Speaker 1: Set up with the everyday grind, tied out from the
Speaker 1: summer heat, I want to get away.
Speaker 2: From it all.
Speaker 3: We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from
Speaker 3: the four walls of today. For a half hour of
Speaker 3: high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are spurring a lathered horse through darkened streets, trapped
Speaker 1: by two hostile armies, with a kit of magic in
Speaker 1: your pocket, and the American Revolution in the balance.
Speaker 3: Tonight we escaped to an earlier day and to the
Speaker 3: workshop of a famous wizard, as Stephen Vincent Viney told
Speaker 3: it in his delightful story A Tooth for Paul Revere.
Speaker 4: Some say it all happen because of Hancock and Adams,
Speaker 4: and some put it back to the Stamp Act from before,
Speaker 4: and there's sum that hold out for Paul Revere and
Speaker 4: his little silver box. But the way I heard it,
Speaker 4: the American Revolution broke out because of Lige Butterwick and
Speaker 4: his tooth. My great aunt was a Butterwick, and I
Speaker 4: heard it from her every now and then. She'd write
Speaker 4: it out and want to get it put in the
Speaker 4: history books, but they'd always put her off with some
Speaker 4: trifling sort of excuse. But the way she told her
Speaker 4: to us kids sitting there before the flickering fire on
Speaker 4: some blustery, blowy night. It sounded spooky enough and wonderful
Speaker 4: enough to be as true as the Union history books.
Speaker 5: But you don't get the writer of things from such.
Speaker 5: In the story of a nation, it's the queer corners
Speaker 5: that count, the tales that get whispered down through families.
Speaker 5: Not Take Paul, for instance, All most folks think about
Speaker 5: as his riding a horse, But he was a silver
Speaker 5: smith by trade, and there was a kind of magic
Speaker 5: in that hand to his. I could see just a
Speaker 5: little bit farther into the millstone than most folks, And
Speaker 5: in that little shopper his on those fateful nights, he
Speaker 5: sat over a miraculous flame and brooded the revolution in
Speaker 5: a silver tea pot, and then he put it into
Speaker 5: a little silver bugs no bigger than this.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's the way my great aunt talked about Paul Revere,
Speaker 4: and the chills ran a passpines. But it takes all
Speaker 4: kinds to make a country, she used to say. And
Speaker 4: it isn't till the plain ones like Ledge Butterway get
Speaker 4: stirred up the things really start to happen. Liedge was
Speaker 4: just an ordinary sort of man, without special vision into
Speaker 4: a millstone. It might be a grand day in the
Speaker 4: history books, but for him it was just Tuesday till
Speaker 4: he read about it in the papers. Folks could argue
Speaker 4: and fret about Boston tea parties and British warships in
Speaker 4: Boston Harbor and British soldiers in Boston streets. But Liedge
Speaker 4: Butterwick just plucked his tongue and wondered how the corn
Speaker 4: might stand this year. On his farm outside Lexington, Massachusetts,
Speaker 4: one day, Loige Butterwick woke up with a toothache. The
Speaker 4: hot salt pack and the tansy tea his wife fixed for.
Speaker 6: Him didn't seem to help much.
Speaker 4: Our third day, Missus Butterwick tied a string to the tooth,
Speaker 4: and Lige stood by the door.
Speaker 7: You ready, uh huh?
Speaker 8: Where Mathy when it came to the pinch couldn't quite
Speaker 8: do it.
Speaker 4: So that's how Elije Butterwick came to ride into Lexington,
Speaker 4: Massachusetts that day. He just had to see somebody about
Speaker 4: that tooth. And when he got there the town was
Speaker 4: in an uproar.
Speaker 8: Y Lig's Butterwick, Eh, oh, goody to you, neighbor WILLIAMS.
Speaker 9: Blige. I didn't expect to see you here today.
Speaker 8: It's my tooth.
Speaker 7: Tooth?
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 9: Uh uh huh uh huh huh oh isn't it exciting.
Speaker 8: Exciting the toothy?
