. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... he city before the battle of Bunker Hill,were prisoners in their own homes. In return, Washington sur-rounded Boston with his whole army, and held the country all had several generals to help him bring order out of chaos,most of whom had gained military experience in the French andIndians Avars. You can fancy it was no easy task to organize theseraw recruits into an orderly and disciplined army. General Hora-tio Gates was one of the ablest
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... he city before the battle of Bunker Hill,were prisoners in their own homes. In return, Washington sur-rounded Boston with his whole army, and held the country all had several generals to help him bring order out of chaos,most of whom had gained military experience in the French andIndians Avars. You can fancy it was no easy task to organize theseraw recruits into an orderly and disciplined army. General Hora-tio Gates was one of the ablest of them all in this respect. CharlesLee of Virginia also did good service, and one of the most famousof all was Israel Putnam of Connecticut, whom the boys called OldPut, a kind of pet name by which theyshowed their liking for him. He was famedfor his pluck ever since his wolf hunt,which was known all over the rotate of Con-necticut. The wolf story is as follows : — When Putnam was a young man, a farmer in Connecticut, he was very much troubled by a wolf which for several years General Potnam. ravagcd all the shccp hcrds for miles WASHINGTON AND HIS ARMY. 213 One morning, on finding he had lost a large number of sheep duringthe night, Putnam declared he would set out and destroy the fero-cious animal. He raised a party of neighbors, and they trackedthe creature forty miles, till they came to her den. This denwas a deep cave in the rocks, which a man could only enter bycrawling on his hands and knees. They tried to smoke the animalout, but it was impossible. They set dogs in upon her, and thedogs came out with lacerated flesh, howling with pain. At lengthPutnam declared he would go in himself. Tying a rope round hislegs, so that they might draw him out, when he should pull it acertain number of times, he crawled in slowly, holding a soon saw the eyes of the creature glaring from a corner of thecave. He gave the signal to be pulled out, and loading his gunout
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