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134 of Sir William Howe from Halifax, with the Boston veterans and reinforcements."

From this day on, during many weeks, there was so much of excitement and fear for those who favored the Cause, that even the girls ceased to speak of the man whose life they had saved.

That the city would be attacked soon, every one understood, and there seemed but little hope the American forces could successfully oppose the king's army and navy combined.

There were no longer any Tory-rides to be seen, and now it was the Whigs, or those who had celebrated the adoption of the Declaration, who were obliged to speak with caution.

Then came the battle on Long Island, in which both Master Dean and Master Lamb took part, although not regularly enlisted men, and Mistress Lamb and Sarah came to make a long visit to the family on Hanover square.

As a matter of fact, during all this while Dorothy and Sarah were not allowed on the streets even in the daytime; but old Scip came and went at his own sweet will, and, as may be supposed, brought all the news that could be gathered at the taverns or market-places.

The rumble of heavy guns might have been heard almost continuously from early morning until late in the afternoon of the twenty-seventh of August, and in the living room of Master