While they were eating they heard that a company of British soldiers who were encamped near the Presbyterian Meeting-House had beaten their drums on Sunday so that no worshiper could hear the preaching.
"And the worst of it is we are compelled to furnish them food and quarters while they insult and annoy us," said a minister who sat at the table.
After supper Jack and Solomon went out for a walk.

They heard violent talk among people gathered at the street corners.

They soon overtook a noisy crowd of boys and young men carrying clubs.

In front of Murray's Barracks where the Twenty-Ninth Regiment was quartered, there was a chattering crowd of men and boys.

Some of them were hooting and cursing at two sentinels.