Speaker 9: No, no, you would net all this. Have you seen
Speaker 9: them yet?
Speaker 8: Saying who?
Speaker 9: Boy Hancock and Adams? Of course, John Hancock and Sam Adams.
Speaker 9: They're at the Parson.
Speaker 8: Clark's only folks who come here to say was the
Speaker 8: barber figure, He's the only one to do some from
Speaker 8: a tooth.
Speaker 9: You don't pool me, lied, You're probably just as excited
Speaker 9: as I am. Have you cleaned your musket?
Speaker 8: Musket?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 8: It's five months the hunting season yet, that's.
Speaker 9: Where you're wrong. Lies, looks like hunting season maybe early
Speaker 9: this year. M keep your potty dry, huh.
Speaker 4: And so elige. Butterwick came to Lexington and it was
Speaker 4: a great deal for the history books and to him
Speaker 4: it was just Tuesday and his tooth was jumping, and
Speaker 4: he went to see the barbers, the likeliest man he
Speaker 4: knew to pull a tooth. But the barber took one
Speaker 4: look at it and shook his head.
Speaker 2: I can pull her out all right, lide, but she's
Speaker 2: got long ruts and strong ruts, and she'd can't leave
Speaker 2: norful gap.
Speaker 8: When she's gone. Hmm, that's true.
Speaker 2: Now what's really need though, it's caustic my business? One
Speaker 2: of these here, artificial teeth.
Speaker 8: To go there in the hole, artificial teeth. Hey, you know,
Speaker 8: Land of Mercy's flying in the face of nature.
Speaker 2: And the kind lige artificial teeth is all the goold
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 8: Election to ought to keep up with times.
Speaker 10: But it would do me no good.
Speaker 8: You see you were not a fish too, Yes, indeed
Speaker 8: it would, It would do you good. But suppose I
Speaker 8: did want one, how on Tonquet would have get it
Speaker 8: in Lexington?
Speaker 11: Now you just leave that all to me. You'll have
Speaker 11: to go into Boston. But I know just the man
Speaker 11: here if I can find his had his prospectors here somewhere,
Speaker 11: Oh oh yes here see here h spell Caul Revere
Speaker 11: in Boston. That fixes him and they say he's a
Speaker 11: boss workman. Yes, Now you just listen to this here.
Speaker 2: Whereas many persons were so unfortunate as to lose their
Speaker 2: four teeth that shoe lide, oh, to their great detriment,
Speaker 2: not only in looks, but in speaking, both in public
Speaker 2: and private. This is to inform all shots that they
Speaker 2: can have them replaced by artificial ones. I see that
Speaker 2: will look as well as the natural and answer to
Speaker 2: the end of speaking to all intents. Oh, yes, and
Speaker 2: then see it was on his name. Yes, his name's
Speaker 2: right here, Paul Revere, Goldsmith near the head of doctor
Speaker 2: Clark's while in Boston.
Speaker 8: H sounds well enough. But what's it going to cost?
Speaker 2: Oh? I know Revere comes through here pretty often as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact.
Speaker 8: Dos.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a decent fellow, even if he is a
Speaker 2: pretty big bug and sounds lipty.
Speaker 8: You just mentioned my name, Bah, it's something I hadn't
Speaker 8: thought of. But the for panny and for pound mister
Speaker 8: Day's work already, and that two has got to come
Speaker 8: up before I go stark staring mad. But what sort
Speaker 8: of man is its Revere anyway?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's a regular wizard, regular wizard with his tools.
Speaker 8: Wizard.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 8: I don't know about wizards, but if he can fix
Speaker 8: my tooth, I'll call him one.
Speaker 4: So elige Butterwick got back on his horse and started
Speaker 4: for Boston. He rode through the busy, excited streets of Lexington,
Speaker 4: and when he came opposite the residence of Parson Clark,
Speaker 4: he saw a little crowd collected and men staring, so
Speaker 4: he stopped his horse for a moment, and mister.
Speaker 8: Is that them? There's a hill sign?
