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Births Deaths a matter of search.html">search and conjecture.
When the Hessian troops marched from Saratoga to Boston, to take ship
ragged, and ill fed,--and having much with them in the form.html">form of plate and
the money.html">money sent from England for their hire, they were in constant fear
to regard them with an unfavorable eye.html">eye. On reaching Dalton,
valuables into a howitzer, which they buried in the woods, intending
recover it. An Indian had silently followed them for a long distance,
bivouacs, and he marked the route by blazes on the trees; but if he saw
knowledge of the hiding-place was lost. For years the populace kept
to the woods, but without result. In about the year 1800 the supposed
before, nothing.html">nothing rewarded the search.
A tree of unknown age--the Old Elm--stood on Boston Common until within
lightning-stroke, was a gallows in the last century, and Goody Glover
boughs creaked together, it was said that dark shapes might be seen
glee. On a gusty autumn evening in 1776 a muffled form presented
notorious miser had enough recovered from the fear created by the
telling him of something that in life it had buried at the foot of the
for he would have risked his soul for money, but on arriving at his
set down his lantern and began to dig. Though he turned up many a rood
nothing. Strange noises overhead--for the wind was high and the twigs
his back from time to time, and he was about to return, half in anger,
stood before him. The mien was threatening, the nose had reddened and
the gold monster grew more awful, the stare of his eye in the starlight
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