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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Did mother say I could go, 'Siah?" cried the youngster, with undoubted satisfaction in his voice. "You're the best man that I know to get her to say 'yes'!" Bolderwood looked up from his work with much gravity. "This ain't no funnin' we're goin' on, Nuck. It's serious business. You kin shoot straight, an' that's why I begged for ye.
The word was taken up by a dozen voices and the settlers dressed hurriedly and ran forth from their houses. Meanwhile Master Fay had aroused certain men who happened to be in his hostelry, as well as the stablemen in the yard. There was a great bustle about the inn. "Boy!" cried the innkeeper to Nuck, who still bestrode Captain Baker's horse, "do you go and call Isaac Clark and Joe Safford.
Bill Splawn and Farmer Nuck Matson a requisition for supplies that would convert this body of infantry into cavalry rough-riders of that early day. The community did not wish to keep an army on its hands, and were willing to send it along by such means as they could spare handily.
"Look out for it, Kate!" commanded Nuck. "It's been freshly primed." But Katie was not afraid of firearms. She shouldered the gun and marched bravely toward the house. Mary, demure and curly headed, and little Harry, remained nearer the door, and lifted their faces to be kissed in turn by Enoch when he arrived. Then the boy turned to his mother. "Come in, my son," she said.
And they say leastways, a pedlar that come through here told us so last week that the Boston folks have got a lot of guns and ammunition stored in the country towns and the minute men are drilling day and night. Do you s'pose there'll be war there, Nuck?" "If the Massachusetts people feel like we do here in the Grants, there'll be fighting," said Enoch, his eyes flashing.
Nuck Harding was a proud boy indeed, for he was nigh the youngest among those who drilled. Such raiding as was done by the Green Mountain Boys that year was the work of small parties under Allen, Warner, or Cochran, and no general engagement occurred between the Grants settlers and the New York authorities, so Nuck saw no real service.
That's how I knew you was over here hunting." "But if you're in a hurry, leave me to do that," said the boy. "I'm all right now." "You're in as big a hurry as I be, Nuck," returned the ranger, with a grim smile. "I'm going to take you with me over to Mr. James Breckenridge's. Ev'ry gun we kin git may count to-day, lad."
He was a fair-haired boy and was forever smiling. Now he reached Nuck first and fairly hugged him around the neck, exclaiming: "We thought you were shot! However came you to be so long comin' back, Nuck? Mother's quite worritted 'bout you, she says." Katie, the fly-away sister of ten, hurled herself next upon her elder brother and seized the heavy rifle from his hands.
"Zuckers! but that was a great fight," he cried, hugging Enoch in his joy at finding him practically unhurt. "But you look as though you had been killin' beeves, Nuck. And who's this with you?" The individual in question rose stiffly to his feet with a significant "Umph!" "Why!" exclaimed Lot, "it's an Injin it's Crow Wing! Where'd you pick him up, Nuck?"
They helped him in, then, for his ankle was swelling badly. In the morning, Colonel Splawn gave the army a good breakfast, and it moved on. Lieutenant Clemens, however, did not get farther than Farmer Nuck Matson's. He was in a high fever by that time from his injured ankle, and Mrs. Matson put him to bed. So the army left him, and presently disbanded.
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