Speaker 3: Mister Hancock and mister Adams, Sir there through the window,
Speaker 3: tall handsome man and the short man with.
Speaker 6: Face like a bulldog.
Speaker 8: Wouldn't no sun? The strangers to me get up.
Speaker 6: Then he got to Boston.
Speaker 4: He began to feel queer, and it wasn't only his tooth.
Speaker 4: He hadn't been there for four years, and he'd expected
Speaker 4: to find it changed, but it wasn't that either. The
Speaker 4: sky was clear and beautiful, but Blige felt like there
Speaker 4: was thunder in the air. It was uncanny, and the
Speaker 4: people there had little nuts of them on the corners,
Speaker 4: but when he came up to them, they seemed to
Speaker 4: melt away or then look at you, stop talking. And
Speaker 4: then he came to the harbor out there in the
Speaker 4: port of Boston, riding black and grim with the British warships.
Speaker 4: He had no one let be there, of course, but
Speaker 4: it was different somehow, seeing them with their guns pointed
Speaker 4: in at the town. Suddenly felt uncomfortable, felt it like
Speaker 4: to turn and go home, but he was hungry and
Speaker 4: so he went to a tavern for a bite.
Speaker 8: A good day to you, and what may I do
Speaker 8: for you, stranger? Just bite us up. If you're serving,
Speaker 8: I have a seat, You'll be served. Thank you. Uh
Speaker 8: nice weather having these days.
Speaker 9: It's bitter weather for Boston.
Speaker 8: Well now, maybe for Boston, but out in the country
Speaker 8: we'd call a good plant weather.
Speaker 6: I guess maybe I was mistaken in you.
Speaker 4: It is good planting weather for some kind of trees, trees.
Speaker 8: Well, now, I I suppose you're right about that.
Speaker 6: That's and what kind of trees would you be thinking of.
Speaker 4: There's trees and trees you know.
Speaker 8: Well, now that you're asking, you might.
Speaker 4: The liberty tree, and may it soon be watered in
Speaker 4: the blood of tyrants.
Speaker 10: The Royal oc of England, and God save King George
Speaker 10: and Lawtey.
Speaker 12: I didn't live.
Speaker 9: Glory.
Speaker 8: I always heard city folks were crazy. But politics must
Speaker 8: be getting serious in these American colonies when they start
Speaker 8: fighting about trees.
Speaker 1: Aye and it his friend.
Speaker 8: So they threw you out too.
Speaker 1: Yes, blesshem, but I want to shake your hand nobly done,
Speaker 1: for I'm glad to find another true hearted man loyal
Speaker 1: to the crown in this pestilent, rebellious city.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, I don't know. Hows I quite agree with
Speaker 8: you about that. But I came here to get my toothfakes,
Speaker 8: not to talk about politics. And as long as you've
Speaker 8: spoken so pleasant, I wonder if you could help me out.
Speaker 8: You see, I'm from Lexington Way, and I'm looking for
Speaker 8: a fellow named Paul Revere.
Speaker 6: Paul Revere, No, so it's Paul Revere.
Speaker 1: You want my worthy and ingenious friend from the country, Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how to find him.
Speaker 8: Good, I thank you. You go up to the first
Speaker 8: British soldier you see and ask.
Speaker 6: The way, but you'd better give the password.
Speaker 8: First password.
Speaker 1: Yes, you say to that British soldier any lobsters for
Speaker 1: sale today? And then you ask about Revere.
Speaker 8: But why do I talk about lobsters first?
Speaker 1: Well, you see, the British soldiers wear redcoats, so they
Speaker 1: like being asked about lobsters. Just try it and see,
Speaker 1: Just try it, my friend and see.
Speaker 8: Pardon me, sir? Do you have any lobsters for sale today?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 9: Hold?
Speaker 5: Day?
Speaker 3: You see the.
Speaker 8: Barrel place to hide? I'll not wait.
Speaker 10: Come on, fudge, huh, you can come out now they've
Speaker 10: gone past.
