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Lt. Foster ordered me and another man to look into stories about a farmer who was selling to the Brits but refusing to let us Continentals buy foodstuffs and fodder. Downright unpatriotic, so we were told as we were sent on our way with orders to change his mind.
Ewell Freeman was the man I was with, and he was in charge, an acting corporal I believe, a tall and gangly Scot from western Virginia, a dead shot with a rifle. What we found, after a long day's ride, was a large and obviously prosperous place with milch cows, some beef cattle and goats, lots of chickens and other fowl and acres and acres of corn, oats and various other grains, just waiting to be harvested. It was that time of year.
The farmer, a man they called "Judge," was not at home, so his house servant told us, but his missus might see us. We sat in a shady parlor and she arrived shortly, dressed in the height of fashion, at least as far as I could tell. Watered silk I think it was called, midnight blue, tight-fitting from narrow waist up and framing a luscious pair of bubbies and milky shoulders beneath a kerchief of some filmy stuff. Her dark blonde hair was pulled back, braided and folded atop her head with some ornate combs, and she wore a look of amusement at our gawking. And she knew we were gawking. Beautiful women know they are beautiful.
"Gentlemen," she said, "how are you at farm work?"
"We come to buy, ma'm," Ewell told her, running his hat through his hands. "For Gen'l Washington, ma'm." He shuffled his big feet.
"We've nothing to sell except for gold," she stated, raising an eyebrow and letting her glance take me in. She looked me up and down twice and made a face, not too pleased at what she saw.
"Yes'm, so we heered, but we's right hungry, ma'm, whole army is," Ewell went on, shuffling his feet in discomfort.
She frowned. "Thought there were so few of you left."
"There's enough," I said. "An' all of us's hungry."
The woman stood up even straighter, her firm chin atop her long neck. She smiled. "My husband will be back in a fortnight."
"Will he sell to us for quartermaster paper?" Ewell asked hopefully.
"Not a chance," she said, beginning to look impatient.
"Y'all might have a fire, y'know," Corporal Freeman said innocently, glancing at me. "Hate to see that big barn ablaze."
"That a threat?" asked the lady, who I supposed was well under forty years, thirty-five I guessed, a woman and not a girl. I mentally undressed her.
"No'm," the corporal said. "We'll be back." He tugged on my elbow and nodded toward the door. I hated to leave, feeling myself hardening at this strangely over-dressed woman in the almost-wilderness.
"You need help with the harvest?" I asked.
She nodded. "Most of the locals have run off, the hired hands."
"I'll help in trade for supplies," I said. "Five bushels of threshed grain a day."
"Three," she said. "No more."
"Three and a ham," I suggested as Ewell stood in the doorway.
"All right," she said, sticking out her hand. I took it and felt the slim bones and thick cords. She was a strong woman and her blood ran rapidly. She held my hand just a bit longer than she had to. She held my eyes as well. Hers were gray.
Outside I convinced the corporal to go on back to camp and return in a couple of weeks with a wagon. I told him Foster was used to me disappearing for a while and would probably be happy to have me gone. "I eat a lot," I explained.
Ewell smacked me on the shoulder, gave me a crooked grin, said, "Stay out'a them darkies' beds," and rode off.
The woman's black overseer, an elderly man with a bad eye, led me to the scythes and sickles, showed me the grindstone, and told me to start cutting the south field. "Lay it down clean for the rakers," he said. "Lay it down straight."
I found a long handled tool that fit my height, worked on the blade for a bit, spit in my palms and got to work. Soon I was back into the rhythm of step and swing, step and swing, my spine bent, my mind turned off and concentrating on keeping the curved blade level. Within a hour my back and arm muscles had gone on past their knotting pain and sweat was lubricating my efforts. When I stopped at a fence and looked back, I was proud of my work. The grain lay in regular windrows and most of the stubble was of an even height. I mopped my brow and started back toward the barn, enjoying the sound of the stalks hissing at my blade and ignoring the pain in my hands.
When a triangle clanged, I finished the row I was on and trotted toward the house, more than ready for a meal. We ate under a big tree near the summer kitchen. The overseer and I were the only men and there were three female servants, two Africans and a Welsh girl. We ate well, corn bread and thick stew, plenty of it with milk, cider, beer and water to wash it down. The overseer slapped my back and told me I was doing just fine. He avoided my questions about the farm and the Judge, but praised the lady of the house for her fortitude and kindnesses.
