and in their turn encountered defeat. By this time Gray and others interposed, and for that day prevented further disturbance.

2. There was an end of the affair at the ropewalk, but not at the barracks, where the soldiers inflamed each other's passions, as if the honor of the regi

ment were tarnished. On Saturday they prepared bludgeons, and, being resolved to brave the citizens on Monday night, they forewarned their particular acquaintances not to be abroad. Without duly restraining his men, Carr, the lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-ninth, made complaint to the lieu-* tenant governor of the insult they had received.

3. The council, deliberating on Monday, seemed of opinion that the town would never be safe from quarrels between the people and the soldiers as long as soldiers should be quartered among them. In the present case the owner of the ropewalk gave satisfaction by dismissing the workmen complained of.

4. The officers should, on their part, have kept their men within the barracks after nightfall; instead of it, they left them to roam the streets. Hutchinson should have insisted on measures of precaution, but he too much wished the favor of all who had influence at Westminster.

5. Evening came on. The young moon was shining in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new-fallen snow. Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, making a parade of valor, challenging resistance, and striking the inhabitants indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cutlasses.

6. A band which poured out from Murray's Bar

racks in Brattle Street, armed with clubs, cutlasses, and bayonets, provoked resistance, and a fray ensued. Ensign Maul, at the gate of the barrack yard, cried to the soldiers, "Turn out, and I will stand by you; kill them; stick them; knock them down; run your bayonets through them." And one soldier after another leveled a firelock and threatened to "make a lane" through the crowd.

7. Just before nine, as an officer crossed King Street, now State Street, a barber's lad cried after him, "There goes a mean fellow who hath not paid my master for dressing his hair;" on which the sentinel stationed at the westerly end of the customhouse, on the corner of King Street and Exchange Lane, left his post and, with his musket, gave the boy a stroke on the head that made him stagger and cry for pain.

8. The street soon became clear, and nobody troubled the sentry, when a party of soldiers issued violently from the main guard, their arms glittering in the moonlight, and passed on hallooing, "Where are they? where are they? Let them come." Presently twelve or fifteen more, uttering the same cries, rushed from the south into King Street, and so by way of Cornhill, toward Murray's Barracks.

9. "Pray, soldiers, spare my life!" cried a boy of twelve, whom they met. "No, no, I'll kill you

all," answered one of them, and with his cutlass knocked him down. They abused and insulted several persons at their own doors, and others in the street, "running about like madmen in a fury," crying "Fire!" which seemed their watchword, and "Where are they? knock them down." Their outrageous behavior occasioned the ringing of the bell at the head of King Street.

1. Massacre, employed, repulsed, defied, encountered, disturbance, tarnished, inflamed, bludgeons, precaution, indiscriminately, outrageous, interposed.

2. In what year was this massacre? Where? What is "a ropewalk"? Why were the soldiers disliked? Why were "soldiers quartered among" the citizens? Who was Hutchinson? Who had “influence at Westminster"? What" council" is meant? What is a customhouse"?

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LIV. THE BOSTON MASSACRE.

PART II.

1. The citizens, whom the alarm set in motion, came out with canes and clubs; and partly by the interference of well-disposed officers, partly by the courage of Crispus Attucks, a mulatto, and some others, the fray at the barracks was soon over. the citizens, the prudent shouted, "Home! home!" others, it was said, called out, "Huzza for the main

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guard! there is the nest ;" but the main guard was not molested the whole evening.

2. A body of soldiers came up Royal Exchange Lane, crying, "Where are the cowards?" and, brandishing their arms, passed through King Street. From ten to twenty boys came after them, asking, "Where are they? where are they?" "There is the soldier who knocked me down," said the barber's boy, and they began pushing one another toward the sentinel. He loaded and primed his musket.

3. "The lobster is going to fire," cried a boy. Waving his piece about, the sentinel pulled the trigger. "If you fire, you must die for it," said Henry Knox, who was passing by. "I don't care," replied the sentry; "if they touch me, I'll fire." "Fire!" shouted the boys, for they were persuaded he could not do it without leave from a civil officer; and a young fellow spoke out, "We will knock him down for snapping," while they whistled through their fingers and huzzaed.

4. "Stand off," said the sentry, and shouted aloud, "Turn out, main guard!" "They are killing the sentinel," reported a servant from the customhouse, running to the main guard. "Turn out! why don't you turn out?" cried Preston, who was captain of the day, to the guard. "He appeared in a great flutter of spirits," and "spoke to them roughly."

5. A party of six, two of whom, Kilroi and Mont