. Bill Nye's history of the United States. this betreason, make the most of it. He alsosaid that George the Third might profit by theirexample. A good many would like to knowwhat he started out to say, but it is too hard todetermine. Boston ladies gave up tea and used the driedleaves of the raspberry, and the girls of 1777graduated in homespun. Could the iron heel ofdespotism crunch such a spirit of liberty as that ?Scarcely. In one family at Newport four hundredand eighty-seven yards of cloth and thirty-six pairsof stockings were spun and made in eighteenmonths. When the war broke out it is e
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. this betreason, make the most of it. He alsosaid that George the Third might profit by theirexample. A good many would like to knowwhat he started out to say, but it is too hard todetermine. Boston ladies gave up tea and used the driedleaves of the raspberry, and the girls of 1777graduated in homespun. Could the iron heel ofdespotism crunch such a spirit of liberty as that ?Scarcely. In one family at Newport four hundredand eighty-seven yards of cloth and thirty-six pairsof stockings were spun and made in eighteenmonths. When the war broke out it is estimated thateach Colonial soldier had twenty-seven pairs ofblue woollen socks with white double heels andtoes. Does the intelligent reader believe that 144 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Tommy Atkins, with two pairs of socks andhit a-rainin, could whip men with twenty-sevenpairs each ? Not without restoratives. Troops were now sent to restore order. Theywere clothed by the British government, butboarded around with the Colonists. This was. THE BRITISH BOARDING ROUND. irritating to thepie, because theyhad never met orcalled on the Brit-ish troops. Again, they did not know the troopswere coming, and had made no provision forthem. Boston was considered the hot-bed of the rebel-lion, and General Gage was ordered to send tworegiments of troops there. He did so, and a fightensued, in which three citizens were killed. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 145 In looking over this incident, we must not for-get that in those days three citizens went a gooddeal farther than they do now. The fight, however, was brief General Gage,getting into a side street, separated from his com-mand, and, coming out on the Common abruptly,he tried eight or nine more streets, but he cameout each time on the Common, until, torn withconflicting emotions, he hired a Herdic, whichtook him around the corner to his quarters. On December i6, 1773, occurred the tea-partyat Boston, which must have been a good deallivelier than
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