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The old man marched down the street with such a
swagger as he evidently believed befitting a
soldier. 27

"Is it all right, Corporal?" Isaac asked timidly. 57

"Silence in the ranks!" the Colonel said sternly. 104

"But the Corporal wouldn't lie," Isaac said
solemnly. 114

Before he could speak, Colonel Allen cried: "I
order you instantly to surrender, in the name of
the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." 168

"So the Fort has been taken by our People,"
Captain Baker cried, clasping the messenger by the
hand. 232

CORPORAL 'LIGE'S RECRUIT.

CHAPTER I.

RECRUITING.

There was great excitement among the citizens of the town of Pittsfield
in the province of Massachusetts on the first day of May in the year
1775.

Master Edward Mott and Noah Phelps, forming a committee appointed by the
Provincial Assembly of Connecticut, had arrived on the previous evening
charged with an important commission, the making known of which had so
aroused the inhabitants of the peaceful settlement that it was as if the
reports of the muskets fired at Lexington and Concord were actually
ringing in their ears.

These two gentlemen had with them a following of sixteen men, equipped
as if for battle, and the arrival of so large an armed body had aroused
the curiosity of the good people until all were painfully eager to learn
the reason for what seemed little less than an invasion.

When it was whispered around that Master Mott and Phelps had,
immediately upon their arrival, inquired for Colonel James Easton and
Master John Brown, and were even then closeted with those citizens, the
more knowing ones predicted that this coming had much to do with the
warlike preparations that were making in Boston and New York, designed
to put a check upon the unlawful doings of his majesty the king.

When morning came, that is to say, on this first day of May, it was
generally understood throughout the settlement that the Provincial
Assembly of Connecticut had agreed upon a plan to seize the munitions of
war at Ticonderoga for the use of that body of men known as the American
army, then gathered at Cambridge and Roxbury in the province of
Massachusetts.

The gossips of