Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-22
JUNIOR STORIES.
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Listen, my children, and you shall
hear,
OF the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
Paul Revere was born in Boston in
1875, in what is now called the north
end of the city. He followed his faith
er in business as a goldsmith. He also
engraved copper plates.
He had taken an active part In the
Boston Tea Party" and in 1774 he,
with about thirty patriots, formed a
society to spy out the British plans.
The soldiers were instructed to go by
the way of Lexington and there arrest
Samuel Adams and John Hancock,
who were known to be stopping with
friend in that village.
April IS, 1775, Revere and his friends
noticed that the British were very
busy and thought they we're planning
to capture the American stores at Con-
cord. They told this to DR.. Joseph
Warren, who asked Paul Revere and
VIM. Dawes to go by separate roads on
their horses to Concord to give the
alarm that the British we're coming.
Revere went home and put on his rid
ing suit and to make ready for his
long, long ride. Then leaving word
with his intimate friend, Robert New
man, to hang lantern signal in the
Old North church. zone if by land and
two if by sea-" Revere rowed across
the Charles river and passed close
to the British man of war. On the op-
posite shore he soon got ready fleet
horse. He stood, bride in hand,
watching for the signal. At II o'clock
he sees glimmer and then a CLEAN of
light. He springs to the saddle, the
bride he turns, but fingers and gazes
till full on his sight a second lamp in
the belfry burned.
He sped on. When he reached the
house in Lexington where Hancock
and Adams were asleep man on
guard cried out to him, Don't make
so much noise" Noise shouted Re-
we're; you'll have noise enough, the
regulars are coming.
Near Medford he came near being
captured by some British officers. At
every house along the way he shouted
at their windows, Cup and arm, up and
arm! The regulars are out!"
He reached Lexington at midnight
and there VIM. Dawes and DR.. Pres
colt joined him and they rode of to-
ward Concord together. On the way
they met some British officers who
called out to them to halt" Prescott
escaped by his horse jumping a stone
wall Revere and Dawes were
caught by the enemy. In the meantime
eight hundred British men were
marching into Lexington. The British
thought they would surprise the Amer
leans but as they came nearer they
heard the beating of drums and the
ringing of bells and the firing of signal
guns.
Just at sunrise Major Pitcairn's sol
diers marched into Lexington There
they were met by forty or fifty min
ute men. Here Paul Revere escaped
from his enemy.
BY this time the British reached
Concord, but most of the supplies had
been hidden in the woods. A small
battle took place here at Concord. The
British started back to Boston On
the way behind every object a minute
man appeared.
You know the rest. In the books
you have read how the British regulars
fired and fed. How the farmers gave
them ball for ball, from behind each
fence and farmyard wall.
Paul Revere took no part in the bat
tie, but he was an active patriot in the
cause of liberty. After the war he went
back to his old work. He was honored
by every one. He died at the age OF
SO years in Boston, 1918.
Lucille White, Aged 10.
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