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Naugatuck, Conn., Friday, January 25, 1889.

Chauncey Judd;
Or, The Stolen Boy.
A Story of the Revolution
By Israel P. Warren.

[We have received at different times numerous requests to publish a part of the incidents related in the “Chauncey Judd” book, and after a long search have at last succeeded in securing a copy of the publication, and this week will begin the thrilling and interesting story of a Gunntown boy during the American Revolution.]

CHAPTER I.
RETURNING FROM MILL.

“Halloo, youngster! give me a ride,” said a young man bearing a musket and having a military sash around his waist, at the same time springing into a cart in which a lad of about 13 years was sitting.

“Been to mill?”

“Yes,” replied the latter, with a flourish of his whip and a word of command to the ox-team which he was driving; “and this is the third time I have been after this grist. The water is so low in the river that the mill runs but half of the time. Where have you been?”

“Why, do not you see? I have been up to town, to training.”

“Oh, yes; I forgot. Have to train pretty often now, do not you? I was only older; I should like to go, too, I believe I would go as it is, if father and the boys were at home; but our folks cannot spare me now.”

“You! What a pity you cannot. A pretty soldier you would make, such a snapper as that. You could not shoulder a musket all day if you tried, and going into the army you would die of crying for your mammy.”

“Well, taint no use talking, any way; for I cannot go; that is certain. But I wish father was at home about it.”

“When do you expect him?” asked the young soldier.

“We are looking for him now, every day. Mother had word from him weeks ago, that Roswell could do about some, and he hoped they would start for home in a few days.”

“What has been the matter with him, anyway?”

“Oh, do not you know that he has been sick? He took cold one day when he had been out skirmishing, and it brought on lung fever and rheumatism. He was sick a long while, and they say he would not be well enough to join his company again very soon, if this doctor they gave him his discharge.”