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So , through the night , Paul Revere rode toward Concord . At every farmhouse and every village he repeated his call . The alarm quickly spread . Guns were fired . Bells were rung . The people for miles around were roused as though a fire were raging . The king's soldiers were surprised to find everybody awake along the road . They were angry because their plans had been discovered . When they reached Concord , they burned the courthouse there . At Lexington , not far from Concord , there was a sharp fight in which several men were killed . This , in history , is called the Battle of Lexington . It was the beginning of the war called the Revolutionary War . But the king's soldiers did not find the gunpowder . They were glad enough to march back without it . All along the road the farmers were waiting for them . It seemed as if every man in the country was after them . And they did not feel themselves safe until they were once more in Boston . THE BOY AND THE WOLF In France there once lived a famous man who was known as the Marquis de Lafayette . [ Footnote : Mar'quis de La fa yette ' . ] When he was a little boy his mother called him Gilbert . Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great - grandfather had all been brave and noble men . He was very proud to think of this , and he wished that he might grow up to be like them . His home was in the country not far from a great forest . Often , when he was a little lad , he took long walks among the trees with his mother . " Mother , " he would say , " do not be afraid . I am with you , and I will not let anything hurt you . " One day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest . Men said that it was a very large wolf and that it had killed some of the farmers ' sheep . " How I should like to meet that wolf , " said little Gilbert . He was only seven years old , but now all his thoughts were about the savage beast that was in the forest . " Shall we take a walk this morning ? " asked his mother . " Oh , yes ! " said Gilbert . " Perhaps we may see that wolf among the trees . But don't be afraid . " His mother smiled , for she felt quite sure that there was no danger . They did not go far into the woods . The mother sat down in the shade of a tree and began to read in a new book which she had bought the day before . The boy played on the grass near by . The sun was warm . The bees were buzzing among the flowers . The small birds were singing softly . Gilbert looked up from his play and saw that his mother was very deeply interested in her book . " Now for the wolf ! " he said to himself . He walked quickly , but very quietly , down the pathway into the darker woods . He looked eagerly around , but saw only a squirrel frisking among the trees and a rabbit hopping across the road .
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