Speaker 8: Oh, oh, yes, thank you.
Speaker 9: Nice.
Speaker 10: Look at your clothes. That was a tar barrel you
Speaker 10: jumped into.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm aside.
Speaker 10: What were they chasing you for?
Speaker 8: I really don't know. I guess I didn't give the
Speaker 8: right password. Password, that's but all the same. I don't
Speaker 8: think soldiers ought to act like that when you ask
Speaker 8: him a several questions. But SETI, folks are soldiers. They
Speaker 8: can't make a fool out of me. I came here
Speaker 8: to get my tooth fixed, and get it fixed as
Speaker 8: well if I have to surprise the whole British Kingdom
Speaker 8: to do it.
Speaker 10: Good for you, sir? Can I be of any help
Speaker 10: to you?
Speaker 8: Ah? You can, boy Er, Tell me where I may
Speaker 8: find the silversmith Paul Revere.
Speaker 10: Oh, that's easy. Right before your eyes there's a sign
Speaker 10: hanging down by the wharf, and that's his shop.
Speaker 4: I work there.
Speaker 8: Well, now, those soldiers did me a good turn after all.
Speaker 8: Come on, boy and now maybe I'll get my tooth fixed.
Speaker 4: Then, Liedge Butterwick was in the shop of Paul Revere, silversmith, goldsmith,
Speaker 4: jack of all trades, sculpturer of artificial teeth, brewer of revolutions,
Speaker 4: wizard the shop itself was small and dark, with mysterious
Speaker 4: shadows lurking in the corners, and the bag it was
Speaker 4: crammed full of the wondrous products of its owner's skillful hand,
Speaker 4: gold and silver, objects of great beauty, Prince of Boston
Speaker 4: and caricatures were the British odd boxes and bottles filling
Speaker 4: the shelves. At this particular moment, it was also full
Speaker 4: of customers, and Liede Buttterweight, with the cautious shyness of
Speaker 4: the countryman, sank back into a corner seat out of
Speaker 4: the way, watched as Paul Revere waited on several customers.
Speaker 4: The last of these was a grand lady who looked
Speaker 4: like an irate turkey goblins.
Speaker 7: Oh, Master Revere, I am so disappointed. When I took
Speaker 7: the things from the box, I could just have cried.
Speaker 6: It's I whom disappointed, madame. What was the trouble? Must
Speaker 6: have been carelessly pegged? Was it badly ended?
Speaker 9: Now speak the boy?
Speaker 7: No, No, it wasn't dhinted. But I wanted a really
Speaker 7: impressive silver service, something I can use when the Governor
Speaker 7: comes to dine with us. I certainly paid for the best,
Speaker 7: and what have you given me?
Speaker 12: I've given you the best work of which I am capable, madam.
Speaker 12: It was in my hands for six months, and I
Speaker 12: think they're capble hends. Oh, I know you were a
Speaker 12: competent artisan, master silversmith.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't care what you call it. I know
Speaker 7: I wanted a real service, something I could show my friends.
Speaker 7: And what have you given me?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 7: It's silver, if you choose, But it's just as plain
Speaker 7: as a picquet fence.
Speaker 6: Simple plain. You pay me high compliments, madam, compliments.
Speaker 7: Indeed, I'll send it back tomorrow. Why there isn't as
Speaker 7: much as a lion or a unicorn on the cream jug.
Speaker 7: And I told you I wanted the sugar bowl covered
Speaker 7: with silver grapes. But you've given me something as bare
Speaker 7: as the hills of New England. And I won't stand it.
Speaker 7: I tell you, I'll send to London instead.
Speaker 8: Send way, madam.
Speaker 6: We're making new things in this country, new men, new.