We all rested for a spell and then the black women got big, wooden rakes, the white girl went off to the house, and I went back to my scythe with a whetstone in my hand. I renewed my edge, convinced my shoulders that they could do more work and started swinging as the sun baked my back. The rakers piled up domed mounds of hay and I did my work until the sun sank behind the woodlot and the triangle rang again.
"Good work, good work," the overseer told me as we stood at the well. "You earned y'pay this day, big feller."
I smiled at him, enjoyed a light meal and a good bit of fine beer, borrowed some tobacco to smoke and sat watching the bats emerge, trying to ignore my aching hands and popped blisters.
The woman came and sat beside me on the back porch. She was wearing a long tan skirt and apron over a loose-fitting white shirt, obviously work clothes. "We'll make it five bushels," she said, untying the cloth about her hair.
I knuckled my forehead and smiled at her. "Tell me about the Judge."
"Good man, usually. Well respected in these parts." She took a deep breath and flapped the shirt at her chest.
"Any children?" I blew out a cloud of blue smoke.
"Oh yes. He has seven I think, yes, seven living. All grown, two boys. I'm his third wife." She reached out and took the clay pipe from my hand. "Do you mind?"
I smiled at her, and she drew deeply and then let the smoke trickle from her mouth and nose. "A secret vice," she said in a mock whisper.
We shared the tobacco until it was gone. When I knocked out the dottle, I asked, "Where am I to sleep?"
"Didn't Jaspar show you? Come." She stood, and I followed her long stride past the outbuildings to a shed-roofed building with windows on every side. I enjoyed walking behind her and watching her fine, mature body move within her clothes. There were six rough-planked beds inside, hooks on the wall and rolled up blankets in a corner.
"Pick one," she said, waving at the beds. " I had the place cleaned up after the men fled, recruiters around here are much like press gangs"
I thanked her, touched my forehead and she turned at the door.
"Don't do that, pull your forelock," she said, "you're nobody's servant."
I smiled and said, "Yes'm. Habit."
I peeled down to my shirt, picked the softest shuck mattress I could find and turned off my head. Almost at once, the door opened a crack and one of the black girls tip-toed in wearing just her shift.
"You want com'ny?" she asked.
"Not tonight," I told her. "Plum wore out."
"Shit," she said and left, closing the thin door firmly.
On my third day as a farm hand, making vittles for Washington's army with the sweat of my brow, some Redcoats with a commissary wagon appeared. I paused out in the field, squinted and hoped I had properly stashed my musket in the loft. I went back to haying, hoping nothing would happen. When the gong sounded for supper, the talk at the table was about the loud words between the mistress and one of the British officers.
"Never heard such lang'age 'fore a lady," one of the black girls said.
"Thought she was gonna hit that big one," the Welsh girl said with a laugh. "They's on the third bottle."
"What going on?" I asked Jaspar.
"They wants ever'thing you done cut," he said, "and she don' want 'em to have it."
"Fodder?" I said.
He nodded.
"They well mounted?" I asked.
"Oh yes," he told me. "Fine horses. Saw that cob a'yourn an' sneered."
Just then two soldiers came from the stable area and took seats on the benches with us, smiling aimlessly. One of the girls fetched them some food, and they ate silently, looking neither left nor right. When they finished and washed down their grub, the older one turned to the Welsh girl. "How much f'a quick swive?" he asked her, trying to look pleasant despite his pock-marked face and rotten teeth.
The girl shook her head and got to her feet. The soldier grabbed her arm, twisted it up behind her and clambered from the table with a foul curse. I stood quickly as the Redcoat dragged the squalling girl toward the barn and the other soldier produced a very large pistol. I threw a pitcher half filled with beer at him and dove across the plank table, scattering food and taking his face with one hand and his gun with the other. We rolled off on the ground, and I got my forearm across his neck and my knee in his groin. When he let go of the gun, I scooped it up and broke his nose with the heavy barrel, scrambled to my feet and cocked the thing.
The other big Redcoat saw me coming, tossed the girl aside and drew his own pistol. I dove to the ground, rolled over as a shot blasted out and came up with my thumb on the frizzen pan. On one knee I shot the man squarely where his belts crossed, and he twisted back and fell on his face, spouting crimson, arms flung wide.
"That will do!" said a commanding, but very female, voice, and I spun to see the woman and the British officers on the back porch. "What's going on?" she demanded. arms folded across her chest.
"'E was gonna do me," the Welsh girl cried, looking down at the dead man at her feet. "Fook me."
