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You can get twenty dollars out of it easy, and still have five bottles of the best family bitter that ever went into a bottle." It was the thought of this opportunity to get a buffalo-skin coat that consoled Uncle Ethan as he saw the hideous black letters appearing under the agent's lazy brush. It was the hot side of the barn, and painting was no light work.
Fortunately he did not see Baldy until the latter cautiously hailed him, otherwise he would have fled before ascertaining his identity; but the moment he recognized his voice he hastened toward him, no less surprised than pleased at meeting him so unexpectedly. 'Where are Mickey and Ethan? he inquired, as he leaped alongside of him. 'In the cave. 'How is it you are here?
'Then you are going towards Vermont? said the master of the house, as he helped to take a light knapsack off the young man's shoulders. 'Yes; to Burlington, and far enough beyond, replied he. 'I meant to have been at Ethan Crawford's tonight; but a pedestrian lingers along such a road as this.
Well and so you have found the Unpardonable Sin?" "Even so!" said the stranger, calmly. "If the 'question is a fair one." proceeded Bartrarn, "where might it be?" Ethan Brand laid his finger on his own heart. "Here!" replied he.
The scowling turnkey was thereupon summoned, and the writer was conducted through one dark passage and another, secured by bolts and bars enough to have ensured the safe keeping of Baron Trenck, or a second Ethan Allen.
"You are a regular Achilles; there is nothing heroic for the rest of us to do." "Nonsense nonsense, Seth!" cried Ethan Allen, yet unable to hide his delight at the outcome of the attack. "There is glory enough for every officer and every man Jack in the ranks. There is yet Crown Point to capture and you, Major, shall command that expedition.
Ethan Allen at once was appointed General of the Vermont State Militia, and although he did not again join the American army, his natural gifts of diplomacy were of inestimable service to the country, and the number of men he could summon at a moment's notice to his command, served to hold in check any attempted raids of the enemy through Canada.
Mis' Doudney says it's jest scandalous the way things is managed on them cars. I'm goin' on the old-fashioned cars, where they ain't no half-dressed men runain' around." "But you needn't be afraid of them, Mother; at your age-" "There! you needn't throw my age an' homeliness into my face, Ethan Ripley.
Ethan Allen at once stepped forward, a patriot, and volunteered with his Green Mountain Boys to serve in the popular cause. He was well fitted for the enterprise in question, by his experience as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers.
I have now a faded letter from Ethan Allen, grim old warrior, in which he calls my father "the best swordsman that ever straddled a horse." He was a "gallous chap" in his youth, so said my grandmother, with a great love of good clothes and gunpowder.
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