The Minute Boys of York Town

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Otis James. The Minute Boys of York Town

CHAPTER I. TWO YOUNG VIRGINIANS

CHAPTER II. SILVER HEELS

CHAPTER III. UNCLE 'RASMUS'S ADVICE

CHAPTER IV. THE TOWN OF YORK

CHAPTER V. OUR PRISONER

CHAPTER VI. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE

CHAPTER VII. MORGAN, THE SPY

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SAUL

CHAPTER IX. SUSPENSE

CHAPTER X. NEWS OF SAUL

CHAPTER XI. A DESPERATE VENTURE

CHAPTER XII. SAUL'S OPPORTUNITY

CHAPTER XIII. THE SIEGE

CHAPTER XIV. AN UGLY SITUATION

CHAPTER XV. FORAGING

CHAPTER XVI. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT

CHAPTER XVII. OUR BLUNDER

CHAPTER XVIII. TRAPPED

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It was for a moment as if I could scarcely credit my senses. The idea that any one, even those belonging to the plantation, should bestride my own colt, my little Silver Heels, as I had named her!

She had been given to me when a baby, and no hand save mine had touched her, except when some of the negroes would rub her coat to silken glossiness in order to curry favor with me. Now she was being ridden and roughly handled by a red-faced private of Simcoe's Queen's Rangers!

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I could not have said how long little Frenchie remained absent, for neither Saul nor I took heed to the passage of time as we lay there amid the foliage eating our hearts out with sorrow.

Certain it is, however, that the afternoon was well spent before we saw him coming up the road, and our surprise can well be imagined when we learned that he had with him as companion none other than Horry Sims.

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