Rangers and march to the West 100

CHAPTER IX

In which the Rangers engage with the French and Indians 110

CHAPTER X

Lord Howe and his Death--The Loyalty of John Stark 120

CHAPTER XI

Fort Ticonderoga and the Assault 131

CHAPTER XII

The Fight at Fort Anne, and the Escape of Amos 142

CHAPTER XIII

Ben Comee Heap Big Paleface--Trapping Bob-cats in
Primeval Woods 163

CHAPTER XIV

A Scouting Expedition in the Dead of Winter 187

CHAPTER XV

Camp Discipline--Amherst's Angels--A Brush with the
French, and the Loss of Captain Jacob 197

CHAPTER XVI

The Rangers to the Front--Captain Stark's Tale of Capture--
To attack the St. Francis Indians 208

CHAPTER XVII

March to the Village--The Retreat 224

CHAPTER XVIII

Starvation--Drifting down the Ammonusuc--Fort No. 4, and
Good Fortune at Last 241

BEN COMEE

CHAPTER I

BEN IS BORN IN LEXINGTON 1737--SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLFELLOWS

If you have occasion to pass through or to visit Lexington, be sure to
put up at the tavern about a mile below Lexington Common on a little
knoll near the main road.

In front of it stand two large elms, from one of which hangs the tavern
sign. It is the best tavern in the place. You will find there good beds,
good food, and a genial host. The landlord is my cousin, Colonel William
Munroe, a younger brother of my old friend Edmund.

Sit with him under the trees. William will gladly tell you of the fight.
Lord Percy's reenforcements met the retreating British soldiers near
the tavern. Percy and Pitcairn had a consultation in the bar-room over
some grog, which John Raymond mixed for them, for John took care of the
tavern that day. After they departed, the soldiers entered and helped
themselves freely to liquor from the barrels in the shop. Some of their
officers knocked the spigots from the barrels and let the liquor run
away on the floor. The drunken soldiers became furious. They fired off
their guns in the house. You can still see a bullet hole in the ceiling.

William will show you the doorway where poor John Raymond, the cripple,
was shot down by the soldiers, a