Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-01
voice of Sally Wages, that confidence

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was restored.
Indeed, the form seemed that of
man because Miss Sally had upon her
head the cooked hat and on her body
the regimental coat that Grandfather
Scribner had worn in the French war,
twenty years back, and as for the short
clothes and stockings, the mystery of the
arrangement by which Miss Sally made
herself appear from the knees down like
heavy imbed young fellow was never
explained.
Five men of us," she said, and with
no such thought of the picturesque,
perhaps comical picture she made as
fitted through the quick brain of young
Lathrop.
She led them out to the hill that TANKS
the highway by which the British must
come, matter of hundred yards rods
from the house. Then she commanded
her father to fasten the five lanterns to
a long pole, and attach each end to
tree, and the moment she gave command
he was, by such violent swinging of the
pole, to make, by the confusion of lights,
the hve lanterns seem as nearly like fifty
as the alcohol in his nerves would per-
init.
Without one word of remonstrance
Squire Scribner obeyed her, and got be-
hind tree, and Grandfather Scribner
knelt, the better to steady his muscles,
by rock, while Capt. Sally and young
Lathrop stood exposed.
BY and by the British came along.
They were merry with liquor, ard Capt.
Saliy's army could hear their boasts of
what would happen in the Sc aires
house within an hour.
Young Lathrop was for shooting when
away out of range, and Capt. Sally
found it necessary to give him a tap on
the hip with tie butt of her musket
that made him vince before he came
into discipline.
At last they got half dozen of them
well abreast of the army in ambush on
the hillside.
"Now," whispered Capt. Sally"
when l give the military command,
father, see to it that the lanterns culver
like firebugs, and we'll give them g re-
ception from the 'Squire's farm that
some of their mothers and sweethesrts
will lament.
Then she stepped out into full view,
with young Lathrop by her side. She
waved her gun with as nearly like the
encouraging motion which commander
gives his sword on entering actions as
the weapon would permit, and then gave
this astounding order:
Halt the whole universe, by flank
into kingdOms-fYel
The military command astonished the
British, but that WAS nothing to the
surprise that followed the volley. Two
or three went down, and one staggered
and made his way to the roadside, and
when the Others. looking up, saw the
mulitudinous display of Pickering Ian.
terms, they took 40 second thought as to
whether they had better stay and fight
or 60 the other way. They went with
all speed, not stopping to see who were
left behind.
Now, of all the nursing and care that
wounded soldiers had in that struggle of
the revolution, none had better than the
three men whose bodies had been the
target of Captain Sally's army, for Miss
Sally Wages nursed them herself.
Dy VIC ucAt uhy tne cohtlnentAl mlIlLla
were on hand and had driven these
marauders back.
From that time on, Miss Sally Wages
went on a new road. 1t seemed AZ if she |
had awakened that night from a sleep
that had lasted since her birth. Her
advice was wiAdom, her courage inspir.
ing, and her ambition great SO great,
in fact that some wears afterwards she |
married young Lsthrop and his ships and
other possessions, and more than one of
her descendants have been in high places
since.