last mo.
how was I to know that they called them minit men because they was lible
to get shot any minit. & here I am riteing to you in a tent outside
Boston & any minit a canon ball is lible to knock me for a continental
loop & my house has been burnt & Prudence is up in Conk Cord with her
sister the one who married that short skate dum bell Collins who has
owed me 2 lbs. for a yr. & 1/2 well Ethen it never ranes but it pores &
you can be glad you are liveing in a nice quiet place like Philly.

Well the other night I and Prudence was sound asleep when I heard some
body banging at the frt. door & I stuck my head out the up stares window
& I says who are you & he says I am Paul Revear & I says well this is a
h--ll of a time to be wakeing a peaceiful man out of their bed what do
you want & he says the Brittish are comeing & I says o are they well
this is the 19 of April not the 1st & I was going down stares to plank
him 1 but he had rode away tow wards Lexington before I had a chanct
& as it turned out after words the joke was on me O. K. Well who is it
says Prudence Charley Davis again because you might as well come back
to bed if it is & I says no it was some Boston smart alick trying to be
funny & I guess they are soar down there on acct. what hapened to their
prize fish up here last mo. & are trying to get even do you know a Paul
Revear & she says yes there was a boy at school named Paul Revear who
was crazy about me was he dark well Ethen if all the fellos she says has
been crazy about her was layed end to end they would circum navygate the
globe twicet & I says no he was yello & that had her stopt so we went
back to sleep only I couldn't help laffing over the way I had slipt it
across. About Revear being yello. Well along a bout A. M. there was a
lot of gun firing tow wards Lexington & Prudence grabed me & says whets
the shooting for & I says probably that fello Revear who was so crazy
a bout you has got funny oncet to oft ten & it will teach them Boston
doodes a lesson. Well Ethen I was wrong for oncet & the firing kept
getting worse & I hitcht up old Bessy & drove over to Lexington Bessy is
are horse & Ethen there was the h--ll to pay there because the g--d
d--m Brittish redcotes had marcht nup from Boston & had fired on the
Lexington fellos & Charley Davis had been shot dead & a lot of the other
fellos was wooned it & they said you had better get your wife to the
h--ll out of your house because the g--d d--m Britt