It was a quiet and orderly crowd that listened to the speeches of Josiah Quincy, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, demanding calmly but firmly that the soldiers be forthwith removed from the city.
The famous John Hancock cut a great figure in Boston those days.

It is not surprising that Jack was impressed by his grandeur for he had entered the meeting-house in a scarlet velvet cap and a blue damask gown lined with velvet and strode to the platform with a dignity even above his garments.

As he faced about the boy did not fail to notice and admire the white satin waistcoat and white silk stockings and red morocco slippers.

Mr.Quincy made a statement which stuck like a bur in Jack Irons' memory of that day and perhaps all the faster because he did not quite understand it.

The speaker said: "The dragon's teeth have been sown." The chairman asked if there was any citizen present who had been on the scene at or about the time of the shooting.