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the road, aiu Win lOuu cries the whole Van-
ishcd down the opposite dccliviiy, 'pursuers
and pursued
Here then, wns case oCncw difficulty for
our heroes. Hundreds of enemies were be-
tween them and the main body ofIheir troops,
and TO effect junction with them was there
fore next 10 impossible.
II wanted bnt few minu,cS 10 sunset, on
the day ulreadv quoted, when t"o men APP
parenllv much lmiaucd, threw themselves an
lhe bank Of q brook, several miles south OF.
the Boston and Lexington road. The young
grass afforded them grateful couch, aud the
free waters of the brook, swollen TO the green
hrim, went 10 onS'y on its course to the SEA-
\ small gfovrs If OAKS, rJund The eastern
! skirts of which thc brook wound It's way,
showed as yet no symptoms OF awakening
vegetation. Apparently unconscious OF the
mystic agency which had already called forth
/ from the ground humble but beautiful Signs
of life, the setting light of day streamed
through their bare and rugged branches cold
| " as winter. But nature was at work, IN
the air and in the earth; and the sap was
connecting, and flowing upwards. like life
blood, into those gigantic vegetables; just
like the revivifyng spirit of freedom, which,
however, invisible and mysterious its course,
was then flowing from the same maternal
earth iato The heart of every son and daneh
ter it reared and nourished. The spot here
described was not SO FAR from the Lexington
road but that, n, intervals the sound of can
non and heavy vollevs of mnske,ry would
reach it upon the evening hreezp, announce
! ing that the pursuit was not yet over; hut
they produced no effect upon thr men who
rested by the brook. Their whole appear
aucc bespoke extreme fhignc and eXhius-
lion. Their guns and Announcements were
thrown earnestly down, as if, like the heroes
of sacred writ vino smotc their enemies ill
their hands Glove to their swords, they could
no longer handle them. Their hands and
garments bespoke the bloody work in which
tney had been engaged. Both were men OF
extraordinary szr and wore tie common
dress Of American farmers. But in one, who
was n fine youth of some five or six and
twenty years, the strength was distributed SC
! Justly throughout, the whole frame that one
was at loss whether to pronounce him an
Apollo ol lIcrculcs. Iii, features too
though now haaglrd with fatigue, were noble
and expressive of great decision; and III,
large black eye, As he lay extended On III.
back, vaS turned to the evening sky with a
| fight in them lha, seemed unquenchablc.-
! His companion, however, was built entirely
after the Egyptian order, altogether for
strength and durability. Somewhat older
and some inches shorter than his comp,n,on
! he was nevertheless much heavier, his body
being throughout of the same size like rice
Ia; 81. al
TO the magnificent dimensions of Paddj
Carry.% His head was strictly BGoIian, his
dress coarscr than the others and his tom
ensemble bespoke a person two or three
notclies lower on the graduating scale OF so
cety. Thus they lay by the brook, toe
much iaigucd even for conversation; and i
was now dusk and the frosty dews of an Apri
evening were falling, when faint sound cam
from the west, like distant volpy.
Did you hear that, Joab 2 sad the youth
starting to his elbow, 1T is some of our folk
returning to the valley, and just letting oil
their guns, by way Of rejoicing
Our people are neither knaveS nor fool
to burn powder for nothing after such day
; WORK, and when we are likely 10 need ever
kernel We have
t Bat TINT iiring was at the valley, that
; sartn,' said J1ab, rolling over like IA huge o
: and getting up.
| 'rhere', no DENYING IT, said the Other
r rising also, aud collecting his arms, 'thrrc'
. 10 DENYING ,h1t; and ,arro is the mystery
! However, -lt1rrpp your atcVujrculcnls au
! we vii saol SapN Whit it means
/ \ cloui Of sm Ike, at dis moment, ros
B. from behind the trees in the wrS'. 'iiaSrr
( Jo,b c,ieA /. iwtrd, l,aping the brook an
striking into the grove ,lready noticed. Joa
t followed with bound nat made the ban
, shake again, aud both vanished among III
Z trees.
/ Nov We breathe again said Lirnieuan
u Eglcslone, as, alier skulking march of Ia
a an hour through tle pines, his party emerge
!, into IA road.
p 'Whcwr said Gordon, wipng his fer
r coun,enancc, and tanning himself will, hi
: cooked hat, 'iis very hot
S swell, here you can cool at your leisure
e said Eglrstone, see, no traces Of iighl-n
signs Of the encmy-men all out on the Lex
IS ingion road-nobody at home to entertain I
IS but the women
g Vire ramour,' shouted Gordon, spring
r ing from the fence where he had seated him
i self, 'lr,'s be moving
Q You would hardly have known them ft
II the same men, who an hour before were rnr
n ming before the enemy. The craven Tea
$. which had driven them from Concord, wa
G supplancd by feeling of security; and the
t. SION waxed bold enough 10 resume those ac
o of wanlon drprrdalons, which had aread
II stamped them Infamous. Here was not III
h freezing solitude of Concord, for the wome
Is and children saw them from their doors an
e windows, aud shrrkcd and lrd. Nolhin
q raises the courage of towards so much AS I'll
e shIcks hclplrssness. They followed wit
d loud shouts, entered the houses, dashed I'll
e windows aud furniture, pricked the chlldre
d with their haNonels, aud chased the shrlekin
women irom cellar To earrei.
II Sunsel brought them Ia the entrance OF
cpnsi lcriblc valley, through which IN beau'
u fll members glidrd small stream ct waite
c At the farther cad of the valley rose a v'llag
e >pirc, and some dozen or twenty chimnle'
e and nrarcr, on u lille eminence, stood a
elegant white house by itself The bnllilh!
j they had passed during the last hour, had
n been of the common order of farm houses,
1t that period; long, narrow buildings Idc,'
y the soul,, sometimes two stories IN 'front.'
y invariably one in the rear, where the TO
e approached within a few feet of the groun