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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Sure, I know how it is. I was saying to a fellow just the other day, 'Why, gosh all fish-hooks! I was saying, 'it seems like it's harder to keep in touch with a fellow here in New York than if he lived in Chicago time you go from the Bronx to Flatbush or Weehawken, it's time to turn round again and go home! Well, Hunt's married you know, to that same girl that was with us at lunch that day and he's got a nice little house in Secaucus.
In Flatbush, which is now a part of Brooklyn, was a family that spoke the Dutch language, while they were true Americans in feeling. When the British landed on Long Island, they got ready to leave the town. The horses were hitched to the wagon, and such things as were thought most valuable were put in. The first thing they put into the wagon was the great Dutch Bible with heavy brass clasps.
Several spring wagons passed him, equipped with plain wooden chairs, and labelled "Flatbush" or "Prospect Park. Fare, Ten Cents." He noticed cold and even gloomy faces. Labour was having its little war. When he came near the office in question, he saw a few men standing about, and some policemen. On the far corners were other men whom he took to be strikers watching.
The columns marching directly from Flatbush must, on every reasonable calculation, have been in possession of the plain in the rear of the detachment posted on the road from Jamaica, so as to intercept its retreat to the camp. So great is the advantage of those who attack, in being able to choose the point against which to direct their grand effort.
General Washington had passed the day at Brooklyn, making arrangements for the approaching action; and, at night, had returned to New York. The Hessians under General De Heister composed the centre of the British army at Flatbush; Major General Grant commanded the left wing which extended to the coast, and the greater part of the British forces under General Clinton.
Can't you see that a thing like this has gotta be fixed different from a marriage between between a ribbon-counter clerk and the girl who takes the money at a twenty-five-cent hash restaurant in Flatbush? This is a royal alliance. Do you suppose that when a European princess is introduced to the prince she's going to marry, they let her say: 'Nothing doing. I don't like the shape of his nose'?"
"I thought yer said thar wa'n't no bad Injuns eround yere, Sol Flatbush. What d'yer make o' that?" Sol Flatbush got a little pale. "Thar ain't none," he said. "All ther Injuns on the reservation is peaceable. They knows they couldn't do no monkey business with all them sojers at Fort Sill."
Save for minor adventures, such as getting on the wrong road once or twice, and meeting a herd of cattle, which did them no harm, nothing of moment occurred to the girls on their trip toward Flatbush. They had stopped for lunch in the little village of Mooretown, eating at the roadside, under some great oak trees, and making chocolate instead of tea for a change.
From there to Broxton, where Grace's married sister will put us up, and then, in turn to Simpson's Corners that's my uncle, you know to Flatbush, where Grace's mother's niece has kindly consented to receive us; on to Hightown, that's Mollie's aunt's place; to Cameron that's where we'll go to the camp that Mr. Ford's half-brother runs."
"That box," she said, "was shipped to me from Flatbush, and was claimed in my name in the name of Genevieve Pringle at the freight depot at Newark, New Jersey, by this lady here. Deny it if you can!" "I do deny it, Miss Pringle," said Lady Agatha, accompanying her words with a winsome smile.
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