these � who have no consideration for decent orderly people � but your heart is with the boys that go for liberty you see i know you and am not to trust you perchance you have tell of one horse shoe robinson who lived over here at the i have heard many stories about that man replied the miller well i won t tell you that he is in your house to night for fear the might take you to account for such a never do well but you have got a poor fellow under your roof that has had a hard run to get here in my house exclaimed horse shoe robinson and then after a pause he continued well well there is no rule of war that a christian in refusing aid and comfort to a and hunted stranger who comes with no thought of harm to a peaceful family hearth i take no part in the war on either side and in your ear friend robinson i take none against you or the brave men that stand by you your hand again said horse shoe reaching towards the miller i have come to you under a sore press of heels an officer of the continental army and me have been travelling through these here parts and we have been most by a half wild cat half bull dog known by the name of captain who us in the night at s ford heaven have mercy on the man who has anything to do with exclaimed the miller s wife amen mistress responded the for a piece of flesh there s not in these wild woods giving you the choice of bear or what not we were upon continued the by this bully and a of his and made prisoners but i took a chance to slip the this morning and after riding plump into a s nest at s where i put on a new face and the guard out of a dinner and this here old sword i took a bo shoe oh course for this mill people along the road where i should find and so after making some and into the woods until night came on to keep clear of the here i am and the officer said he is in the hands of the yet � most likely now at s what might be his name major butler � a bold warm gentleman � that s been used to tender life and good fortune he has lands on the sea coast � unless that new court at that they call the court of has made them and void � as they have been making the estates of better gentleman than they could ever pretend to be taking all the best lands you see to themselves the cursed where did you come from with this gentleman a long way off mr � from old � but lastly from s s wife is a relation of my family then he is a filthy disgrace to all who claim kin with him was the man who put us into the s claws � at least so we had good reason to think there was a tidy and smart little there � tut man � i am talking of your own and kindred for her name was mary our girl said the dame with an animated emphasis our own mary what of her mr horse shoe robinson u that she is as good a child mistress as any honest parent wish for she got some sort of of what was contrived and so she appeared to major butler in a dream � or her ghost mercy on us the child has not been hurt cried the mother not ma am said robinson but it is as true as you are there she gave us somehow or other a warning that there was harm in the wind and we took her advice but it didn t do i wish the child were home said horse shoe robinson at day light boy saddle a horse and be off to s for mary the nephew promised to do the errand come mr robinson draw near the table and eat some thing with right good heart replied horse shoe but it s a kind of camp rule with me before i taste food � no matter where � just to look after captain peter that s my horse friend so by your leave just go take a peep to see that the captain is a good beast is a sort of right arm in times and as god ha n t given them the gift of speech we must speak for them shall save you the trouble replied a good horse never loses anything by the eye of his master said horse shoe u so i ll go with you in a short time the returned into the house and took his seat at the table where he fell to at what was set before him with a how far off he inquired is the nearest tory post mr colonel has some light corps stationed within two miles if you had been a little earlier you would have found some of them at my mill repeated horse shoe i thought had these parts under command so he has replied the miller but he has lately joined the garrison at rocky mount ha ha ha ejaculated robinson that s a pot into which will be dipping his before long all the land between and broad belongs to tom let mad cap do his best we mr have a little touch of the in us we travel pretty much where we please now i will tell you friend very plainly what i am after i don t mean to leave these parts till i see what is to become of major butler and put together sha n t hinder me from looking after 