. chose the least byagreeing to supply them (the British) with forty sheep at thetime appointed, which was punctually performed. During the bombardment, a goodly number of shot, shell,bombs and carcasses had been showered on the unhappy ball with more zeal for total abstinence than was prevalentat that time entered Finneys distillery house, and passingthrough three hogsheads and barrels of rum spilt their local rhymester makes light of the bombardment as fol-lows: Another truth to you I tell That you may see they
. chose the least byagreeing to supply them (the British) with forty sheep at thetime appointed, which was punctually performed. During the bombardment, a goodly number of shot, shell,bombs and carcasses had been showered on the unhappy ball with more zeal for total abstinence than was prevalentat that time entered Finneys distillery house, and passingthrough three hogsheads and barrels of rum spilt their local rhymester makes light of the bombardment as fol-lows: Another truth to you I tell That you may see they levelled well; For aiming for to kill the people, They fired their shot into a steeple. They fired low, they fired high,The women scream, the children cry,And all their firing and their racketShot oflE the topmast of a packet. But notwithstanding this scorn of British marksmanship,and although the same poet continues in rather limping lines: Neither was any person hurtBut the Reverend Parson Burt: ^■^^- : , ^HK -a ■:-■•-i i ! jIMB ^m m Rf #^; , I^^K. HON BENJAMIN BOURN, M. C. Born Dec. q. 1755 Died Sept. 17, 180S Mem. First U. S. Conu. & U. S Dist. judg MRS. JULIA (BOURN) JONES 5oni July m. 1790; Died Jan. 9, 1S42 Daughter of judge Bourn
Size: 1337px × 1868px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidperrysofrhod, bookyear1913
