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CC-H.775.033
27 Mar 1775:31 (535)
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Connecticut, Feb 19.
Justice, however,obliges me to except for the above account,
some few persons of "the fearful and unbelieving brood,"
whose imaginations is filled with scare-crows, and who dream
much of hangings, confiscations, royal standards, fleets,
armies, Gun, drum trumpet, blunderbuss, and thunder.
These people have some how or other had a revelation that
all Americans are cowards, and their enemies invincible. [4
lines] There was a noise in the air heard about a fortnight
ago, which did considerable execution among old women; being
as they aver, the second part of the same tune, which they
remember to have heard just before the last war. Several
balls of fire, meteors, and such like apparatus have
appeared to proper persons in various parts of the country;
particular, one in the form of a drum, (whether a kettle
drum, or one of the common train band drums I have not been
able to discover) which was seen to alight down somewhere in
Windsor, after beating a dead march through the air, while
it was falling. [6 lines]
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