Therefore it was that we still counted ourselves Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley, and left our company in charge of John Sammons, who was to act in my stead until I came back.

"Four an' twenty of our company, with John Sammons still acting as captain, are within an hundred yards of this lodge,

John Sammons, the lad who was acting as captain in my absence, insisted that it was plainly the duty of every member of the company to do whatsoever he might in our behalf, and the result was that the lad had been in Cherry Valley no more than half an hour before every member of the company was armed and outfitted for the perilous venture.

John Sammons asked, and I understood from his tone that he was not inclined for the hazard.

the old man asked, sharply, and John Sammons replied: "All that we understand; but reckon on puttin' a goodly distance between us an' yonder encampment before to-morrow mornin'.

" I am free to admit that it was childish in any of us to hang back at such a moment, but, thanks to Colonel Willett, the matter was arranged as he suggested, Sergeant Corney, John Sammons, Jacob, and I going to the commandant's quarters, escorted by the colonel and the messenger who had been sent for us.

" Then I ran with all speed to my company, and, explaining to John Sammons my purpose, took with me half the number remaining under his command.

" "I had rather have a full hour of hot fightin' than such idleness, when we know that soon the bullets will be whistlin' around our ears," Jacob replied, and just then John Sammons came up, as he said: "I reckon they're goin' to bring their siege-guns with 'em this time.

Strain our eyes as we might, it was impossible to make so much as a guess regarding what could be the cause of the odd proceedings, and it was in my mind to go in search of Sergeant Corney to ask his opinion of the situation, when John Sammons cried, suddenly: "Look there!

John Sammons asked, his eyes opening wide in surprise.

I believe that for a moment he had it in his mind to throw the heavy portfolio away, willing to lose what he believed to be the most valuable of all the plunder that might be found, rather than miss the excitement of the chase; but, fortunately, just then John Sammons came limping back with a wound in the leg which had been inflicted by a savage whom he afterward succeeded in killing.

" "I s'pose I'll have to go," Sammons replied, with a sigh, and the sergeant made haste to add: "Of course you will, lad, an' I've got here that which will ensure you a warm reception by Colonel Gansevoort.

Sammons took up the bulky portfolio and limped back in the direction of the fort, the sergeant saying with a peculiar twinkle of the eyes as the lad passed beyond earshot: "Now I reckon there's nothin' to prevent us from goin' on so long as do the others.

"I believe he has it in mind to join General Arnold's force," John Sammons said, when the hour for the conference had come and passed without the sergeant's having shown himself, and the idea of such a possibility brought a strange sensation of loneliness to my heart.

When we were all together I put the matter before the lads to the best of my ability, asking each to say if he was minded to go home at once, or whether he would be willing to regularly enlist in the American army, and before any other could speak John Sammons made a suggestion which showed him to be a lad of rare good sense.

John Sammons was sent to bring up the new member of the company, and Sergeant Corney said, grimly, as he tried without avail to pucker his wrinkled face into a frown: "At this rate you'll soon lose the right to call yourselves Minute Boys, because this 'ere company is fast becomin' a refuge for the aged and outcast.

All this I tell to this notorious end, That you may use your Courtship with lesse care To your coy mistresses; As when we strike A goodly Sammon, with a little line, We doe not tugge to hale her up by force, For then our line wood breake, and our hooke lost; But let her carelesse play alongst the streame, As you had left her, and sheele drowne her selfe.

Never stirre if it be not a richer Caparison then my Lorde my Cosin wore at Tilt, for that was brodred with nothing but moone-shine ith the water, and this has Sammons in't; by heaven a most edible Caparison. Ru.

The famous violinist, Mr. ALBERT SAMMONS, has so far returned no final answer to the offer of the Crown of Sordinia, but it is believed that he cannot long remain mute to the touching appeal of the signatories.

D. Hitchcock, " " " W.H. Bishop, Amherst, Mass. " J.C. Klein, Stockbridge, Mich. Miss Gertrude M. Sammons, Wattsburgh, Pa. " Julia A. Sauntry, Burbank, Minn. " Sarah Humphrey, East Saginaw, Mich. " Annie L. Harwood, Oak Park, Ill. " Clara E. Walker, Lorain, O. " Nellie L. Ruddock, Hancock, Minn. Mrs. A.V. Whiting, Clearwater, Minn. " H.P. Kennedy, Jackson, Mich. " Wm.

First the soup; fish roasted and boiled; meats, sammon, fowls, etc....