Fellows, Henry Parker · Boston, Cupples, Upham and company · leaf 45
the hemlocks near the bridge. Two rude stones,peering just above the ground within a scant enclosure, 42 BOATING TRIPS. which mark their resting-place, tell a dumb story of painand woe long past. How easy to call up the scene ofconflict! On the south bank the company of red-coatedsoldiers idling on… … eager, and nervous, it may be, still bravely approachingthe crisis. Then came a stray bullet from the Britons,followed by a volley that killed Davis and Hosmer, andthen the fire of the Americans, after which an indiscrim-inate loading and firing until the British retired to thetown, leaving the two…
Boats and boating · Rivers
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