye, while the Chaplain asks God A'mighty to take us all into His army." The words of Solomon put the new men in better spirit and there was little complaining after that. They called that speech "The Binkussing of the Recruits."
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