The Penn's Grove record., 1923-02-09
THE LIFE
OF
WASHINGTON
BY NJ. l.. WEEMS,
Formerly Rector of Mt. Vernon
Parish
CHAPTER VI

AhN vi ~ SSAAAN ~
a Blow at Fort Du Quesne-Falls-
Gallant Defense of Fort Necessity
-Retires From the Service i'll Dis
gust-Passed Into Again by Cen
eral BraddOck-Defeat and Death
of BraddOck. and Dreadful Slaugh-
ter of His Army.
well, what is to come, will comet"
said poor Paddy when going to the
CalloWs. Even so was come, as would
seem, the time that was to come for
kings to go forth to battle. The
truth is, numbers of poor tax ground,
and thence uneducated and half-starv-
ed Wretches in Britain in France, We're
become diseased with a moral casheXy
or surcharge of bad humours, such as
gamblIng, swindling, horse stealing,
highway robbing, &c, which nothing
but the S|aturnine pills and steel
points of Mars could effectually carry
of. Thus in all corrupted govern
ments war IS considered as a neces-
stIy evil. 1t was no doubt necessary
then.
Such was the remote cause.-the
proXimate history or how the dance
begun, we now proceed to relate.
We have just seen that the French,
pouring down from the lakes of Cam
ada, thick as autumnal geese, We're
dashing away on the Ohio, at an
alarming rate-multiplying forts
holding talks, and strengthening their
alliances with the Indians. And we
have seen that Washington, with
letters from Governor D%inwiddie, had
been out among the p~arlezvous, CON
Guering them by everything venerable
in treaties, valuable in peace, to de-
sist from such unwarrantable meas
ures. But all to no purpose-for the
French commandant, smiling at Wash
ington as a green horn, and at Din
widdie as an old fool, continued its
operations as vigorously as though
he knew not that the country in ques-
ton made part of the British en-
pire.
Swift as the broad-winged packets
could fly across the deep, the news
Was carried to England.-Its effects
there was like that of a stone hurled
against a nest of hornets. Instantly,
from centre to circumference, all this
rage and bustle-the hive resounds
with maddening insects; dark tumbling
from their cells they spread the hasty
wing, and shrill whizzing through the
air, they rush to find the foe. Just
so in the set-Tuling island, from
qeens-house to an ale-house, from
king to cockney, all were fierce for
fight. Even the red-nosed porters
where they met, bending under their
burdens, would stop, full-but in the
streets, to talk of England's wrongs;
and as they talked, their fiery shouts
were seen to grow more fiery still,
and more deformed. Then throwing
their packs to the ground, and leap
ing into the attitude of boxers, with
sturdy arms across, and rough black
jaws stretched out, they bend forward
to the fancied fight! The frog-eating
foe, in shirtless ruffles and long lank
queue, seems, to give ground! then
rising in their might, with fire strik-
ing eyes they press hard upon him,
and coming, in hand and foot, with
kick and cuff and many a hearty
curse, they shew the giggling crowd,
how, damn EN-! they would thump
the French.
The news was brought to Britain's
king Just as he had dispatched his
pudding; and sat, right royalty anus
ing himself with q slice Of Gloucester
and a niD of ale. From the lips of the
king down fell the luck'ess cheese.
alas, not grac'd to t0Ufortthe Stomach
Of the Lords anoirted; while crowned
with snowy foam, his uut-broVn ale
stood unta ted by his plate. -Jd5eHv.
he heard die news. the monarch
o T r re-