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8 been given her by Master Lepper, host of the Duke of Cumberland inn. The bodice was purple and gold, and the gown itself was open in front to show a black silk petticoat with silver trimming. Then came the green silk stockings, and embroidered shoes of morocco. Verily she would, after being dressed, look fit to dance before the king, if it had not so chanced that just then the colony, or certain inhabitants of it, boasted that they knew no king.

Sarah Lamb, daughter of Anthony, the maker of mathematical instruments, was to bear Dorothy company on her sight-seeing, for her mother and Mistress Dean were to visit the common together, each acting as protector to the other, since their husbands were to parade in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty.

And all this rejoicing over what his gracious majesty, King George, was pleased to term treason, was to take place with General Howe and his troops only a few miles away, for the royal army which evacuated Boston, had been encamped on Staten Island since the third day of the month. The good people of New York could plainly see the ships of war and the transports lying at anchor, and hear with more distinctness than was sometimes pleasant, the morning and evening guns. In fact, Dorothy had heard her father say that spies had been sent into the city from the