A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . f twenty secured asloop at a Connecticut village on the Sound, sweptdown stealthily through the perilous channels of HellGate in the twilight, and at midnight surprised andcaptured the guard at Turtle Bay and secured thestores. The old storehouse in which these valuablemunitions of war were deposited was yet standing,in my boyhood, upon a grass-grown wharf on thesouthern side of the little bay. It is gone now, andthe view from the rocky heights is changed, but thememory of brave men in the days wherein patrio
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . f twenty secured asloop at a Connecticut village on the Sound, sweptdown stealthily through the perilous channels of HellGate in the twilight, and at midnight surprised andcaptured the guard at Turtle Bay and secured thestores. The old storehouse in which these valuablemunitions of war were deposited was yet standing,in my boyhood, upon a grass-grown wharf on thesouthern side of the little bay. It is gone now, andthe view from the rocky heights is changed, but thememory of brave men in the days wherein patriotismwas cradled lingers there yet. This region saw other troublous times later on. In the summer and au-tumn of 1814, NewYork was throwninto a wild fever ofexcitement over arumor that the Isl-and of Manhattanwas to be invadedby a British defences werefew and Clinton, themayor, issued a stir-ring address to the people to give their personal servicesto aid in the completion of the unfinished fortificationsof the city. Four days later 3000 persons were at. TURTLE BAY MY SUMMER ACRE 397
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