A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . the animals was a camel and which a hippopotamus, you pays your money and you takes your choice. MY SUMMER ACRE 401 It was a magnificent but useless display of assaulting column was repulsed with the loss oftwenty-two men—as many as had been slain on Har-lem Plains. Among the killed was Major Henly, whowas shot at the head of his men and while cheeringthem .on. His body was recovered, carried back tothe American camp, and buried by the side of ColonelKnowlton, hero of the engagement of the week
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . the animals was a camel and which a hippopotamus, you pays your money and you takes your choice. MY SUMMER ACRE 401 It was a magnificent but useless display of assaulting column was repulsed with the loss oftwenty-two men—as many as had been slain on Har-lem Plains. Among the killed was Major Henly, whowas shot at the head of his men and while cheeringthem .on. His body was recovered, carried back tothe American camp, and buried by the side of ColonelKnowlton, hero of the engagement of the week be-fore, within the embankments of a redoubt on thelofty bank of the Harlem River. The prominentoutlines of the earthworks on that wooded promon-tory and the old road down the steep hill to the covebeyond High Bridge have but very recently givenway to the touch of time and improvement. It wasa sad surprise to the Americans, this first and onlybattle on the islands of the East River. The Americans were scooped, werent they ? in-quired Master Felix. Now, I hate slang of any sort,. FORT FISH 402 MY SUMMER ACRE and yet I have been forced more than once to admitthat it is very expressive in the way of phraseology,and that much of it is very good English. So. as Imeditated upon a proper method of rebuke, it occurredto me that the word might be of Dutch derivation,and turning to my library I became convinced that itwas so. For a traveller from Holland, who passedthrough the island of Manathans 200 years ago,has left it on record that when he reached Nieu Haer-lem he stopped at the house of one Geresolveert (thatis, his Christian name was Resolved ), who was ascoup, or constable, of New Amsterdam. Evidentlyhe was the right sort of man for his business, for theguileless traveller adds that his house was constantlyfilled with people all the time, drinking for the mostpart an agreeable rum. The inference from his titu-lar designation is irresistible. It is plain that thescoup who gather
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