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One of these, were he living, might interpret events of the hidden history of the struggle for liberty in a very dramatic way.
Such an interpreter for the purpose of historic fiction we have made in Dennis O’Hay, a jolly Irishman of a liberty-loving heart.
In a brief fiction for young people we can only illustrate how interesting a larger study of this subject of the secret service of the Revolution at this place might be made. We shall be glad if we can so interest the young reader in the topic as to lead him to follow it in solid historic reading in his maturer years.
Hezekiah Butterworth.
BROTHER JONATHAN
CHAPTER I
TWO QUEER MEN MEET
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Dennis O’Hay, a young Irishman, and a shipwrecked mariner, had been landed at Norwich, Conn., by a schooner which had come into the Thames from Long Island Sound. A lusty, hearty, clear-souled sailor was Dennis; the sun seemed to shine through him, so open to all people was his free and transparent nature.
“The top of the morning to everybody,” he used to say, which feeling of universal brotherhood was quite in harmony with the new country he had unexpectedly found, but of which he had heard much at sea.