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"It's getting worse out there," Felicity said at supper. "The Hessians were bad, frightening, brutal, and they're still around, but now the Redcoats are tearing up the countryside. Rape's back on the increase, common as sin ever was, and the Redcoats don't mind doing boys." She looked across at Ivy who keep her eyes down and ate her food voraciously as did her brothers.
"I saw some of that kind of thing out in the Barrens," I said. "Got me a young lieutenant, too, without much of a struggle."
"I heard of foragers stripping wood from houses and sheds now that the fences are all gone," Ivy said. "A lady at the butcher's told me. And they paraded their camp followers through the town while you were away, dressed in stolen finery, they were."
"Are you shopping for your mother sometimes?" I asked, watching Felicity out of the corner of my eye.
Ivy nodded. "She gives me a list, and I stay away from the soldiers."
"Have you had any trouble?" I asked.
The slight girl shook her head. "Momma ties down my bubbies and knots up my hair," she said, glancing my way.
"Bubbie, bubbies, Ivy's got bubbies," her brothers briefly chorused until their mother frowned at them.
That night, once Felicity had checked out all my reflexes, as well as my length and strength, she pronounced me fit to join the hunt, although, she noted, rather fatigued. Then talked seriously about Ivy doing the dangerous but important job.
"Occasionally," the warm woman said. "We must be careful. She goes out looking as awful as I can make her, but she's so damn pretty.
"I going hunting, starting tomorrow. Maybe if we take a few scalps, it will discourage these raiding parties."
"I hope you're right. If this war lasts much longer, there wont be a farm house or barn left in this part of New Jersey." She rubbed me between the legs with her knee in a highly familiar manner. "You about ready?" she asked.
In the morning, after we did a bit of happy roistering just to get the blood circulating, I headed back into the Barrens, the memory of Mrs. Synder's abundant charms and of Ginny's imaginative rogering and Magda's long legs all fresh in my mind. I had an idea I wanted to talk with her sharp-shooting old father-in-law about.
Well before I made the turnoff into their winding lane, I smelled smoke and then saw it rising and twisting above the bare tree limbs. I got off the trail and made my way carefully through the woodlot. By the time I reached the place where I had first seen the house and the young officer clubbing down the old man, I could see that the barn was burnt down to just one wall and a mass of ashes and cinders. It was still smoking and crackling. The lower part of the back wall stood, probably damp from the nearby swamp, but the rest was gone, just piles of stinking rubbish.
A farm wagon sat in front of the house as it had before, except that there was a big horse tied behind it. What looked to be the same two men were again loading household goods, but I could not see anyone in uniform.
"Hisst," came an odd sound from behind me. "Back here," whispered an old voice. Without taking my eyes from the front door, I retreated to a large granite boulder where old Mr. Shoemaker crouched, looking angry and very worried. "Them two from the wagon went and told, I reckon," he said, spiting tobacco juice off to the side. "I was out in the far field, clearing drainage ditches since it was so mild today. I don' know what they's doing to Magda, but I can guess."
"How many?"
"I seen four ridin' horses besides the two at the wagon, that's six men."
"We go up there running and shooting, they might kill her."
"They might if we don't, and I ain't much good, awful slow."
"But you're sure one hell of a shot."
He nodded in agreement, and handed him my rifle, powder horn and shot pouch and slipped my musket off my back and checked its pan and cartridge box.
"I got a smoothbore pistol here that's really only accurate 'bout as far as you can spit, got it last time I was here in fact, but I can reload this musket fast enough." As we watched, an officer came out of the house, straightening his wig and buttoning his waistband. He walked toward the outhouse.
"I'll get him," I said quickly, "then go 'round back and drive 'em out the front door. Shoot the first one you see and then reload best you can. That's what I'll be doing in the back. It's a couple of hundred yards, but it'll take a fast man more than half a minute to get to the treeline."
The officer went into the necessary, and I took off running just inside the scrubby trees and brush, staying low. I cut past the well, pulled open the privy door and stabbed the urinating man in the back with my bayonet, driving him off his feet and into the rear wall. He gurgled, clawing the wall with both hands. I did not stay around to watch the results but ran on to the back of the house, quiet as I could in the melting snow. One of the soldiers inside was facing me, showing some strain as he held Magda at the hip and worked at trying to get his stiff member into her as she lay writhing on the floor with another Redcoat holding her down. The third watched, grinning, his boot on one of her ankles and his britches undone, waiting his turn.
I smashed the pistol through the back window and gut shot the fornicating soldier. With that weapon, I had to aim at his body. I dropped the pistol as he collapsed on the woman, howling, blood spurting all over her legs. I poked my musket through the broken window and shot the grinning spectator cleanly through the head. He was only twelve feet away, and I could not miss. The ball took him right off his feet. The third man scrambled from the floor and ran for the front of the house.
