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Updated: August 27, 2024

This store ain't worth a cent now. The Hudson's Bay Company'll come along with the redcoats, and they'll set up a nice little Sunday-school business here for what they call 'agricultural settlers. There'll be a railway, and the Yankees'll send up their marshals to work with the redcoats on the border, and " "And the days of smuggling will be over," put in the girl in a low voice.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights, Complete

Then we'll land on their side of the river and strike inland, hiding the boat under the bushes somewhere. They'll halt for the night when they're safe across the river. There's five or six hundred of their infantry camped on the ford. There's two hundred on our side, but the Yankees'll ride through in the dark and get across before the redcoats are awake.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - True to the Old Flag : A Tale of the American War of Independence

This store ain't worth a cent now. The Hudson's Bay Company'll come along with the redcoats, and they'll set up a nice little Sunday-school business here for what they call 'agricultural settlers. There'll be a railway, and the Yankees'll send up their marshals to work with the redcoats on the border, and " "And the days of smuggling will be over," put in the girl, in a low voice.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights

Then, as between laughing and crying her face contorted itself into a sort of spasmodic grin, he would say: "Now that's right, that's the way to do, if you'll just cheer up, I'll be all right; the Yankees'll not bother me much, you bet." It was upon a golden evening in June that little Billy bade farewell to his home, Miss Jemima and Kate going with him to the little wayside station.

Margaret Devereux - Plantation Sketches

This store ain't worth a cent now. The Hudson's Bay Company'll come along with the redcoats, and they'll set up a nice little Sunday-school business here for what they call 'agricultural settlers. There'll be a railway, and the Yankees'll send up their marshals to work with the redcoats on the border, and " "And the days of smuggling will be over," put in the girl in a low voice.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights, Volume 1.

The man tried to speak; but the boys could not understand him. "Where are you goin' get it, Frank?" asked the other boys. "At the branch down there that runs into the creek." "The Yankees'll shoot you down there," objected Peter and Willy. "I ain' gwine that way," said Cole. The soldier groaned. "I'll go with you, Frank," said Willy, who could not stand the sight of the man's suffering.

Thomas Nelson Page - Two Little Confederates