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For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about. And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
Squire Moses said your father's furniture was mortgaged, and that would have to be sold too. The plan of the old hunks is to get the hotel, and put Ethan into it as landlord. If he can't do it this summer, he means to do it as soon as he can. He thought if he got the house, he could buy the furniture, and set Ethan up by the middle of July, or the first of August."
"Does she move?" asked Ethan, through the speaking-tube which communicated with the engine-room. "No, she sticks fast," replied Lawry. "Give her a little more of it." The wheels of the steamer turned rapidly for a moment, and the Woodville slid off the ground into deep water. "Hurrah!" shouted Lawry, as he rang the bell to stop her. "She's all right now," he added, through the tube.
Ben obeyed; he had felt that the game was up the moment he saw Ethan at his post, and he had not the courage to draw his pistol upon one who had shot two Indians in one day. "Sit down there," continued Ethan, pointing to the bench in the engine-room, and the culprit took his seat with fear and trembling.
Though but last night dragged out of a ship's hold, like a smutty tierce; and this morning out of your littered barracks here, like a murderer; for all that, you may well stare at Ethan Ticonderoga Allen, the unconquered soldier, by ! You Turks never saw a Christian before. Stare on! Hurrah! Hurrah!
"Joe," said he to his little son, "scamper down to the tavern in the village, and tell the jolly fellows there that Ethan Brand has come back, and that he has found the Unpardonable Sin!" The boy darted away on his errand, to which Ethan Brand made no objection, nor seemed hardly to notice it. He sat on a log of wood, looking steadfastly at the iron door of the kiln.
"That's the way they take everything," declared Faith, renewing her promise to herself to try in some way to let Ethan Allen know how easy it would be to drive the English from Ticonderoga. "I am glad you did not venture on the ice," Aunt Prissy said when Donald and Faith told their story. "The English become less friendly every day.
Young Jason was hardened to suffering and death. He had not realized that to the sickness and death of one's own, nothing can harden us. He stood breathing hard while his mother stooped over the bed. "Ethan," she said softly, "our boy is here." Brother Wilkins opened his eyes and smiled faintly. He tried to say something and Jason sprang to take his hand. "Oh, he wants to speak to you and can't.
The "Green Mountain boys," headed by Ethan Allen, had succeeded in setting up an independent State, with a popular innkeeper as governor, upon land claimed by New York. Against these infringements upon the integrity of the States, the Congress could do nothing more than draw up resolutions expressing "the highest disapprobation" of those who participated.
"We can easily pump her out ourselves," said Ethan. "You needn't say a word, Ethan," added Fanny Jane. "I suppose we shall have to submit," replied Lawry, laughing. "We can't oppose the ladies." "Just as you say, Lawry," said Ethan. "You shall have the men to-morrow, boys. Now you must go to bed, and not think of the steamer till morning," continued Mr. Sherwood.
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