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Updated: June 6, 2025
The effective mounted force of my two divisions was therefore much diminished, they mustering only about six thousand officers and men when concentrated on June 6 at New Castle ferry. Here they were provided with three days' rations, intended to last five days, and with two days' grain for the horses.
But I had some difficulty in mustering another crew from the steamer, and was obliged to leave my friend Capt. Scott, with only the idlers, rather critically situated.
Israel Putnam, working on his farm in Brooklyn, Connecticut, received the news the morning after the fight at Concord. He left his work at once, and, mounting a horse, started out to rouse the militia, who, upon mustering, chose him leader. As his idea of a leader was one who went in front, he set out at once for Boston, ordering them to follow.
But the women when they saw me shrieked and ran away in a fright never having seen a white man, and thinking I was a spirit. Then the King and his army went to the other side of the island, and carried me with them and our dog, and there he began mustering together a greater army, taking more men out of every town he visited.
Mustering up all his courage, the adventurer strode determinedly into the adjoining room. The first flash of his hand-lamp discovered to him sickening verification of his most dreadful apprehensions. Now he saw why his dressing-gown had been requisitioned to protect a butcher's clothing.
The better to attend to the profitable duties of their calling, they are exempted from all ship's duty except that of standing night-watches at sea, mustering at quarters, and coming on deck when all hands are called. They are rated as able seamen or ordinary seamen, and receive their wages as such; but in addition to this, they are liberally recompensed for their professional services.
It ceased, and in the silence she thought she heard her stretched nerves cracking one by one. Soon very soon she would have to go down to him and fight the final battle for her freedom. But she would wait till the very last minute. She would spend the whole of the brief time accorded to her in mustering all her strength. He had swept her pride utterly out of her reach.
One day was spent in mustering sheep, an employment not at all to Norah's taste. She was frankly glad that Billabong devoted most of its energies to cattle, and only put up with the sheep work because, since Daddy was there, it never occurred to her to do anything else but go.
The servant girls were running about, mustering the various crews, whose dinners were spread, each in a separate apartment; and who were collectively known by the names of their ships. "Where are the Arethusas? Here's their beef been smoking this half-hour." "Fly, Betty, my dear, here come the Splendids." "Run, Molly, my love; get the salt-cellars for the Highlanders."
"Then I may write, or telegraph, to these men, and tell them to come?" asked Cornish. "Most certainly, my dear Anthony. We will collect them, or muster them, as White calls it, in London, and then send them to Scheveningen, as before, when Roden and Herr von Holzen are ready for them. Send a note to White, whose department this mustering is.
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