"Jiminy!" exclaimed Ned Morningstar, snatching off his mask and pulling a long face. "Somebody has—"
"Blundered," said Hen Rowe.
"Fools to the right of me,
Fools to the left of me,
Fools ev'ry side of me—
Oh, how they wondered!
"what's the use of being glum about it. I've an idea it serves us right. Three cheers for Lady Harriet. He's not such a fool as he looks."
"As we look, I think," said Roy Wheeler.
And then, like the jolly boys they really were, they gave the cheers with a will, and followed them up with a roar of laughter that wakened all the echoes for miles around.
GENERAL SCHUYLER AND THE TORIES.
BY BENSON J. LOSSING.
The Tories of the Revolution were the most bitter and annoying foes of the patriots who were struggling for their independence. The relation of the Whigs and Tories was that of belligerents in a civil war—cruel and uncompromising.