Tales From a Revolution: Massachusetts
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Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 194
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 194
Arthur Leary thought that his part in the Revolution ended when his generals surrendered their army to the Americans after the Battle of Saratoga. However, political maneuvering at the highest levels of British and American government would leave the British army marching across the landscape for years to come... unless he could find a way out.
Arthur Leary bent and picked another stone out of the mud where the farmer's plow had revealed it, tossing it onto the sledge that he pulled behind himself. Where the rocks all came from, he could not imagine, as it seemed impossible that there could be any left. The tidy rock walls bounding the field in which he labored seemed to bear witness to the removal of what must have been tons of stone from just this section of muddy soil.
READ MOREThinking of the weight of the stone in the walls already only made the sledge seem heavier as he yanked it into motion again. Noting his progress by his position relative to the tree that stood on the far side of the boundary, he decided it was time to empty the sledge again before continuing to add to the load upon it.
He dragged the sledge to the spot at the edge of the field where the products of his prior passes were already roughly piled, and dropped its rope before trudging back to start tossing rocks off the mud-spattered platform. The mindless, repetitive motions of lifting, swinging, and releasing each stone in turn gave him plenty of time to reflect on just how he'd come to be an ordinary laborer on a New-England farm.
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