A venture in 1777 . A VENTUREIN 1777. Between themselves the twins con-sidered the matter of precedencebased on age as important, and nowand then endeavored to adjust mat-ters by wager of battle. It wassettled at last by the elder brother,Tom, who decided that they shouldbe elder year about. Thus, in 1777Bill was the older, and was sadlyregarding the lapse into youthwhich was about to come in 1778,when Harry would be in turn thesenior. While Tom, who was to be six-teen in February, looked older, hisbrothers appeared younger thantheir years, and were two saucy,clever, reckless lads. A look ofch
A venture in 1777 . A VENTUREIN 1777. Between themselves the twins con-sidered the matter of precedencebased on age as important, and nowand then endeavored to adjust mat-ters by wager of battle. It wassettled at last by the elder brother,Tom, who decided that they shouldbe elder year about. Thus, in 1777Bill was the older, and was sadlyregarding the lapse into youthwhich was about to come in 1778,when Harry would be in turn thesenior. While Tom, who was to be six-teen in February, looked older, hisbrothers appeared younger thantheir years, and were two saucy,clever, reckless lads. A look ofchildlike innocence was part of the 18 protective capital the twins invested a VENTUREin mischief. They fought one an- IN 1777other, made common cause againstthe world, and had, as concernedTom, a certain amount of respectfounded on physical the close of this year 1777, SirWilliam Howe held the city of Pennwith some eighteen thousand miles away George Wash-ington waited in his lines at ValleyForge with three or
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