{"product_id":"grandmother-s-story-of-bunker-hill-battle-as-she-saw-it-from-the-belfry-gb-21941","title":"Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n'T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers\nAll the achings and the quakings of \"the times that tried men's souls;\"\nWhen I talk of Whig and Tory, when I tell the Rebel story,\nTo you the words are ashes, but to me they're burning coals.\n\n\nI had heard the muskets' rattle of the April running battle;\nLord Percy's hunted soldiers, I can see their red coats still;\nBut a deadly chill comes o'er me, as the day looms up before me,\nWhen a thousand men lay bleeding on the slopes of Bunker's Hill.\n\n\r\n'T was a peaceful summer's morning, when the first thing gave us warning\r\nWas the booming of the cannon from the river and the shore:\r\n\"Child,\" says grandma, \"what's the matter, what is all this noise and clatter?\r\nHave those scalping Indian devils come to murder us once more?\"\n\n\r\nPoor old soul! my sides were shaking in the midst of all my quaking,\r\nTo hear her talk of Indians when the guns began to roar:\r\nShe had seen the burning village, and the slaughter and the pillage,\r\nWhen the Mohawks killed her father with their bullets through his door.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 21941 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Holmes, Oliver Wendell \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 26, 2007 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1809-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217999495325,"sku":"gb-21941-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/21941.jpg?v=1671462322","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/grandmother-s-story-of-bunker-hill-battle-as-she-saw-it-from-the-belfry-gb-21941","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}