Speaker 12: Silver perhaps, who knows, a new nation plain, simple, bear
Speaker 12: as the hills and rocks a New England, graceful as
Speaker 12: the boughs of elm trees. If my silver were only
Speaker 12: like that, indeed, that's what I wish to make it
Speaker 12: as for you men, them with your lions and unicorns
Speaker 12: and grape leaves and your nonsense of bad ornamentation done
Speaker 12: by bad silversmiths. You're imported bad taste, and you're imported
Speaker 12: British manners. Puff away with you, Puff, Puff puff, I say, William, Yes, sir,
Speaker 12: put up the shutters. We're closing for the day, oh William,
Speaker 12: No word yet from doctor Warren, Not yet, sir.
Speaker 9: Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 8: Who are you there in the corner? Well, mister Vere
Speaker 8: it is mister Vere. Yes, yes, of course it's a
Speaker 8: kind of a long story, but closing or not. You
Speaker 8: got to listen to me.
Speaker 6: The barber told me so, the barber.
Speaker 8: You say, I'm large, Butterwick and that's my toes on toes.
Speaker 8: You'd better begin at the beginning. We now, Yeah, you
Speaker 8: don't talk like a Boston man. Where'd you come from?
Speaker 8: Around Lexington Way?
Speaker 6: And you see Yton? Were you there this morning?
Speaker 8: But of course I was. That's where the barber.
Speaker 12: I never mind barber or miss Hancock and mister Adams
Speaker 12: still at passing clocks?
Speaker 8: Well they might have been for all I know, but
Speaker 8: I couldn't say.
Speaker 12: Great heaven is there a man in the American colonies.
Speaker 12: Who don't know miss Hancock and mister Adams.
Speaker 8: Oh there seems to be me. But speaking of strangers,
Speaker 8: there was two of them staying at the Passonage when
Speaker 8: I rode past. One was a handsome man.
Speaker 6: The other man looked more like a bulldog.
Speaker 12: So they still live and they're British ready to match.
Speaker 12: Did you see many soldiers as you give me my Shopwick?
Speaker 8: See them? They chased me into a tire barrow was
Speaker 8: hold past. All of them by the common with guns
Speaker 8: and flags, looked as if they meant business.
Speaker 12: Thank you, Misseddwick. You're a shrewd obsever You've done me
Speaker 12: and the colonies and invaluable service.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 8: That's nice to know. But speaking of this too, you're
Speaker 8: a stubborn man, mister Wick.
Speaker 6: All the better. I like stubborn men.
Speaker 8: I wish we had more of them.
Speaker 6: Well, one good time serves another.
Speaker 9: You've helped me.
Speaker 8: I'll do my best for you.
Speaker 12: I've made artificial teeth, but drying them is hardly my trade.
Speaker 12: All the same, it's I have a look heah, come
Speaker 12: over here in the light I.
Speaker 8: Now open ah.
Speaker 6: Ye, well, mister by the Wick, it appears to.
Speaker 12: Be compound a glutinated infraction of the upper mola. And
Speaker 12: I'm afraid I can't do anything about it tonight. But
Speaker 12: but here's a draft that will.
Speaker 8: Ease the pain for a while. There.
Speaker 12: Drink mhm hm.
Speaker 8: It's it's spicy and uh and queer. Never mind. Now
Speaker 8: you go to a tavern, get a night dress, come
Speaker 8: back see me in the morning. I'll find a truth
Speaker 8: draft out for you if i'm here. Oh, yes, you'd
Speaker 8: best have some lineament.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 8: That's a queer kind of shop you have here, mister Avera.
Speaker 8: Some folks think so, say what's in that little bottle where?
Speaker 8: Oh that's a little chemical experiment of mine. I call
Speaker 8: it essence Seboston. But there's a good deal of the
Speaker 8: East wind essen Se Boston. Well, they did say it
Speaker 8: was a wizard. It's genuine magic. I suppose genuine magic,
Speaker 8: of course. And here here's the with your liniment. No, no,
Speaker 8: not that one, this one, I thank you. But that
Speaker 8: other little box are the little silver woman with the
Speaker 8: stars on it and the elm tree. Yes you like it,
Speaker 8: pick it up? Mighty party work.
Speaker 12: Thank you? My own design. Thirteen stars there see them?
