Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 60: what you’re looking at

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& THE SONS OF LIBERTY. Schenectady and Johnstown, who had seen him at the village. They had many questions to ask of the posture of things in the village. ; “What do they say about our taking this Captain. Edgar Chambers prisoner ?” » “ They are especially and essentially angry, I reckon. They are arambunctious and most wnearthly crew. They calculate that they can chaw up all the Tories in Tryon county, they dew, by gravy! What will yew dew with this young cap’n ?” “’Tain’t decided yet.” “Where is he? Here?” “Oh, no. He is in jail at Johnstown. The sheriff has him ?” : aren “Good for him. I hope they have got him fast.” “They have, that,’ said the spokesman. “ You had better believe it. But the Sammons family are mad about it, and are raising a great dust in Johnstown. Sir John is going to ride down there to-morrow and see about it. Sir Guy is going, and Colonel Claus, and a lot of our boys.” “T'll go, tew,” said Tommy. “I talk about j’ining you, and I want to see how you work. If you crow hearty, and make good work among the Johnstown Whigs, why, then, maybe T’ll j’ine.” He had a bed, that night, at the Hall, and next morning joined quite a large cavalcade, which rode down to Johnstown, headed by the two baronets. : “Who are the Sammons family ?” asked Tommy, looking at David, wlio rode at his elbow. “Ourse them,” replied the Tory, “they are to this town what my brothers are to Schenectady, with the exception that old man Sammons is as bad as his.sons, while my progenitor knows enough to keep quiet. Sampson Sammons, and his two sons, Jacob and Frederick, are the pest of the loyalists of Johnstown. Let them dare to open their mouths to-day.” At this moment a man rode up hastily and addressed Sir John in a low tone. Sir John listened to him with a lower- ing brow, and then rising in his stirrups, addressed the men who followed him : “This loyal man says that three hundred Whigs have met at Caughnawaga for the purpose of raising a liberty-pole, the CoOMmicbooksseom