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Show 6/ My Billy, the Patriot vVPaul Revere sent a messenger here saying Billy arrived at Reverend Clarke's parsonage a short time after he did. Then the two of them rode with Dr. Samuel Prescott toward Concord. •£hat was a little after midnight. They were stopped by a British Patrol out looking for deserters. Dr. Prescott's horse jumped a stone wall and went on. While the patrol was busy taking Paul Revere captive, $illy wheeled about and rode like a demon back to Lexington." "How was Mr. Revere able to send this news if he was captured?" "Those Redcoats decided they needed his horse worse than they needed him. They left him to walk back to Lexington. I expect he saw the beginning of the fighting on the Common there. "Why are the soldiers marching through the streets now?" "The British have sent for reinforcements. Please excuse me. I've got to get out of Boston. Now war has come my life won't be worth tuppence if I'm caught. Besides our men will need doctor si' He put his hand gently on my arm. "If anyone can figure a way to get back into Boston, Billy can. He's a clever lad. He's done a lot for the Patriot cause and I'm proud of him. All you can do is wait." As the day dragged on I kept walking and watching for Billy. About dusk, groups of soldiers appeared on the streets returning to homes where they were billeted. How different they looked from the night before. Most of them were without coats or hats or muskets. Some were limping, some moaning, some cursing. "Their once white breeches would never be clean |