Speaker 12: You could make a very pretty design with stars for
Speaker 12: a new country seat if you wanted to. I've sometimes
Speaker 12: thought of it.
Speaker 8: But what's in the box? It feels queer?
Speaker 6: What's in it? What's in the air?
Speaker 8: Round us?
Speaker 12: Gun pounder war, making of a new nation? The time
Speaker 12: isn't right yet, not quite ripe.
Speaker 8: I mean that this here revolution that folks keep talking about. Yes,
Speaker 8: in that spot, glory.
Speaker 10: B Master Revere, It's come, It's come, the message from
Speaker 10: doctor Warren.
Speaker 6: William My writing boots.
Speaker 12: Now hurry, I must be off. Sorry, miss Butterwick, but
Speaker 12: I must rush you. Take your linamund and come back tomorrow. Yes, Hick,
Speaker 12: I'll help you. Yes, say say.
Speaker 4: It wasn't till Liedge Butterwick was alone in his room
Speaker 4: at the tavern, where he was to stay the night,
Speaker 4: and he realized what he had done. In the bustle
Speaker 4: and haste of leaving mister Revere's shop. He had picked
Speaker 4: up the wrong box instead of the box of linament.
Speaker 4: He held in his hand, the little silver box with
Speaker 4: the thirteen stars upon it. He hadn't quite believed mister
Speaker 4: Revere when he talked about the box, and then everything
Speaker 4: had seemed so almighty queer since he had arrived in
Speaker 4: Boston and his tooth ache, and his head felt light,
Speaker 4: and he, being human, was curious. He looked for a keyhole,
Speaker 4: but there was none. The box wouldn't open. He shook
Speaker 4: it suddenly it felt warm, as if there was something
Speaker 4: alive inside it. He held it to his ear, Great Godfrey,
Speaker 4: now Laijah. Butterwick was feeling scared, but he was feeling
Speaker 4: kind of good too, And then he found out that
Speaker 4: he was talking to himself.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm not a Britisher, I'm a new Englander, and
Speaker 8: maybe there's something beyond there, something people like Handcott Adams
Speaker 8: know a bar and if it has to come with
Speaker 8: a revolution, well I guess it has to come. Can't
Speaker 8: stay British as here in this country. But what am
Speaker 8: I going to do with this box? Do big a
Speaker 8: job for one man? Guess we'll have to take this
Speaker 8: back to Paul Revere.
Speaker 4: First he went to the little shop on clark Swharf,
Speaker 4: but it was closed up tight and it was a
Speaker 4: while before he could rouse anyone. Then it was the
Speaker 4: boy William who opened the door. Oh it's you.
Speaker 10: Well, Master Revere isn't here, but.
Speaker 8: I've got to find him. Can you tell me where
Speaker 8: he's gone? Why do you want to know got something
Speaker 8: for him? He needs it.
Speaker 10: You wouldn't be a spy for the British, now would you?
Speaker 8: The spy me?
Speaker 10: Well, then what is it you got for him?
Speaker 8: This box, little Selver box? Took it by mistake. I
Speaker 8: think it's important.
Speaker 10: The box by the flag. It isn't parting. But he's gone,
Speaker 10: gone to won. The patriots of the British are coming.
Speaker 8: Which way, boy?
Speaker 10: Which way did he go across the river to Charlestown?
Speaker 8: All right, thank you boy, I'll be following.
Speaker 5: No, you don't get any boats from me. There was
Speaker 5: a crazy man long here an hour ago, and he
Speaker 5: wanted a boat too. My husband was crazy enough to
Speaker 5: take him.
Speaker 10: Do you know what he did?
Speaker 8: No, ma'am.
Speaker 5: He made my husband take my best petticoat to muffle
Speaker 5: the oar so they wooden splash when they passed that
Speaker 5: British ship. My best petticoat, mind, just when my husband
Speaker 5: comes back, he's going to get a piece of my eye.
Speaker 8: It was his name, Paul Revere, was a man of
Speaker 8: forty eyed, keen looking kind of Frenchy.
