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Updated: May 17, 2025
Now every passing school-boy helped himself to the wan, withered, and scanty fruit; and nobody had thought it worth while to mend the dilapidated fences which might have helped to shut them out. Even Mrs. White, with all her indifference to externals, rebelled at first at the idea of going to live in the old Jacobs house. "I'll never go there, Stephen," she said petulantly.
So, on they go; and old George Jacobs has stumbled, by reason of his infirmity; but Goodman Proctor and his wife lean on one another, and walk at a reasonably steady pace, considering their age. Mr. Burroughs seems to administer counsel to Martha Carrier, whose face and mien, methinks, are milder and humbler than they were.
Adams having hard work, occasionally, with his lame leg. But wherever they passed, no matter how rough and high the country, they encountered miners like themselves, digging and washing and searching, in camp or on the march. But not a word more, of the Jacobs party, or of the Golden West mine. Mr. Grigsby appeared to be looking for certain landmarks, ahead.
There was a hut bearing a sign in English: "Crescent Hotel"; but one look into it and at its mob of panting customers decided Charley and his father to eat in their canoe. "Good! There's Francisco!" exclaimed Mr. Adams, as they returned. "Yes; and there's that Jacobs again!" cried Charley. "He's after our canoe!" "He won't get it," said his father. "We've paid for it, and we keep it."
D, to-wit: Jeremiah Peters, John Peters, Hulett Jacobs, George Garlow, and there are others who enlisted afterwards at different times during the war, to wit: Twelfth N. Y. Vol's, Cav., Co. M. Ozias Chew, John Pempleton, Charles Pempleton, Nichodemus Thompssn. Bat. K, 1st N. Y. Light Art. Clinton Mt. Pleasant, 3Oth, transferred to 31st N. J. Vol's. Inv. colored brigade.
Jean saw bodies, evidently of dead men, lifted into the wagon, to be hauled away toward the village. Seven mounted men, leading four riderless horses, rode out into the valley and followed the wagon. "Dad, they've gone," declared Jean. "We had the best of this fight.... If only Guy an' Jacobs had listened!" The old man nodded moodily. He had aged considerably during these two trying days.
May he share your hopes? He has nerves of steel, and yet I know that he has hardly slept since this terrible event. Jacobs, will you ask the Prime Minister to come up? As to you, dear, I fear that this is a matter of politics. We will join you in a few minutes in the dining-room."
There is old George Jacobs, known hereabouts, these sixty years, as a man whom we thought upright in all his way of life, quiet, blameless, a good husband before his pious wife was summoned from the evil to come, and a good father to the children whom she left him.
Our march was slow and tedious, and instead of reaching the river at noon as was expected, and as General Meade's orders contemplated, the head of the Third corps only reached the river at Jacobs' Ford long after dark, and here again a delay was occasioned by a mistake of the engineers, who had not brought a sufficient number of boats to this point to complete the pontoon bridge; a part of the bridge had therefore to be extemporized out of poles.
"Do I understand you won't sell lots off that ranch of yours to start a new town, and you won't run for the legislature when you're dead sure to be elected. May I ask how you propose to put in the fall after wheat harvest?" Jacobs asked, with a twinkle in his black eyes.
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