"Was that you that screamed?" her mistress demanded.
She nodded vigorously, as the Redcoat with the smashed nose got to his feet, wiping his face and looking hatred at me.
"I think you had better leave," she said to the lean officer beside her.
"We need that hay," he said quietly.
"Not today, major," she said. "Not today. Get them out of here."
"B'damn, madam, we'll get what we came for. Don't thwart your husband's will," the older officer demanded, very red in the face.
"Go," the woman said loudly. "Another day. Take that body with you."
"You'll regret this," the major said, hitching up his britches and stalking off.
"I'll get y'fer what y'done," the bleeding soldier told me as he stepped past and then dragged his friend to the barn. He hoisted the bleeding body into the wagon like a sack of meal, and the British left in a dust cloud. The place was very quiet.
The black servants went off with their rakes, the mistress sent the Welsh lass to some chores and Jaspar disappeared quietly as he often did. "You need a drink?" the woman asked me. She had come to stand at my elbow. I put down the pistol which I had forgotten was still in my hand.
"Might help," I said, and I followed her into the house. She found a stoneware jug and handed it to me. I popped out the cork and hefted the thing to my shoulder. The whisky was smooth and strong. I felt it to the pit of my belly almost instantly.
She smiled. "Haven't seen a man drink like that since I was a girl," she said. "What happened out there?"
We sat at a rough table where the Welsh girl often prepared food for the stove or the big, open fireplace.
"I don't know your name," I said, apropos of nothing in particular except that fights generally got my blood up and I was hoot-owl horny.
"Lucy," the woman said with a fine smile, offering me her hand. "Lucy F--." I told her my name and shook her hand a bit longer than I should have. She pulled free. "So tell me," she said.
I told her briefly what had taken place. "If Ginny had wanted to lie with him, it would have been different," I said.
"Have Sophie or Melinda visited you?" she asked.
I shook my head.
"I'm surprised."
"They've offered," I said.
"Not your style?"
"Something like that. Mainly the work out there does not leave me needing much but sleep."
"I see," she said. "What about now?"
"I've only worked half the day," I said, feeling the urge rising.
"Hm," she said, reaching out to touch my stubbled face. She beckoned with a finger, and I followed up the stairs to what I suppose you would call a bathing room at the landing. It had a big wooden tub, a large basin and pitcher, a plank floor and two drains that led outside to the rainwater scuppers. Ginny fetched in four buckets of water with a smile glued to her face, and I stripped off, settled myself into the tub and washed my dirty body with Lucy's enthusiastic help. She said she had never seen such a hairy human being. Then I stood dripping and eager, but she handed me a fine razor and pointed to the mirror hanging on a wall. I shaved, close and neat with my proud prod, which had been sticking out like a bowsprit, sagging but still crying for attention, hanging full and firm. By the time I was finished scraping my face, I was reasonably dry, barely turgid but still mentally eager.
She lay on her high bed, naked as the day she was born, up on one elbow and wearing only a grin. Her hip rose like one of those sugarloaf mountains. "You certainly are a well-equipped laborer," she said as I approached her bed, quickly past tumescent and growing bigger fast.
"Good workmen always have the proper tools," I said as I rolled in beside her, gathered her up and found her generous mouth.
"Gently," she said after we had explored and kissed for a while, "I've not done this for some time."
"The Judge," I began and she stiffened.
"Not your business," she said, spreading wide her knees and then lifting her thighs, her hands beneath her hips. I had never had a woman present herself like that. It made it very easy.
I inched my swollen spear into her as gradually and steadily as I could, and when it was well planted, I rested it there, my weight mostly on my elbows, and looked down at her. We kissed gently as it jerked, pulsed and swelled.
"That's fine," she sighed, wiggling beneath me. "Don' think I've ever felt one like that." I flexed the well-buried root, and she jumped and her mouth fell open. "Slowly, slowly," she sighed as I rotated my hips some and pressed it deeper. Her legs rubbed along mine. "You're exploring new territory."
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The three men bent over their horses' necks and galloping down the road may or may not have seen me as they came on in a rush, but they simply ignored me, and I was forced to scramble into the woods to avoid them. I cursed under my breath and watched as the Redcoat hallooed and his two German companions dug their heels into their steeds to keep pace. I cut back through the trees, urged my mare to leap a small stream and came back to the road in plenty of time to dismount, load a double shot...
