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from off the margin of the little stream he gathered 

 flowers in his days of childhood. Yonder are the moun- 

 tains, through the secret passes of which he used to con- 

 duct his small company of valiant men, when the storm 

 of war gathered dense and dark, and from which he 

 rushed like a mountain-torrent on the enemies of his 

 country. Close at hand, say they, and extending even 

 to the verge of the common on which stands the village 

 of Ellerslie, are a few trees of the ancient wood, which 

 often served for a hiding-place during his rapid alterna- 

 tions of advance and of retreat, and when in the small 

 beginnings, which suited best with his youth with the 

 youth, too, of his companions he gave good earnest of 

 what his single arm might have effected, if secret jea- 

 lousies and discordant counsels had not undennined his 

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