As I smashed in the back door and went to Magda's side, throwing the bleeding body off of her, I heard the rifle crack. I helped her sit up and ran for the door, forgetting I had not reloaded my musket and no longer had a bayonet. I didn't need to worry. With a stain spreading on his back, the fourth Britisher was spread-eagled in the dirt by the wagon where the two teamsters stood, mouths agape. I pointed my empty gun at them and told them to get down. "Come on in, Shoemaker," I called, and the old man shuffled out of the woods with my long rifle raised in one shaking hand.
I silently tied the two men to the back wheels of their wagon, kneed each of them in the groin as hard as I could and went to see to Magda. Her father-in-law had her up, sitting on the narrow settle near the fire, and he was patting her on the back and making cooing sounds. The woman was bent over and sobbing into her hands, wearing only a torn and bloody shift.
I decided to leave them and went to see about the officer I had left my bayonet in. He was not dead, but he sure was dying, with my long blade stuck all the way through his guts. He was kneeling in the one-holer like a man trying to throw up, clawing at his back with both hands. I put my foot on him and pulled out my blade, wiping it on his coat tails. I yanked him out near the well by his collar, called him several names while he whined and cried, and then I cut open his belly and left him holding coils of glistening intestines in his shaking hands.
I went back into the house, angry as I think I have ever been and pulled the man who had been poking Magda off the floor. He was trying to keep the blood in his belly without much success, his legs thrashing about. I forced him to his feet and pulled him out into the yard and down to the well. I made him to kneel and look at the dying officer with his blue veined insides spread all over his white britches and the frozen ground. He looked briefly and then stared up at me and said, "No." I smiled and cut him open, left to right, just under his belt and over the bullet wound, sawing with my rough-bladed bayonet. He screamed and fell on his face, his hands scrambling to hold himself together. I kicked him in the ribs and turned him over with my foot.
"Something odd is going on over in Wessextown," the old lady said. "You've nothing useful to do. Go investigate." I gobbled down my breakfast, tended to my horse and weapons and was on my way before the sun topped the trees. Wessex was a small, tidy town with a pleasant square, a white church, two taverns, a sawmill and a respected potter. I headed for the larger tavern and had a good beer. The place was empty but it was barely noon. "Yer jus' in time for the show," the publican...
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The girl that sat on the pulled-down steps of the fancy carriage looked sad indeed, nearly despondent, head down and knees wide apart. She was drawing on the ground with a stick. She glanced up as I dismounted and gave me a wan smile. There was neither team nor driver in sight so the problem was obvious. She stood and my cock stirred. She was a true stunner, dressed in the height of fashion and sporting a mop of dark red hair that cascaded over her shoulders and well down her straight back,...
I reached the McB-- plantation on a bend in the James just about sunset, feeling very proud of myself since I was about halfway to Portsmouth. I had a good horse under me and had rearmed myself with the weapons I had used all during the Revoltuion, tools my hands knew well. Now if I could promote a hot meal and a warm woman for my bed, it would be an almost perfect day. Long and bloody, but almost perfect. On my way south I had given the Ranger camp a wide berth. I left my horse with a young...
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The last river I had to cross was a nameless, northern tributary of the Broad. Winter had finally arrived with day after day of cold rain blowing in from the northwest. The fords were high and I kept going upstream until I found an operating ferry. I beat on the keg intended as a signal drum and a person finally emerged on the far side, waved at me and went to the flat-bottomed barge. Across the roiling stream it came, bobbing up and down, and I loaded my two horses aboard and tried to help...
"Missy," I yelled, "where the hell are my clothes? I can't go running around out there killing Redcoats and chasing after Benedict bloody Arnold and your frigging husband, the honorable Justin sodomite H--, in jus' my birthday suit!" "Now, don' get yo'self all riled up," she said, crawling back into the bed after using her chamber pot and adopting a deeper Southern accent. "Old Miss Martha'll be along directly with your clothes, all brushed and so forth, honey lamb, boots shined...
Late one rainy afternoon when I returned to my basement hideout, I found a woman standing at the foot of the steps, huddled in a dark, hooded coat and using her sleeve to ward off the blowing sheets of cold rain. She was tall and that was about I could tell about her except that the hem of her coat and dress were very wet and heavy. "Help you?" I asked, huddled in my old jacket and wishing I had worn a hat. I could feel cold water running down the back of my neck. "Does the S- family...
And then I awoke in a cellar although it took me some time to figure out where I was. My feet were tied together, my hands bound behind me, there was a damp gag in my mouth and my eyes were bandaged. I mentally took inventory and found most of my other parts were present and in working order. I could not feel any blood or new lumps on my head, but I had a metallic taste in my mouth. The gag was absolutely the worse part not only because it nearly strangled me in my own spit but tore at the...
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...
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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...
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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...