Beadle's Dime Novels No. 13 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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20—=Oi« “CEDAR SWAMP‘ OR, WILD NAt’s BRIGADE. penetrate througli the pines and station the whole force 80 as to surround. his unsuspecting countrymen, - as, ‘Having settled his mind on this point, Timothy took the lead; mounted on a fine horse furnished him for the occasion, —his..own being too fatigued by his morning’s journey to permit him to take the field with it.. . | John Vale was just sitting down to his dinner when the boy Simon reached his house, bearing the im with which he was intrusted. John immedi the lad, for he had often seen him before, had some very special news to tell, he roge followed the lad into the yard. , “Tf you have any thing to tell, speak out, Simon.” - '“ Father sent me here to tell you to warn every one not to go to the meeting in the pines back of Clineman’s ‘mill.” '“ Indeed,” responded John, with an accent of astonishment. “Can you tell me how your father learned a meeti be held there ? I did not know of it myself until late last night.” “Timothy Turner found out about it, and rode over to Charleston last night. He had a talk with General Clinton, and the general is going to send forty or fifty soldiers to take you all. Sampson, the servant of the general, heard Turner telling General Clinton about it; so he told father, and father sent me down here to tell you and Nat Ernshaw. You are to tell the rest, so the Britishers will have their ride for their pains.” ‘ “ Your father has done well, and yow’re a patriotic fellow to take so long a. ride to warn us of our danger. Come into the house and get some dinner, then we'll go over to Ernshaw’s together.” : Simon was tired, and a good hearty meal was most acceptable. When he had done, the young man took down his rifle and powder-horn from the Looks, and swung them over his shoul- der, then, turning to his mother, he remarked 1 “ Perhaps you will not see me again to-day, perhaps not for weeks. From what I hear, there is a good-chance for ug to begin the campaign, and when we once take to the field, there is no telling how long we shall be compelled to keep it, Re- member, though, that I am fighting, as 18 my duty, for my sountry; and if I die, that.I dia im a good cause.” | 7, portant message ately recognized Judging that he from his seat and ng was to comicloooks.com