Tarry at home travels . General Putnams Feat at Horse an old engraving. a time, is the suggestion of this shoemaker,Roger Sherman. There is a kind of promptness about thesepeople which comes out in the most charmingway in history. As it happened, and I havealways been glad of it, I was in the room withGrant when somebody told him a story how, six 272 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS months before Lexington, General Gage seized apowder-house of ours in sight of Beacon Hill, andhow the news ran like wildfire down into Connecti-cut, and how, without any order from any Gov-. Putnams Wolf Den. ernor
Tarry at home travels . General Putnams Feat at Horse an old engraving. a time, is the suggestion of this shoemaker,Roger Sherman. There is a kind of promptness about thesepeople which comes out in the most charmingway in history. As it happened, and I havealways been glad of it, I was in the room withGrant when somebody told him a story how, six 272 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS months before Lexington, General Gage seized apowder-house of ours in sight of Beacon Hill, andhow the news ran like wildfire down into Connecti-cut, and how, without any order from any Gov-. Putnams Wolf Den. ernor, the freemen of the town in which Grantsgrandfather lived marched to the relief of Boston,and how his grandfather was among them. Thatis the sort of story which you can pick up anyday in any town, if you will go to the right per-son and if you care about the realities of history.
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