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Yell, or down you go!" he opened his mouth and yelled so they heard it in Kilbourn City: "Hurrah for Garfield! Now lemme go!" Though endowed with more than ordinary eloquence, no remarks that he had ever made before brought the applause that this did.
Kilbourn, of Chesterfield; but the items were really few and the total amount of liquor was not great, thirty-eight mugs of flip at twelve dollars per mug; eleven gills of rum bitters at six dollars per gill, and two mugs of sling at twenty-four dollars per mug.
"We had been," commenced Kilbourn, in whose own language the story shall be given, "scouting through the country that lay about Fort Stephenson, when early one morning one of our number came in with the intelligence that the Fort was besieged by a combined force of British and Indians.
This violation of a flag of truce, the wanton murder of its bearers, and the attack upon a mere remnant of Black Hawk's band when sueing for peace, precipitated a war that should have been avoided. Elijah Kilbourn, one of the scouts connected with Stillman's command. Mr.
An exposure too common to attract notice, and a fine of six and eightpence was held sufficient penalty for a mortal sin. Even this, however, was a severe sentence compared with the sentence passed upon another priest who confessed to incest with the prioress of Kilbourn.
Yell, or down you go!" he opened his mouth and yelled so they heard it in Kilbourn City: "Hurrah for Garfield! Now lemme go!" Though endowed with more than ordinary eloquence, no remarks that he had ever made before brought the applause that this did.
Elijah Kilbourn, the subject of the great chieftain's kindness, and to whom we are indebted for the present sketch, was a native of Pennsylvania.
When but three or four years old he was sent to the Widow Kilbourn's school, where he said his letters twice a day, and passed the rest of his time in hemming a brown towel or a checked apron. It was not expected that he would learn very much from Marm Kilbourn, but the school kept him out of the way of the "home folks" for the greater part of the day.
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