Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-22

h'Tsh, was a strong voice for all. She
tnsk two pinches of snuff and began
arin.
4 DR.. Warren; he did all our doctor
nv and nice man he was too; only
a'tnt thlrty-fve when this happened;
b,fhe had an old head on young shol-
de- tell you. When Mr. Saybury
on he used 10 talk over things when
! tlsiboy was baby, in our house, |
~ ss' a~.'r could swing him on my
= ''--'. NO d poppoose, and fight too, if
worst can,' to worst. And when he
told my old man that he was going
over to that fight, | lust naturally went
and looked up the things for Bill, the
powder horn and bullet mould. guess
didn't want to be tod what he would
do-ior if any body had doubted for
minute, guess should doubt wheth,
or William Saxbury was my husband
or not. wouldn't called my boy
alter him at any rate as have; our
William he is good son, and he's like
his father and he's done on water what
the old man did on land. He fought
IN the Constitution, and Commodore
Hull he Knows ii; and only hope to
heaven that he'll get his pay in his old
age and
Mother, mother, you're killing
yourself.
q tell you shan'tdie but once child,
and | should like to go home Just so,
on this blessed Sabba'-day afternoon.
Your old fathers lame leg don't troub.
lie him in paradise, and guess phthisc
won't trouble me- Here she took
long breath and proceeded. 'Mr Sax
bury always used to say that when he
first struck the spade in the earth, that
night, he felt as if he was digging
grave. So he did Zeke, and it was
piled full of stout men before that very
next night. There they worked and
worked and could see the lights aboard
the British ships all night long, and
hear II -sentries. When day broke, !
guess tAem same sentries rubbed their
eyes to see what had shot up in the
night, almost under their very noses.
Then the British guns began to speak
from the ships, and the fort on old
Copp's Hill. Mr. Saxbdry always said
it seemed as if the little bit Of break
fast he caught that morning was so
much throwed away; it seemed so, as
if he shonld be killed before night, and
the victuals to be of no use to any
body. A dreadful meal of victuals
that must have been, Zeke Jones, with
a cannot-ball coming tearing up the
hill every once and while, and scat
terlng sand dust
"Such forenoon as that was |
was a looking from day-brcak till noon,
ready to crack my eyes. never touch
ed to make the bed, nor TO git bit of
breakfast and with that great stout
boy Juggling at me more than half
the time, wonder ! hadn't tainted.
But God in heaven kept up our hearts
that day, Ezekiel Jones shat same
God carried US all through it, and now
frowns on onr children, a quarrclIng
about trlfles, and leaving that monny-
ment standing disgrace. GOD he
prospercd the right-Dr. Warren said
he would, and William Saxbury; that
boys father, he always said SO to
lIalleluyah to his name," she family
screamed, ''the Lord God Of Hosts and
the God Of Battles The race il isn't
always to the swift, nor the battle to .
the strong; if it was, we shouldn't be .
sitting here to-day, in the free and in
dependent States Of America"
Poor old Bill looked now more anx-
ious and shattered than his mother
Meier one of us said a word, as she 1
stopped for breath. She famed her
self, like all nature, with an old fan
that Bill brought home good many
years ago, and then she begun again.
"For minct there was a stop in
the firing, and | thong ht the British
had given in that they couldn't drive
'em. Then | saw boats and boats a
going from the Boston side, and from
the ships, and my William among 'cm
a working away, and not mnding moth.
ing else, like "A nest Of ants, that don't
know a great foot Is coming 10 crush
them, saw 'em land, all Of five thou
sand strong, aud no body tying to stop
EN-; and all them men, with their guns,
aud their trumpels, and their cannons,
going up to cat that little handful on
The hill. saw EN- march and march
aud march up the rise, aud not a shot
.nnn. from 'it. hill 1 ,unnI.,.l -