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Wemple sold his buckwheat on promise of pay in paper dollars, and we ar-bush

Distant neighbors cahbors, still more distant, that Sir John had retreated northward froa, toward Edward; that the Tories threatened Ballston; that Indians had been seen near Galway; that the garrison at Schenectady had been warned to take the field against St Leger; that on Chareat fleet, and hishi Ross and Butler, except that strange vessels had been seen leaving Bucks Island

The tension, the wearing anxiety, and harrowing chagrin that I had been left here forgotten, waxed to a fever that drove me all day restlessly from field to field, fro the road for sign of a er to set ht, coldin late October, when to keep war, watching the cri fro the stiffened earth, and patches of it still lingered in shady places Oaks were brown, elms yellow; birches had shed their leaves; and already the forest stretched bluish and misty, set with flecks of scarlet maple and the darker patches of the pine

On that early , just after sunrise, I sensed a hint of snow in the wind that blew out of the purple north; and the pren ended

In an ugly and sullenat the blackened weeds cut by the frost, when, hearing the sound of horses' feet on the hill, I rose and stood on tiptoe to see whoat such a pace

People ran out to the rear to look; nearer and nearer caallop, then a rider rushed into view, leaning far forward, waving his arm; and a far cry sounded: "Express, ho! News for Captain Renault!"

An express! I sprang to the edge of the road as the horse thundered by; and the red-faced rider, plastered with : "Butler is in the Valley! Turn out! Turn out!" sweeping past in a ind of dust and flying stones

As I caught up the packet frorass Farris ran out and fired his -drawn, h the forest