"We might as well get ready for it." These words, coming from his father, gave him a shock of surprise.

He began to think of the effect of war on his own fortunes.
3 Solomon sent his furs to market and went to work on the farm of John Irons and lived with the family.

The boy returned to school.

After the hay had been cut and stacked in mid-summer, they were summoned to Boston to testify in the trial of Preston.

They left in September taking with them a drove of horses.
"It will be good for Jack," John Irons had said to his wife.