. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . country-fied appearance of his clothes. He bore these taunts patientlyfor a while, but finally turned upon his tormentor, and, in thepresence of a crowd of delighted spectators, gave him a soundthrashing. When he was nearly grown, he chanced to hear aneighbors son speak most insultingly of a young girl of thevillage. He at once demanded of the speaker proof of his as-sertion, but the latter refused to comply with his demand, say-ing, Its none of your business. Its anybodys business todefend a good girl, cried young Putna
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . country-fied appearance of his clothes. He bore these taunts patientlyfor a while, but finally turned upon his tormentor, and, in thepresence of a crowd of delighted spectators, gave him a soundthrashing. When he was nearly grown, he chanced to hear aneighbors son speak most insultingly of a young girl of thevillage. He at once demanded of the speaker proof of his as-sertion, but the latter refused to comply with his demand, say-ing, Its none of your business. Its anybodys business todefend a good girl, cried young Putnam, indignantly, as heconfronted the defamer. I knoiv you have slandered Nelly P . You think because she is a poor girl, and has no father, that you may say what you please about her. Twice youve done the same thing. Now own to Charley D , here, that youve lied about Nelly, or Ill thrash you. Before he had attained his majority, Putnam married adaughter of John Pope, of Salem. She bore him ten children,and died just as the troubles which led to the Revolution were (258). ISRAEL PUTNAM. ISRAEL PUTNAM. 259 beginning. Soon after his marriage he removed to Pomfret,in Connecticut, and settled on a tract of land he had set to work to clear it up, and labored manfully to over-come the difficulties in his way. He was successful, and in thecourse of a few years brought his rough land under control,and had converted it into a smiling and pleasant home for hislittle family. He was accounted one of the best, as well as oneof the most thrifty and prosperous farmers in his neighbor-hood. He was much annoyed, and put to considerable loss, by thedepredations of a she-wolf and her young, which for severalyears infested the neighborhood. In a single night in thespring of 1743, seventy sheep and goats belonging to Put-nam were killed by these animals. The whelps were de-stroyed by the hunters, and the dam was at last chased by thehounds into a deep rocky cavern about three miles from
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