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and stop almost every body tina, passed the
door, to say something TO them. You
know he is very good wbig, and The two
other prenices and are better still, and
80 are The Journeymen. In the afternoon
the old man went TO the meeting OF The
Old South, and when he came home he
was so full Of it that he told US oil about il.
AND then he lett Us to go TO the wharf 10
have look OF the tea ships; and presently
the jnnrneymen went off too. As soon ms
they were gone, we concluded TO 90 also
as 1t was now shutdown, and time TO QUIT
work and shut up. So we put GU, the shop
fire and having furnished ourselves with
good clever sticks, to be used in case of
need, Cromwell, Bradshaw and set of
towards Grlf1in's whnrf* When we got
there the moon was just rising above the
water, and the ground being covered with
snow, made it very light. We found q
crowd Of people, all Standing and looking
at the ships, and the crowd increasing
every moment. We saw our master on
The wharf
And was not he angry 10 sec you there
asked Aunt Rhoda.
Not at ALL said Chase; che capped
each Of US on the shoulder for coming, and
told us we were boys of the right sort, and
chips Of the old block, meaning himself.
| Presently we heard a sound like the steps
Of large company of men coming down
the wharf in close order. About twenty
of them were disguised as Indians, and
there were others Whose faces were smut
Ied) dressed up in red caps, old Grocks o!
brown linen, long gowns, and all sorts of
queer things
Are you sure the Indians were not rale
ones ? said Aunt Rhoda.
Very sure. Nobody but an Erglishman
can mistake white man for an Indian,
however well disguised. No, no lit was
easy TO understand tina: those were some
OF our own townsmcn, painted and fea,h-
cred. and dressed with legg.hs and mecca
sons, and wrapped in blankets though some
Of them as we afterwards found. could talk
and behave like very good InjIans. Still,
| believe that no one who was not in the
secret, could guess exactly who any OF
them were: though in one or two we saw
laced ruff1es peepng out from beneath their
blankets. AS they came along, voices in
The crowd called out-'There are the Mo
hawks-the Mohawks are coming.
The crowd parted off, right and left,
and the Indians passed through the middle,
aud stopped at the very end Of the wharf,
where the Dartmouth was lying, the Flea.
nor and the brig Beaver being on each side.
Without waiting moment, the Mohawks
went straight TO the business they came
upon. One ofthem acted as chief, another
as Interpreter and they pretended TO hold
q sort Of parey with some persons who had
already stationed themselves on the deck
of the Dartmouth, and who of course were
in the secret. Remember, am only tell.
ing you what saw and heard myself. As
yet, we can only guess who were the people
that set this business going
Time will discover all observed Tudor.
May b, it will, and may be it won't
remarked Aunt Rhoda. Il am sure I've no
idea who stole my dead husbands best
wig, fifteen years ago last Pope Day.t
And still, that very night, when the show
went by there sat the pope high on the
stage, among all the other images, the light
garing round him and my husbands best
wig on his head-quite too good a one to
60 into The bonfire when the show was over
Now, continued Chase, you cant
think how hard we found it to keep our
countcnanccs when we heard the chief
who dare say was ready to laugh himself
having loud pow WOW, as the Indians call
1t, with the man that stood for interpreter
In few minutes somebody from the
Dartmouth Zone ofour own people of course)
called out, What does the chief say, Mr.
Interpreter '-'He says you must ask the
mate for the keys Of the ships ha, ches and
then the matches must be opened and taken
up and slowed safely aside, ou, Of The way;
and you must tell the mate that no damage
shall be done to the ship or rigging, or the
furniture, and not rope yarn shall be taken
away or destroyed Then there was a
pow WOW again. says the chief,
Mr.. Interpreter ? cried the voice from the
ship, lie says, we want some of you
sailors to rig derrick over the hatch way
What is a derrick p asked Annis
'Oh thing TO hoist with replied
Chase. 80 sore sailors stepped forward,
and fixed the derrick. The same was done
in the other ship and in the brig, without q
word of objection
We'll | wonder at them, said Aun,
Rhoda.
so do l. said Chase and heard on
The wharf, that when the mate Of the
Dartmouth was asked for a light TO 60
down below with, he had a whole pound
oil candles brought Immediately. However,
to go on with my own part of tho story
there was another pow wow What says
the chief, Mr.. Interpreter "-'lle says he
wants some smart young men to break up
the chests as they are hoised out and to
throw all their contents into the sea-.
There was another parley- and the inter.
prefer being again questioned, replied,
The chief wishes you to understand tina.
the whole cargoes of the three vessels must
be discharged entirely into the water,
*rhe particulars Of this scene Gas Ear as related
by Chase Loring) were Obtained from an old revo.