Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-16

OF knights Grant like you, Peter.
PeekskilI is not many miles away from
the spot of one of my young romances.
The noble old boy paused an instant.
sentimental with the recollection OF
handsome Mary Phillipse and nineteen
years ago.
,.The men will come like drawing
teeth" he resumed. "Old Put is-what
was that Latin phrase you used ABOUT
| him to Lafayette the other day."
.sTenax propositi," Skerrett replied.
"Anglice, obstinate as mule. An,
! Skerrett. we poor land surveyors, that
had to hug levels and compasses through
the woods, know little Latin ana less
Greek. But there was more OF your
quotation to express the Valuable sloe
of Putnam's character.
"Nec vultus instantis tyrannl, MEME
uuatit solida," quoth the major: ana
then translated impromptu. Never
scowl DER tyrant's jowl his still ola
/ heart can shake"
Washington laughed. Skerrett
laughed louder He was at that eoul-
lent age when life is letting off its over
charge of laughter. Young fellows at
| that period are bore or an exhilaratlon
"a bore, to say the least, If their anil
NAL spirits are brutal spirits-no bore,
even If not quite the ripest company,
proyided their glee does not degenerate
into uproar.
81 doa't know what 1 should do,
Peter. in these dark times without your
irrepressible good spirits" said the
chief. "My boys-you and Hamilton
and LAFAYETTE and Harry Lee-keep me
nm. I get tired to death OF the de-
spondences and prejudices and jealous
les of some Of these old women IN
breeches who wear swords or cast
votes"
"Perhaps you cannot spare me, then,
TO 20 to Peekskill," the major sald
slyly. 1a
His country's father smiled. "Be OF,
nv how. but don't stay too long. Your
mead will be worth more to Old Put than
q whole regiment. He's growing Old
He shows the effect of tough campaign
ing in his youth. Besides, keeping
tavern was not the best business 1or
man of his convivial habits"
owe Youngsters found that out al the
siege oi Boston, when you, general,
| were keeping yOuA Ao"N N-
apples and milk.
II ate 'em because 1 liked en- my
boy. My head keeps itself COOL by Inc
way. you will be able to help UeneTal
Putnam with that hot tempered La
Radiere. The old gentleman can never
forget how the Frenchmen and their In
dams mangled him in Canada IN nifty
| eight"
"He never can letanybody else forget
il. would give odds that he'll offer TO
tell that story before I've been Win MIN
fifteen minutes"
"Well, goodby. Harry on the regu-
lars. Let him call in the militia IN their
nlaces. Tell him he must hold the
Highlands. If he cannot keep Sir Henry
Clinton back until Gates takes Jack
Burgoyne, you and l, Peter VIII nave
TO paint ourselves vermilllon anu JUN
| the Tuscaroras.
After such a talk with our chief, who
was not the stllted prig that modern
muffs have made him, Major Skerrett
departed on his mission. He left head,
quarters a few days before that hit ana
miss battle Of Germantown.
Skerrett was young and hard rider
He famed his horse the first day. lie
lost time in getting another. IL was the
avaning of october eighth when, as ne
apDroached the North river TO cross 10
| Peekskill, the country people warned
him hack with the news that on the
sixtb Sir Henry Clinton had taken the
| HigbIand forts and Putnam had run
away to Fishkill. ,,..
"Rlock newsw thought Skerrett.
General Washington Will turn 1uSca-
rora now If ever"
Skerrett made circuit norCh"aIu'
crossed the Hudson at Newourg ana re-
ported to General Putnam, October nine'
sunset. at the Van Wyck farmhouse, on
the Main. half mile north OF the FISH
kin mountains. The heights rose IN
front. a rampant q thousand feet nigh'
Old Put limped out to meet Washing
tons aid-de-camp. lie was battered
veteran. lame with a fractured thign
stiff with coming paralysis, ana no"
desnondent after recent plumbers.
~Dnsky times, Skerrett," saws he for
Iornly. II suppose the chief sent you
for men. He's cannioal after human
| 0asb But don't worry me to-nlght.
To-morrow we're TO have a council OF
war and Pll see what can be done, l
snnnose YOU know what's happened"
"Yes-generally."
"Well, it's all clear for Clinton 70 go
nm and ioin that mounteoank, JACK Bur
royne. might just as well 60 nome
and set up tavern again to PomIret Ior
ANYTHING l can do here, Coo save Cne
King is going to make Yankee Doouie
sing small from yesterday on IL was
oil the fault of that cursed fog-we had
- Too nc thick as mush, all day on the
Sixtb believe them British ships
bronpht II with them in bags from the
ohon1al They choked up the river
nth their fog, and while l was waitln
Cor ,em over to Peekskill they crept
across and took the forts. Darn IL all.
pntnaro paused to take an indignant
braotb Skerrett smiled at the OLD
6aro's manner. When he was excited
tho Y,nkeeisms OF his youth came back
10 him. His lisp also grew more ueciueu.
| Nobody knows whether the lsp was
natural or artificial, and caueeu oy
! inwhreaker with the butt OF InuSkes
he cot from an uncivil Gaul at Fort Ii
in ffty-eight. His Yankeelsms' MS
lien his drollery, his muddy schemes
made the Jolly old boy the chief comic
character OF our early Revolutionary
days ill s,icl, ont
that great underlip of his-the ugly
UaI,co1i, continued Old Put, when he
pears of this. He'll stop fghtin, while
be goes at his proper trade and writes
force with a Yankee in it, who'll never