The Minute Boys of Boston

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Otis James. The Minute Boys of Boston

CHAPTER I. WHY WE WERE ENROLLED

CHAPTER II. RAISING A COMPANY

CHAPTER III. THE WAR BEGUN

CHAPTER IV. THE PRISONER

CHAPTER V. SUSPICIOUS INFORMATION

CHAPTER VI. A CLOUDY NIGHT

CHAPTER VII. THE SUMMONS

CHAPTER VIII. HOG ISLAND

CHAPTER IX. ON SPECIAL DUTY

CHAPTER X. ON BREED'S HILL

CHAPTER XI. THE RETREAT

CHAPTER XII. IN BOSTON TOWN

CHAPTER XIII. GRAVE DOUBTS

CHAPTER XIV. THE SECRET PASSAGE

CHAPTER XV. AN AWKWARD CAPTURE

CHAPTER XVI. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

CHAPTER XVII. HIRAM'S VENTURE

CHAPTER XVIII. TURNING THE TRICK

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That which Silas proposed startled and at the same time surprised me. Of course there was no good reason why we lads should not be banded together in the service of the colony, and yet it seemed a forward thing to do, thus to ape our elders.

Archie, however, was greatly taken with the idea from the start, and Silas had hardly more than finished speaking when he cried, incautiously loud as it appeared to me:

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Now after that think you we loitered in the work of enrolling the Minute Boys? So eager were we to set about it that I believe we left the kindly doctor with but scant ceremony, running into the open air like so many sheep set free.

Chance, or some evil fortune, decreed that the first lad we should meet after having left Master Warren's house, was that same Seth Jepson whom I was opposed to counting as a comrade, and Silas, eager to gain the first recruit for our company of Minute Boys, hailed him in a friendly fashion.

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