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"Peter is our friend; and his command over these savages is wonderful! Never before have I seen red men so completely under the control of a chief. Your men at Fort Dearborn, corporal, were scarcely more under the orders of their officers, than these red-skins are under the orders of this chief!" "I will not go to compare rig'lars with Injins, Mr. Parson," answered the corporal, a little stiffly.
"And wasn't Captain Singleton shot off his horse but tin days gone by? Aye, and Captain Jack himself too; and didn't he lie on the ground, face uppermost and back downwards, looking grim? And didn't the boys t'ink him dead, and turn and l'ave the rig'lars the day?" "You lie back again," cried the sergeant, fiercely; "and so does anyone who says that we didn't gain the day."
Why, who ever saw a respectable shiner goin' about with a three-legged stool for a blackin' box? It ain't the thing. The rig'lars chaffs me fit to throw it at their 'eads, they does only there's too many on 'em, an' I've got to dror it mild. A box I must have, or a feller's ockypation's gone. Look ye here! One bob, one tanner, and a joey!
"God send it may be true; I want their escort in again." "Them ten whaleboats would not move so fast unless they were better manned than common." "Perhaps," cried Mr. Wharton in alarm, "they are they are continentals returning from the island." "They look like rig'lars," said the peddler, with meaning. "Look!" repeated the captain, "there is nothing but spots to be seen."
"The scattering guns are from the Connecticut militia," said Harvey, raising his head to listen; "they rattle it off finely, and are no fools at a mark. The volleys are the rig'lars, who, you know, fire by word as long as they can."
"Pooh! pooh! sergeant dear," said the washerwoman, raising her head from the blanket, "where's the harm of taking a life, jist in the way of battle? Is it the rig'lars who'll show favor, and they fighting? Ask Captain Jack there, if the country could get free, and the boys no strike their might. I wouldn't have them disparage the whisky so much."
"Oh! you are reputed loyal, Mr. Birch. But the volleys have ceased!" Both now listened intently for a little while, during which the irregular reports became less brisk, and suddenly heavy and repeated volleys followed. "They've been at the bayonet," said the peddler; "the rig'lars have tried the bayonet, and the rebels are driven." "Aye, Mr.
"'Drot me if I know a better way than to jump slick aboard her, returned Desborough musingly; 'forty genuine Kaintucks ought to swallow her up, crew and all. "'I guess they would, returned his companion, 'but they are not Kaintucks, but only rig'lars; and then agin if they are discovered one spry cannon shot might sink her; and if the eagles go to the bottom, we shall lose our fiftieth.
"They say, however, at the Plains," the peddler continued, first throwing his eyes again around the room, and letting them rest for an instant on Harper, "that Sumter and one or two more were all that were hurt, and that the rig'lars were all cut to pieces, for the militia were fixed snugly in a log barn."
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