There I was, tied to a post in a dirty barn, stripped bare to the waist and facing as nasty a crew as I had yet found. They did not give a damn about rebels and Tories or anything else. They wanted money and they had mine and hoped I would lead them to more since my purse had been heavy with blood money. I had at least one tooth that was loose, and my eyebrow was dripping blood. I worked on my knots, rubbing my hands up and down the rough post, failed to get the thick pole moving by pulling...
On one of my last trips to visit with Mrs. Von R--, seeking knowledge of British intentions and a warm bed, a black woman hoeing at a kitchen garden stopped me as I walked past the back fence of her long plot. "Ho, mistah," she cried, waving her free hand. "You shore is a big 'un. How 'bout helpin' some poor folks?" She leaned on her hoe and looked at me stony faced, a bandana covering her head and her feet bare. I was in a hurry, eager to find a bedmate since Mrs. Von R-- usually...
It took me a while to figure out that the big, young woman with the long legs and wild hair was in charge of the place and that the man I mistook for the inn-keeper was just one of her employees. She was well past being sturdy, nearly six feet high in her thick-heeled boots and easily twelve stone. She wore plain, country clothes with no decoration and her full, firm body moved freely beneath them like some sort of caged animal. She had heavy thighs, wide hips and full breasts, a firm jaw and...
The woman under me was smiling while her body heaved and rolled from side to side. She raised her hips and her velvety quim pulled me deeper into her when I already felt fully extended. I surged up and back, rocked left and right, trying to screw it in even farther. She squealed and shuddered, pouring fluids over my root as our bodies slapped together. We grunted and throbbed together, thrust and recoil, thrust and recoil. It felt a foot deep in her, banging into her bones, thick and hard....
Staging ambushes became our specialty. Since most agreed that I had the best Pennsylvania rifle in the company, I was often the bait in our trap. Once we had spied a small camp of the enemy pickets or a foraging party at work, my job would be to step out in the open, fire at them a time or two, aiming for the officers of course, and then run for it once they got moving toward me. If we worked it right, we could bag up to a dozen men and horses that way, replenish our supplies and send a...
Not Credible "See this here place, this area," the lieutenant said pointing to his map. I nodded. "Somewhere in these woods there's a home guard bunch that has been raising hell with the Redcoats," he stopped and looked at me. "You ain't busy are you?" "No sir," I said, not wanting to lie but having enjoyed several days of inactivity. "Go find out who's leading 'em. Tell 'em we're getting ready to retreat again. See if you can get this bunch to join up." I nodded and...
"Now," said the big Redcoat, "since you insist on being uncooperative, I have a bargain for you, a trade let us call it." He turned to one of the men near the door. "Bring those two bitches in here," he said. The heavy door of the basement room swung open and two more British soldiers entered, each with a woman in tow. They brought their prisoners to the colonel, clicked their heels and left. Now, just a few feet away, stood a handsome woman and a younger girl. Both wore nothing but...
It was absolutely one of our best ambushes of the whole retreat. We cut the foraging party down like hay, seven men dead and one dying in less than a minute. The women driving the two big wagons did not even have time to duck for cover before it was all over. While the smoke blew away and my lieutenant finished off the wounded man with a pistol shot, I took note of the women with the reins in their hands. They looked a lot alike, fair-haired and sun burned, poke bonnets and farm dresses, long...
"So where have I gone wrong?" "You have not gone wrong Jane, its just that we are not going anywhere in this relationship" "Graham, I gave everything in this relationship, I gave up promotion opportunities,hobbies, you name it". Tears were now in her eyes, there was also a pause. She thought about the holiday in Spain she had booked for them both. "Jane we have both tried, but I find it hard now." He did not want to say it, but before he could even think about it, Jane asked...
“I fucked Becky Howard last night, and she has the smallest tits I have ever seen,” said Todd to his two friends. They laughed and went back to their hamburgers.“Was she any good?” said one of the others after putting down his food.“She was alright I guess, sucked my dick a bit but wasn’t very good at it. And she would only do the missionary position and that’s so fucking lame.”The three young men continued to discuss Becky’s body and what she had done the previous night. I sat at the table...
College SexSince I was in town I rode out to check on Sarah and Jean, the two girls we had rescued from the Hessians earlier that winter. They were living with a farm family that had lost two chidlren to the smallpox and seemed to have settled in right well. Neither had become pregnant as a result of their repeated rapes and both were happy to see me and insisted that I stay for supper to see how well they had learned to cook. I did and they had. Their sour apple pie was as good as any I ever...
