. Soldiers and patriots of the American revolution . ask any more questionsabout your stockings after that ? asked Bobby. Oh, she was puzzled, rather. But somehow OF THE REVOLUTION. 41 I hushed her up, and if she had any suspicionsshe was safe, and she kept me so by saying noth-ing. Well, that was the way, boys, that wemade Boston Harbor a teapot, and defied thetyranny that forced taxes on us. And now,whenever you look on that picture you havein your hand, youll set twice as much by it asyou did before, for you know one of the In-dians, and he has explained it to you himself. Thats trae, said
. Soldiers and patriots of the American revolution . ask any more questionsabout your stockings after that ? asked Bobby. Oh, she was puzzled, rather. But somehow OF THE REVOLUTION. 41 I hushed her up, and if she had any suspicionsshe was safe, and she kept me so by saying noth-ing. Well, that was the way, boys, that wemade Boston Harbor a teapot, and defied thetyranny that forced taxes on us. And now,whenever you look on that picture you havein your hand, youll set twice as much by it asyou did before, for you know one of the In-dians, and he has explained it to you himself. Thats trae, said both the boys. How much tea was there. Uncle Tim?persevered Tommy Brown, reluctant to leavethe subject. Three hundred and forty-two chests, and wewere only about three hours at it. You may be-lieve we worked hard, but we did it with agood will, for we were working for our liberty. The boys would gladly have tarried longer,and asked more questions, but some of theircompanions called for them, and they bade theold soldier good-bye till the next CHAPTER V. LEXINGTON AND CONCOED. A FEW days after Uncle Tims narrativeof the Boston Tea-Party, the same group ofchildren were clustered around him again. Theconversation at this time happened to turn uponthe battles of Lexington and Concord. You see, boys, said the old soldier, whenthe British Parliament saw that the Yankees hada will of their own, and wouldnt obey their un-just and tyrannical laws, they sent over morered-coats, a whole army of them, with plenty ofmuskets, cannon, and powder and shot, thinkingto subdue us completely. They called us rebels,and they calculated that their famous army was (42) SOLDIEES AND PATRIOTS. 43 going to scare our rebellion out of us, rightaway. Ah, boys, King George and his wise folks overthere had studied the wrong dictionary that they called rebellion was the spirit ofliberty, and they might as well have tried todrive salt out of the sea as to drive the spirit ofliberty out of the Y
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