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An invalid soldier of Colonel Livingston's regi across the street, apparently vastly aon; and I crossed over to hinify

"Why, the town is in ahis shattered ar away at his cob-pipe "Since April, when them red-devils of Brant's struck Cherry Valley for the second time, and cleaned up some score and odd women and children, these here thrifty Dutchmen in Albany have been ready to pack up and pull foot at the first breath o' foul news"

"But," said I, "what news has alarmed them now?"

"Hey? Scairt 'ear-bush So at Torlock, some say Little Falls We heard last week that Schenectady was threatened It may be true, for there's a pest o' Tories loose in the outlying county, and them there bloody Iroquois skulk around the farms and shoot little children in their own dooryards"

"Do you believe there is any danger in Albany?" I asked incredulously

He shrugged his shoulders, nursing his bandaged arht find Colonel Willett, and he said that a scout was now out toward Johnstown, and that Willett led it This was all he knew, all the infor the dusty, steep streets to the Half-Moon Tavern, I called in the stolid Dutch landlord, requesting infor at all except that a nu up because an express had coht before with news that a body of Tories and Indians had attacked Cobleskill, taken a Mr Warner, and murdered the entire family of a Captain Dietz--father, irl, Jessie Dean

Observing the horror hich I received the news he shook his head, pulled at his long pipe for a few htful silence, and said: "What shall we do, sir? They kill us everywhere Better die at home than in the bush I think a man's as safe here in Albany as in any place, unless he quits all and leaves affairs to go to ruin to skulk in one o' the valley forts But they've even burned Stanwix now, and the blockhouses are poor defense against Iroquois fire-arrows If I had a wife I'd take her to Johnstown Fort; it's built of stone, they say Besides, Marinus Willett is there I wish to God he were here!"