Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 47: what you’re looking at

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ANOTHER VICTORY. 45 British Genera. called feints—the fruits of his peculiar genius in warfare—ruinous to the sufferers, but vastly amusing to the ‘ otter. ® “ Qur force,” said Horace, “is insufficient for all points, therefore we can only guard one or two, and we have no doubt that when.he has burnt and pillaged all that is conven- iently within ‘his reach, and has so exasperated the people he is making homeless that they may turn upon him in their madness—that he will concentra.¢ his incendiaries and march ' npon West Point or Morristown. I am posted between the two, so that I shall have the satisfaction of soon avenging ‘At the very moment that Isabelle was reading this epistle, Horace was upon the field of blood. The enemy under Knyp- hausen had advanced to Springfield, pillaged the village, and burnt almost every dwelling; but here they encountered retribution. The homeless inhabitants joined the troops ahd fought desperately for the recovery of what was still in the hands of these plunderers. As Horace was moving to the =~ attack, he perceived & man mounted upon a horse of the enemy, as if he were awaiting his approach, As he dashed “Captain Blythe, I am agin your soldier, I ha’ got a horse. His rider—one 0” the enemy—left his saddle at my ‘order,” and he touched significantly the pistol holster, “And the brute ha’ consented to fight on the side o’ liberty.” It was the gallant Gideon who thus spoke. Haying slain a British dragoon, he had pressed his steed into the service of the Americans, and now urged-him to the combat against his old associates. | . ea: armies were. REF is bereft inhabitants of the village rendered material aid to the American troops. The armed themselves with every weapon that could ma:m or kill and fought with frantic rage ; and even the boys, affected by | the wailing of their mothers and sisters, seized upon the arms of every man who fell, and joined fearlessly in the carnage. The veteran troops of England began to feel the severity of "Vengeance, when a cry arose among the Americans that their rtridge-paper was all gone _ The indomitable Gideon, fruit Bion. replied with the cheer of: | comicbooks.COmn _