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[Illustration: "HE FIRED, BUT MISSED ME."--PAGE 117]
New York The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd. 1922
Copyright, 1899, by the MacMillan Company.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899; February, 1908; October, 1910; September, 1913; November, 1916.
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Ben is born in Lexington 1737--Schools and Schoolfellows 1
They trap Muskrats--Bishop Hancock and his Grandson John 14
In which are Details of a Great Fox Hunt 30
Trading in those Days--Ben is apprenticed--The Enlisting Sergeant--Court Day at Concord 51
A Pauper's Funeral--Ben's Friend the Minister, and Ben's Victory in Wrestling 74
Tales from the Frontier--Mr. Tythingman and his Services 88
Ben and Amos join Rogers's Rangers and march to the West 100
In which the Rangers engage with the French and Indians 110
Lord Howe and his Death--The Loyalty of John Stark 120
The Fight at Fort Anne, and the Escape of Amos 142
Ben Comee Heap Big Paleface--Trapping Bob-cats in Primeval Woods 163
A Scouting Expedition in the Dead of Winter 187
Camp Discipline--Amherst's Angels--A Brush with the French, and the Loss of Captain Jacob 197
The Rangers to the Front--Captain Stark's Tale of Capture-- To attack the St. Francis Indians 208
Starvation--Drifting down the Ammonusuc--Fort No. 4, and Good Fortune at Last 241
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.