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"Tituba being asked further to describe her ride to Thomas Putnam's, for the purpose of tormenting his daughter Ann, said that she rode upon a stick or pole, and Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn behind her, all taking hold of one another. Did not know how it was done, for she saw no trees nor path, but was presently there."
It was the sound of many horsemen galloping wildly onward. "The king's men landed at Kip's Bay this morning," gasped Andy, clutching the gate, "and they do say that Douglass's men are not strong enough to defend the point." It was Putnam's five brigades; the boy and girl only knew they were patriot troops. They had been ordered by Washington to make for Manhattanville before retreat was cut off.
Would he be so angry as to take very arbitrary measures; or so ashamed as to let it all pass, rather than expose the extent to which he had been duped? He feared the former knowing in which way Mistress Ann Putnam's great influence with him would be directed. Master Joseph advised immediate action if peaceable means would not serve, then the use of violent ones.
"Yes, we've learned him his lesson since he's been at Putnam's," reflected Albert. "'Ow long's he been training here then?" asked Cherry grudgingly, as he coiled the traces. "Five year I've had him now," answered Albert. "He come to me the spring afore Four-Pound-the-Second was foaled." Cherry led the old horse into the stable and put him into an empty stall. " shame I call it," he said.
To-day we dined at six P. M., and read till nine. Then drove to an evening salon quite an early little party at Mrs. Putnam's. Saw there Peter Parley and La Rochejaquelin, the only one of the old nobility that joined Louis Napoleon. Peter Parley is consul no longer, it seems. We discussed the empire a very little. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." Opinions are various as the circles.
Monkey ducked his head and patted the back of it. "Never!" cried Joses. The other raised a deprecatory hand and turned away. "You know best, o' course, Mr. Joses," he said. "You've the run o' Putnam's same as me. And you're an eddicated man from Oxford College, where they knows all there is to know." He was limping away. Joses hung on his heels. "Steady on, old sport," he said. "D'you mean that?"
"A fine couple," was Captain Putnam's comment. "A fine couple, truly!" "Yes, indeed!" echoed George Strong. "I wish them every happiness." "A perfectly splendid wedding, don't you know!" lisped William Philander Tubbs. "Why, I really couldn't run it off better myself!" "It was all to the merry!" was Stanley's comment. "She's a dandy girl, too wish I had one half as good."
It was now charged upon him, though I do not assert it of my own knowledge, that he had found it profitable to become the assassin of criticism and the undertaker of literature, for which offices he was amply qualified, notwithstanding the very serious writers in Putnam's Magazine thought he ought to be transported to Sandy Hook, there to do penance among the breakers a whole November.
Murray had accumulated a fortune as a salt merchant on Long Island during the British occupation. Strong patriot as Freneau was, he was attracted to the son at first through the memory of the parent, for it was Lindley Murray's mother, living on Murray Hill, who had saved Putnam's troops from being trapped by the British.
Augustine, San Antonio, Santa Fe and San Francisco are cities that were built by Frenchmen and Spaniards; we did not found them but we conquered them." None of the possessors of this territory were properly armed or equipped for effective warfare. All of them fell an easy prey to the organized might of the Government of the United States. New York, Putnam's, 1896, vol. 4, p. 262.
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