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Rh not pause at the plantation to exchange news and opinions. Of these was Joe Tanopet, resplendent in a ruffled shirt of which he seemed very proud, and which, David suspected, would come to pieces were the Indian to try to remove it. In spite of the heat Tanopet wore his green waistcoat, for association with the English had convinced him  that discomfort and respectability were inseparable. He had no news of importance, or professed to have none, and said that he had  spent the month fishing in the Long Pond  beyond Natick. As proof of the assertion he brought eight fat bass, which Obid subsequently threw to the hogs, since, as he said,  they had been overlong from their native  element.

Word came from Boston that Daniel Henchman, the schoolmaster, had been chosen by the Council to be Captain of Infantry  and that able soldiers to the number of one  hundred were shortly to march under him  toward the south; and also that a company  of horse was forming under Captain Prentice. Nathan Lindall went up to Dedham one morning and returned late that night  with the tidings that the troops had left Boston the day before, and that with them had