Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-02-04
NO. 81

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The milishy.'
Come along shouted Zekle, qet 'em
come. like TO see 'em takin' our powde,
aud shot 'thont askin'. Guess they'll
hear thunder, eff they stick their heads
inter 4 hornest's nest
Dreadful suz,' exclaimed Aunt Poll
pulling turnips out ofthe pot with reck
less haste, and so scalding her brown
fingers emphatically; 'be they acorn
min here! will they fetch along the bat
term rams?'
Thunder an dry trees calculated
Zekle, what does the woman--.' but
ut that instant Long made for the door.
and flung It open, thereby prel entin2
explanations.
'Goin' to Concord; Georee?' shouted
he TO George Tucker, who in n one-horst
wagon, and his Sunday best clothes, WA
Irving slowly pas1.
No, going to Lexington, after corn
Can do anything for your
swell, no; I 'xrcct not. When be
You a-comin' back?' 8aa
i don't know .ei.
'Well, so long, good luck to We; keel
20 wind'ard o squalls, George
Long nodded, and George drove on.
That day the whole village of Westhury
vas in IN uproar. News had come from
Boston that the British were about t.
send out forces to possess themselves o
all the military stores in the county
and forestail rebellion by rende ing il
helpless. From every corner of every
farm and village, young men and old
mustered; f'om every barn, horses of al
sizes and descriptions were driven oul
md saddled; rusty muskcts, balls of al
shapes and of any available meal that
would melt and run, disabled broad
swords, horse-pistols, blunderbusses
whatever wor, any resemblance to ;
weapon, or could be rendered servicea
Die to that end-all were hunted out
cleaned, mended. and laid ready; an ar
ray that might have made a properI,
drilled and equipped army smile in con
tempt, but those deficiencies were NOR,
5han supplied by iron SinewS, true blood
esolve and desperate courage.
Sally and Aunt Poll partook The gal.
IF patriotism. They secured the 'ol'
queens arm to brilliancy; they ran bu
let's by the hour, baked bread and brew
ed Spring beer with no more definite
purpose than i 9 N, raj conviction tha
men must and would eat, as the men o
their house certainly did, in the inter
walls of repairing harness, filling pow
lerhorns and shot belts, tro,ting over
to the tavern after news, coming bael
to retail it, till Aunt Poll began to i'm
agine she heard the distant strokes of;
battering-ram, and rushing out in terror
to assure herself, Undiscovered it to be OIL,
Sam Pcquot, an old Indian, who, witt
the apathy of his race, was threshing ii
| the barn.
Aunt Poll took down JoSephus to re
/ fresh her memory, and actually drew
laugh from Sally's grave lips by conf
ding to her this extreme horror of TIN
case; laugh she lorgaye, since Sail.
treasured her by recommending to he
notice the fact tina Jerusalem had s.on'
walls that were more difficult to climl
than stone fences. As for Sally, sh'
thought of Geoege all day,of George al
night, and while the next day deepeneC
toward noon, was still thinking Of him
when in rushed Long Snaps, tarpaulil
| in hand, full of news an1 horror.
Il swan we've got it now said he
Them darned Britishers set our 70
Concord las night, to board our deck
and plumber the magazine the boy
heerd ont and they WIS ready over Il
| Lexin ton waitin round the meeiin' us
they stood tot, an that old powdc
monkey Pitcairn sung out to throw dow
their arms, dArnel rebels; an can'e the,
didn't muster to his whistle he let fly Il
'em like split; am there's some killed All
more wounded pretty much all on en-
our folks though :hey did give the reg
las one round o. ball aforc they rum.
'Hoorah y shouted Zekle; that's tn,
talk; guess they'll sing small next time!
THEY'LL do more'n that, Zcklc,' re-
sponded Long, this amt but the begin
nin' o. sorrers, as Parson Marsh seq, Sc;
he, there'll be hull guilt stream . blooC
afo re them darned reglars knows tn,
color ont well enough to lay thei
course .......
Sally gliled past Long, and plnckec
him by the sleeve, unseen by the rest
He followed her into the shed. She wa
CHASTITY pale, Long, said she, hurriedly
did you hear who? was anybod,
shot?'
Bless We gal, hull school OH 'em wa
shot; there wasn't many went to tn
bottom, though; han't heerd no names.
But George 2 gaSptd Sally, 'he wen
20 Lexington yesterday
'Well, | am took aback : growle,
Long;-I swear never thought on't II
90 see
Come back and tell me p whispered
Sally.
Lord-a massey, yes, child, Jest rs soor
I g | know myself trcwlv, but | shan
know nothin more till sundown, | ok
pect. Desire Trowbrilee Is a-ridiug pos
hen come through bout that time viii
news
Long did not come back for severa
hours, some time afier shutdown, when
he found Sally in the shed, waiting 70!
him. She saw the news IN his face
Dead 2 said she, clu-ching Mt the ole
sailors hand.
NO, no, he ant slipt his moorin's yet
but he is badly stove about the fgger
head; he's got a ball through his head
somewhere an another inhis leg; and he
ant within bail, don't hear no speakit'
trumpcts; fact IS, Sally, he's in tor thc
dockyard u good spdl, if he amt broke
Mp hui and all
WHO shot him 2 whispered Sally.
That's the best ont, gal; he's took All
tackled beautiful: he went into port al
Lexin'ton yesterday, ani heerin' there
all sides o The story. an how them crit