Show J k WHO DROVE THE BRITISH OUT OOT OF or NEW YORK in one of the little villages of west chester cheater ch ester county lived an old fello feilo felloe V somewhat find of his glass toddy and of hangin hanging Z t around the barroom bar room of the village taverns to hear hev the gossip and occasionally indulge indulge 12 and ana sometimes to an excess of which he was afterwards ashamed dewent he went bythe by the name otil ofil kofold oid old sam and was really a very entertaining personage he had seen geni washington and was according to his own story th ther theT cause of the british evacuating the city come sam some village tavern lounger woud would say bay tell us about your driving the british out of new york well now alil squire u ire lre I 1 dont exactly say that I 1 did do it but give you the facts and you can draw your own conclusions mou zou pu see the british was in new york and I 1 ant knew and we all felt that they had been there ong elou enough h and for one I 1 was determined they be there any longer one after we had been talking about it for ame isme time tire before bollig to bed I 1 said to our focks 11 1 I shall ride to the city in the morning there before daybreak and I 1 shall shail go 0 armeda I 1 went right out to tte the the stable with a landem three hours before daylight saddled our old oid white mare put two loaded pistols in the holsters of the leand took my fathers sword Nv ord Ora that he carried at bunker hill and angot I 1 got gob into new naw york early in the mornin gand he B british W I 1 h had lefi left they had dihe city do you mean to say 1 I mean to aa sa 4 they had retreated gone run away nome nour 1 I 1 dont mean to say that the british knew knet mt I 1 was coming coming P but I 1 do say that it looked very dery ely much like ij itil lin in england under the danish kings kingg the d delivery el av 0 of f a drinkin drinking t horn born was a common m fery e IV of conveying property properly it is stated iba ina harthe hat t TR the A estate of pusey in barkshire Birk shire is still headly that title in modern time estates are more apt to slip from their owners hands toa toh than to come into them throy a horn |