Tarry at home travels . f Hesse out of his palace, and the Elector hadsome ready money by him. He found a youngJewish banker and placed his money in his handsat a very low rate of interest. It happened thatthe Jewish banker had no opportunity to returnit till the Elector came back after a good manyyears, and on the profits on that silver moneythe Rothschild fortunes were already well , if you please, that silver money which theElector had in hand was the identical store ofshillings and half-crowns which one George paid this gentleman for the troops who werekilled at Red Bank, w
Tarry at home travels . f Hesse out of his palace, and the Elector hadsome ready money by him. He found a youngJewish banker and placed his money in his handsat a very low rate of interest. It happened thatthe Jewish banker had no opportunity to returnit till the Elector came back after a good manyyears, and on the profits on that silver moneythe Rothschild fortunes were already well , if you please, that silver money which theElector had in hand was the identical store ofshillings and half-crowns which one George paid this gentleman for the troops who werekilled at Red Bank, who surrendered at Benning-ton and again at Saratoga, and who spent the restof the war as prisoners of war in Virginia. Per-haps the House of Rothschild some day will begrateful enough for this acorn from which grewa great tree, to endow a university for the study NEW YORK 297 of the metaphysics of war, in one of the Old Thir-teen States. Saratoga would be a good placefor it. There could be a long vacation in July and Burgoynes Army on the Road from Lake Champlain toFort Edward. August, when visitors could reside in the collegedormitories.)No American will go to see the. battle-grounds 298 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS of Saratoga or the place of the capitulation madeby Burgoyne without remembering that, a hundredyears after, a great American soldier died atMount McGregor. Yes, and if any one wantsto spend more time than our young friends did.
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