Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 18: what you’re looking at

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?. » * ae 4 4 4 . 3 <i a hs ol . . ° ’ —_—— 4 ris¥§ ¥ iM 7 y THE SONS OF LIBERTY. any sort of use for yew to know, my name is Tommy Per- kins, and I live down there by Weathersfield. I cum up— here to Dorrup to see my uncle, and dod rabbit it ef the old cuss ain’t gone off to Albany. Let him go, ther old rip !” “Were you in Weathersfield when the farmers came to Jared Ingersoll’s house and made him resign ?” 3 “Yes, I was! You'd better believe it. It was a mournful sight to see him take off his hat and give three cheers for Liberty, Property, and no Stamps! A mournful sight, now mind I tell yew! There was not a dry eye in the crowd.” “Is that so?’ asked one of the royalists. “Now we thought that every one enjoyed it.” _“ Allow me to repeat: there were tears in every eye at the spectacle,”’ | The faces of the listeners wore a doubtful look, while that of the Connecticut boy was as calm as a May morning. “ But, yew fellers ain’t answered my question yet. Dew they keep watch over the stamp-officer ?” “No.” The Sons of Liberty will come roaring into town when they get ready, and we shall hear them fast enough. The Greens are all up-stairs in the ball-room. When they hear the Sons coming, they will burst out and drive them all home, see if they don’t. They will soon get tired of that kind of sport.” ° “So they will,’ said Tommy. “Of course they will all zgome roaring down the street, and when: they come, then the Royal Greens will burst out and scare them half to death. ’Pears strange tew me that they shud be scart, too, when they have such nice long guns,” | “You don’t think they would dare to use them against the king’s men, do you? ‘That isn’t likely.” “To be sure! You are quite right. It isn’t at all likely. Now, I used to hev a king’s arm myself once, I bought it one day, and the next I put in about two fingers of powder, and dod rot my skin if she didn’t burst into forty thousand “pieces. Oh, they are good guns, them are king’s arms, Prodigious !” “T wonder when these fellows will come?” said one of the men. | “Oh, I don’t know. I'd have gone out and tried to find Commicloolks.Cconn