Show some fighting Q bakers many of ilia early quakers are preserved in phia says the youths companion 0 to show how even under pe R ns rule tile impulses of human nature struggled aplist 11 their rigid JAWN of duty and submission not a few of the young men of quaker daml lies served ili the revolutionary army and in ilia navy in 1312 an d wore on the field their broad brimmed lists and shad bellied coats it is said that one of these couig fighting quakers as they were called met his father on the L treet on his return home tile old man laid his arm on his arm saying the wool in thy coat was sheared from my sheep and woven axt thy mother s loom yet there is filoon on ili and the blood is thy blood boldly replied the young man if thou been 20 instead of 60 I 1 thou too have fought under stammered the old man it may be so Zacha riall thou haast better go in to thy din ver A well known story is that of a r id who was ili a sailing I 1 boarded by a british gang in 1811 lie pawl th c deck with folded arms during tazi fight until he saw one of t lie assail 10 ta climb ing tile deak by means of a cable friend ducat thou want that rope he said cal ly hurrying up kui fe in band thou have it and he out it the man dropped into the sea A better authenticated story is that of a gravo old quaker two of whose sons went into the late bivil war without his kno ledge gest son was fiew edt AS WAS ai every other young man t bat time from maine to florida with the wish to give his life the cause which he believed just ue had A 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 W he did n 0 t to go U without his fathers consent ile took to make his pr ra conj rather y in fathers eight laid out his of fibers uniform and tried to attract attention but all in vain resort lie himself antho room where tile old mail va g up nod down and began polishing his sword his father watched him with a face growing paler and with dim eyes at last lie went up to the you g mail and said quietly sam uel it thee thinks thee must of those tools buy the best and I 1 will pay fir it Samuel |