The minute boys of Boston (1910) (14752762412)

Identifier: minuteboysofbost00otis (find matches)
Title: The minute boys of Boston
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Otis, James, 1848-1912
Subjects: United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Juvenile fiction
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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keready for hoisting the mast and sail before haulingher out into view of any passer-by. After making certain that we had not been ob-served, the three of us let ourselves down betweenthe rotten timbers into the skiff, and while Archieand Silas took up the oars, I made ready for hoist-ing the spar, which was of no great weight or size. Now then! Archie whispered. It is not sodark but that we can be seen a long distance away,and until we are sheltered by the shore of Charles-town, it will not be well that we indulge in muchspeaking. He gave \vay on the oar at the same moment;Silas did the same, and we were no more than wellout from under the old timbers than I saw, evenwhile raising the short spar, one of the guard-boatswithin less than an hundred feet. It was the only time we had ever come upon thekings men in the dozen or more voyages we hadmade from Boston town simply through a spirit ofbravado, and my heart leaped into my mouth, so tospeak, for it seemed certain we were about to be
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I COULD HAVE TOSSED MY HAT ABOARD THEIR CRAFT.