Speaker 5: I don't know what his right name is, but his
Speaker 5: name's mud with me. My best Petticoat tour into strips
Speaker 5: and swimming in that Mastery River.
Speaker 8: Thank you, ma'am. I get a boat elsewhere, mister.
Speaker 10: Butterwick, So be careful. Your own is right under the
Speaker 10: stern of a British man of war.
Speaker 8: Don't worry, I'll say it.
Speaker 10: Please, mister Butterwick.
Speaker 2: Oh are.
Speaker 10: Be careful, mister Butterwick.
Speaker 8: All right, boy.
Speaker 2: Here he's been going an hour, gone gone where, riding
Speaker 2: to elections to warn Hancock and Adams as soon as
Speaker 2: he spied the lights up there in the north Church.
Speaker 8: And I've got to catch him, says Box. He's got
Speaker 8: to have it. Where can I get a horse? Right
Speaker 8: over here? Come on.
Speaker 4: Out through the darkened streets of Charles Towny road on
Speaker 4: into the black of the countryside. Once he got lost,
Speaker 4: but he found his way again and rode on. It
Speaker 4: was just dawn as he came inside of Lexington, and
Speaker 4: the jew was glistening on the green of the april grass.
Speaker 4: But Elija Butterwick didn't notice the beauty of the dawn.
Speaker 4: The little silver box was hot and burning in his pocket,
Speaker 4: and then suddenly he reined in his horse. Were there
Speaker 4: on the road with two men carrying a trunk, and
Speaker 4: one of them was Paul Revere.
Speaker 8: Well, mister Fair, I say, I'm on time for that
Speaker 8: little appointment about my toes. Well you you are stubborn man,
Speaker 8: mister Bedwick.
Speaker 12: Allah, but you give me a marry chase all night.
Speaker 12: I've had one myself, been captured by the British once
Speaker 12: and escaped. Don't know what's steal in store for me,
Speaker 12: but we're carrying a precious cargo here in this trunk.
Speaker 12: We're bringing to safety all the private papers of mister
Speaker 12: Hancock and mister Adam.
Speaker 8: Which reminds me I've something for you here.
Speaker 6: Silver box. You've got the silver box.
Speaker 8: By mistake, and it's getting frightfully hot in my hand. Yes,
Speaker 8: my friend, And a little wonder across there had Lexington Green,
Speaker 8: the Green. Why there is a line of Lexington men,
Speaker 8: and there across the craig facing them, there's a column
Speaker 8: of British red coat.
Speaker 12: Say Land up with gains the armist by a week.
Speaker 12: They've come to arrest miss Hancock, mister Adams and the
Speaker 12: minute men stand before them.
Speaker 8: Mister Fair, I'm a peaceable man. I've had little notion
Speaker 8: of politics, but I don't like what I saw in Boston.
Speaker 8: I don't like soldiers chasing peaceable citizens into tar barrels,
Speaker 8: but uppity ladies with imported British manners. And I don't
Speaker 8: like British red coats on Lexington Green that I don't.
Speaker 6: Mister Betterwick, what you doing?
Speaker 8: I'm stamping on yourself a box, mister Revere and breaking
Speaker 8: it open.
Speaker 12: Do you know what you've done?
Speaker 6: You've let out the American Revolution. Look, they've fired the
Speaker 6: first shots.
Speaker 8: Well, I guess it's about time, and I guess i'd
Speaker 8: better be going now. Mister Bedwick, where are you going home?
Speaker 8: Got a musket on the wall there. I'll be needing
Speaker 8: everybody here. What about your tools?
Speaker 7: Oh, it's just a tooth.
Speaker 8: But a country is a country anyhow. The Nake Anymore.
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Speaker 3: you A Tooth for Paul Revere by Stephen Vincent Benet,
Speaker 3: adapted for radio by John Duncle and featuring Harry bartel
Speaker 3: Is Large Butterwick Parley Bear as Paul Revere and Barry
Speaker 3: Kroger as the narrator. Special music by Ivan Ditmarsh.
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