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Lillie, you will, without a doubt, fight until you can not fight 
any more. 
“Tet us hear about said case!” came from one direction of 
the crowd. 
“To be a certainty!” came from another direction. 
Here Crispus Attucks related the following story: 
“Theophilus Lillie, who had begun to sell contrary to the 
agreement, found a post planted in front of his door, with a 
hand, in derision, pointed towards his house. One of his 
neighbors, Richardson, an informer, asked a country-man to 
break the post down by driving the wheel of his cart against 
it. Here, a crowd, on seeing such act being put into execu- 
tion, interposed, whereupon a number of boys chased Richard- 
son to his own house, simultaneously throwing stones at him. 
Richardson, being provoked, but not endangered, fired among 
the boys, whereupon he killed one eleven years of age, the 
son of a poor German. At the funeral of this poor German 
boy five hundred children walked in front of the bier; six of 
his schoolfellows held the pall; men of various ranks moved 
in procession from Liberty Tree to the Town Hall, thence to 
the burying place, while soldiers and officers looked on with 
wounded pride. , 
“Now, dear citizens, are you going to stand for such treat- 
ment?” 
“No!” said Caldwell, whose exclamation rose above the 
crowd. 
“What are we going to do, then?” interrogated Gray. 
“Follow the instructions of Crispus Attucks!” exclaimed 
Maverick. : Y 
“Ah, what are his instructions!” put in the crowd, pas- 
sionately. 
“My advice is this: Let us arm ourselves with the best 
armaments that we can obtain; with the aid of these imple- 
ments of war, and the loyalty of the citizens, we will fight the 
English soldiers with the greatest force in our power.” 
“Citizens, we have heard—so be it!” thundered Gray. 
Men and women, both young and old, boys and girls, every- 
body who could fight, became possessed of a club, stone, 
sword, knife, gun, anything fightable, whereupon they paraded 
the streets with shouts of revenge, beat, cut, burn, kill. Here- 
upon the inhabitants of the city, those who were indoors, came 
to their fences, windows, doors, looked, listened, then joined 
the revolutionary crowd of enthusiastic revolutionists, a hungry 
crowd of death-hunters, a marching multitude of Reign of 
Terror, Revolutionary France come to life in Boston. 
“Fight for your life!” 
“Fight for liberty, justice, peace!” 
“Fear nobody, though he be the devil himself!” 
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