. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . itain byher North American colonies. Fifty gentlemen put theirnecks in peril, and wives and children in fifty homes inBoston asked no questions that night as to where the headof the house had been. We are told that one wife, thinking her husbands shoes might be damp, brought <v his slippers to him, took the shoes up to dry s them, and found r a quantity of - tea inside. Sheconcealed herconsternation, : and asked no - questions tillthe King ofEngland ceasedto hold powerin the Colonies. The tea destroyed in Boston was worth more to the
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . itain byher North American colonies. Fifty gentlemen put theirnecks in peril, and wives and children in fifty homes inBoston asked no questions that night as to where the headof the house had been. We are told that one wife, thinking her husbands shoes might be damp, brought <v his slippers to him, took the shoes up to dry s them, and found r a quantity of - tea inside. Sheconcealed herconsternation, : and asked no - questions tillthe King ofEngland ceasedto hold powerin the Colonies. The tea destroyed in Boston was worth more to the worldthan all the spices of the East. It seems useless to tell over the old, well-known tale ofhardship, patriotism, and heroic endurance, that characterizedthat great struggle ; but it is so full of beauty, wonder, pathos,tragedy, and sublimity that no history is, or should be, moreattractive to Americans than this. How, when Gaffe de-termined to destroy the military stores at Concord, youngmen, on fleet horses, knocked at the house doors, rousing the. TELL-TALE SHOES. 380 OLD-TIME PATKIOTISM. minute-men, while a mysterious Light, streaming from thipie of one of the Boston churches, proclaimed that peril wasat hand : and how, after the reply by musket-shots to Pitcairnsdemand, Disperse, ye rebels, the British troops made theirway back through Concord to Boston. Major Buttrick, leap-ing forward, cried out, Fire, fellow-soldiers, for Gods sakelire!* At mum, that day, a splendid detachment of Britishsoldiers marched gaily out of Boston, their hand playing••Yankee Doodle, their officers boasting that at the meresight of the grenadiers caps the rebels would take to theirheels; yet before the evening gun was fired, foot-sore andjaded, the British soldiers flocked back to their quartfind themselves prisoners in Boston. How the little hand ofpatriots determined to gain possession of Bunkers Hill. by Colonel Pepperell, who declared, -1 am re-solved never to he taken
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