The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-05

When Jack and Solomon were settin
out in a hired sloop for the Highland
next morning there were tears In tn
dark eyes of mis- Scott"
Amt she a likely womern?o Solc
mon asked again when with sail
spread they had begun to cut the water
Near Kings Ferry In the Highland
on the Hudson they spent a night |,
the camp of the army under Putnam
There they heard the first note of dis
content with the work of their beloved
Washington. 1t came from the lin.
Of one Colonel Burley of a Connection
regiment. The commander in chic
had lost Newport, New York and Phil
adelphia and been defeated on Ions
Island and in two pitched battles or
ground of his own choosing at Brandy.
wine and Germantown.
The two scouts were angry.
1t had been a cold, wet afternoon
and they, with others, were DRYING
themselves around a big, open fire of
logs in front of the camp post office.
Solomon was quick to answer the
complaint Of Burley.
He's allus been fghtin' a bigger
force O. w~ell-trained, well-paid men
that had plenty to eat an drink an
year.. An he's fit EN- with jest a shoe
string O. an army. When 1t come to
him, 1t didn't know nothin' but how to
shoot an dig a hole in the ground.
The men wouldn't enlist fer more'n six
months an as soon as they'd learnt
suthin,' they put fer hum. An with
that kind O. an army, he druv the Brit
ish u O. Boston. With a leetle bunch
O. 5000 unpaid, barefoot, ragged-backed
devils, he druY the British out O. Jer-
sey an they had $4,000 men in that
neighborhood. He's had to dodge
Ground an has KEEP his army from
bein' ct up, hide, horns an taller, by
the power O. his brain. He's managed
to take keer O. himself down thar in
Jersey an Pennsylyaney with the Brit
Ssh on all sides o. him, while the best
lighters he had come up here to help
I don't see how he could "a
lone it-d-n If I do-without the help
J God."'
"Gates is a real general" Burley
Iaid. washington don't amount to
hill O. beans"
Solomon turned quickly and ad-
-anced upon Burley.
IL didn't 'spect to find an enemy O.
ny kentry in this ere camp" he said
q a quiet tone. "Ye got to take that
ack, mister, an do it prompt, er ye're
DIN to be all mussed up
"Ye could see the ha'r begin to
under his coat" Solomon was
vont to say of Burley, in speaking of
hat moment. "He stepped up clus
n growled an showed his teeth an
hen he begun to git rooined."
Burley had kept a public house for
ailors at New Haven and had had the
eputation of being a bad man In a
larrel. OF just what happened there
a full account in a little army jour-
al of that time called the Camp Ga
cite. Burley aimed a blow at Solo,
on with his fist. Then as Solomon
sed to put it, "the water bust through
lie DAM" 1t was his way of describing /
lie swift and decisive action which
as crowded into the mex minute. He f
lied Burley and hurled him to the {
'ound. With one hand on the nape L
his neck and the other on the seat
his trousers, Solomon lifted his y
.emy above his head and quoted him
'er the tent top. C
Burley picked himself up and hav- G
g lost his head drew his hanger, and, n
re a mad bull, rushed at Solomon. h
ddenly he found his way barred by
ok.
Would you try to run a man through Il
fore he can drawn" the latter asked. Il
Solomon's old sword flashed out of u
scabbard.
Let him come on" he shouted. "Im :
re to hum with a hanger than l be -
h good vittles." :,
all the words on record from the g
$ of this man, these are the most :.
modest, but it should be remem- =.
ed that when he spoke them his
cd was hot. :
lack gave way and the two came
,ether with a clash Of steel. A
wd had gathered about them and
S increasing rapidly. They had
N fighting for half a moment around
fire when Solomon broke the blade b,
his adversary. The latter drew his o,
tol! Before he could raise it Solo "
n had fired his own weapon. Bur
S pistol dropped on the ground. In =,
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