The Silver Medal
by John Townsend Trowbridge (9781150317187)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: Lee and Shepard Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE FOUR WHITE SACKS. As the boys bad taken nothing with them to carrj" off their booty in, Benton believed that they reallj meant only to drink some of John's cider, and help themselves, as they said, to " a few trifles." But now he found how deplorably he had been deceived. What astonished and alarmed him, when Seth Cavoort let him into the house, was the sight of three white sacks standing by the entry door. Each had a knot in one end, and a big bunch of some very irregularly shaped materials in the other. " What are those ? " Bent asked. " Them's piller-cases," said Cavoort, with a grin. " And the boys are fillin' another, so there'll be one apiece for us to lug. I tell ye, it's a rich go " " What's in them ? " Bent asked. " All sorts of things, -- you'll see when we overhaul 'em. They're lookin' for silver now, but I believe all the silver has been carried out of the house." " You took the pillow-cases off the beds ?" said Bent, still looking ruefully at the tied-up sacks. " Of course; where should we get 'em ? " Seth replied, touching one with his foot and causing a slight rattling sound in the contents. " Luke was for taking a sheet and making one big load; but Willand I said the piller-cases would be better. Here comes Will with the cider " Will was bringing up from the cellar a couple of bottles. " We had to break open the wine-closet to get 'em," he said. " Luke 's filling the other pillowcase with bottles. We're going to save lugging by drinking these." Luke came up with the fourth white sack, which looked very weighty, as he sw...

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