We rode right into it and paid the price; two of my company dead plus the driver and footman shot off the carriage. I rolled from my wounded horse and scrambled into the weeds and thorn bushes while George galloped off in the other direction, going for help I certainly hoped. It was a whole company of howling Germans, blue jackets with red facings, and they laughed and gabbled while they searched the dead and pulled two women and a well-dressed man from the rig. I had not been told who we...
I once got to play the knight in shining armor, but of course in my own shabby way. I was eating and drinking in a tavern near the river when the stage stopped and seven passengers trooped in to dine. The group included one striking woman in a long purple cloak. She stood out from the crowd, like a rose among toadstools, not only because of her dress, but because of her cool poise, striking posture, curly brown hair, dark eyes and voluptuous beauty. She was a fine, healthy woman, perhaps...
For the next couple of months, things went on much that way. The British sat in the towns, enjoying life among the Tories as best they could, eating well and rogering regularly, I'm sure, and Washington worried about where they were going and had his recruiters out far and wide seeking replacements for his still-dwindling infantry companies. We heard all sorts of rumors, even a report that a big Redcoat and Indian army was coming down the lakes from Canada, but basically it was a waiting...
When I reported back Captain Foster smiled and said I was just the man he wanted to see. Peter McGinn and I were the only members of the company in town, and there was a visiting officer who had asked for some protection while he scouted about and got to know the country. The officer was a portly Frenchman who spoke almost no English but had with him a young woman, who he claimed was some sort of relation and who acted as his interpreter. We just assumed she was his doxy. The four of us set...
In April, I had an interesting experience with an officer's wife and one of her sons. She was Angela McG-- and he was her oldest, Rodney, a good-sized lad of sixteen, fuzz-faced, long-legged, gawky and eager to get into the fight. He wanted to join the army like his quartermaster father, and she did not want him to. Captain Foster sent me to see her, and I am not sure whether or not he thought he was doing me or her a favor. She was a healthy and handsome woman in her mid-thirties. She had...
I had one more side trip on my way north, again a pleasurable one although it involved a lot of hard work and very little killing. A woman stopped me from beside the road just after I had topped a rise. She held up her hand and smiled at me, sharing a fine and gracious look. I dismounted. I always had a thing for redheads, and this woman had a rich, dark, auburn mane that flowed well down her back. She was handsome and she knew it. There was pride in her stance. "Need some help," the big...
Catching the general was much easier than it should have been. He was traveling without a guard detail, just the driver and an armed footman on the seat. We shot them both, tore open the door and found a portly man of fifty or so in a long-tailed red coat, a trim captain less than half that age, a stylish woman of perhaps thirty and a frilly girl that might have been twenty. The women claimed to be the wife and daughter of the general, although I doubted that from the first sight of them, and...
In May I reported that it seemed the British were getting concentrated down toward Amboy. Captain Foster decided that meant Philadelphia for sure, and I warned the ladies in Trenton to be prepared to run for it if Howe's big army came their way. It took me two pleasurable days and long nights to do that. Washington then moved down to some wooded hills in what the locals called the Watchung Mountains, to keep a closer eye on the British. While his much healthier and somewhat larger army dug...
It took me almost another week to make my report and find that Dan Morgan, Captain Foster and most of my fellow scouts were being pursued by Tarleton's legion in a hit and run series of fights and skirmishes. The British were hitting and we were running, deeper into the hills. By then, just after Christmas this was, Morgan had crossed the Broad River heading west, and, we found out a week later, Greene had moved the rest of his raggedy army, perhaps a thousand men, out of Charlotte and set...
Then Howe's big army just up and vanished. Captain Foster was fit to be tied and gelded. "What the hell do you mean, they're gone?" he yelled at me when I reported I could not find them. "Where did they go? When did they go? What the hell have you been doing? No, don' tell me." "I think they got on ships," I said. "I was all the way down to Hazlit before I ran into pickets and sentries. Fellow in a tavern said he had seen two hundred ships out in the bay. I asked him if he counted...
That day, the 16th of January it was, I looked up the date, we found Tarleton's bunch only about five or six miles away and coming on pretty fast. Captain Foster said the army would be leaving Thicketty Creek and that Dan Morgan was looking for a place to stop running. He planned to stand and fight. I hurried back with my information while Reedy stayed to shadow the British and Tories. He never came back so I guessed he must have made a mistake somewhere. Morgan had camped near a low hill...