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PATRIOTISM.
A Yankee gentleman, convoying a British friend
around to view the different objects of attraction in the
vicinity of Boston, brought him to Bunker Hill. They
stood looking at the splendid shaft, when the Yankee
said,
“That is the place where Warren fell.”
“Ah!” replied the Englishman, evidently not posted
up in local historical matters; “did it hurt him
much?”
The native looked at him, with the expression of fourteen
Fourth of Julys in his countenance. “Hurt him!”
said he, “he was killed, sir.”
“Ah! he was, eh?” said the stranger, still eying the
monument, and computing its height, in his own mind,
layer by layer; “well, I should think he would have
been, to fall so far.”
The native tore his hair, but it gave him a good opportunity
to enlarge upon the glorious events connected
with the hill, and the benefits therefrom flowing to our
somewhat extensive country, and he soon talked himself
into good-humor.
Keep your eyes wide open for the truth; let it come
down into your mind like the sunlight, to illumine all of
its dark corners. “Buy the truth, and sell it not”
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