WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.559 Set up with the everyday grind, tied out from the 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.599 summer heat, I want to get away. 3 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:08.880 From it all. 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:16.039 We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.519 the four walls of today. For a half hour of 6 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:19.640 high adventure. 7 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:25.600 You are spurring a lathered horse through darkened streets, trapped 8 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.679 by two hostile armies, with a kit of magic in 9 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.880 your pocket, and the American Revolution in the balance. 10 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.840 Tonight we escaped to an earlier day and to the 11 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.719 workshop of a famous wizard, as Stephen Vincent Viney told 12 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.399 it in his delightful story A Tooth for Paul Revere. 13 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:01.840 Some say it all happen because of Hancock and Adams, 14 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.359 and some put it back to the Stamp Act from before, 15 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.000 and there's sum that hold out for Paul Revere and 16 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.400 his little silver box. But the way I heard it, 17 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.560 the American Revolution broke out because of Lige Butterwick and 18 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.680 his tooth. My great aunt was a Butterwick, and I 19 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.120 heard it from her every now and then. She'd write 20 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.640 it out and want to get it put in the 21 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.319 history books, but they'd always put her off with some 22 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.799 trifling sort of excuse. But the way she told her 23 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.079 to us kids sitting there before the flickering fire on 24 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:39.040 some blustery, blowy night. It sounded spooky enough and wonderful 25 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:43.359 enough to be as true as the Union history books. 26 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.560 But you don't get the writer of things from such. 27 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.400 In the story of a nation, it's the queer corners 28 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.760 that count, the tales that get whispered down through families. 29 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:03.760 Not Take Paul, for instance, All most folks think about 30 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.319 as his riding a horse, But he was a silver 31 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.520 smith by trade, and there was a kind of magic 32 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:16.520 in that hand to his. I could see just a 33 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.599 little bit farther into the millstone than most folks, And 34 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.919 in that little shopper his on those fateful nights, he 35 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.960 sat over a miraculous flame and brooded the revolution in 36 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:36.599 a silver tea pot, and then he put it into 37 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:41.840 a little silver bugs no bigger than this. 38 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.439 Yes, that's the way my great aunt talked about Paul Revere, 39 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:54.000 and the chills ran a passpines. But it takes all 40 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.680 kinds to make a country, she used to say. And 41 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.439 it isn't till the plain ones like Ledge Butterway get 42 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:05.719 stirred up the things really start to happen. Liedge was 43 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:10.120 just an ordinary sort of man, without special vision into 44 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.360 a millstone. It might be a grand day in the 45 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.599 history books, but for him it was just Tuesday till 46 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.960 he read about it in the papers. Folks could argue 47 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.919 and fret about Boston tea parties and British warships in 48 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:28.520 Boston Harbor and British soldiers in Boston streets. But Liedge 49 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.879 Butterwick just plucked his tongue and wondered how the corn 50 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.000 might stand this year. On his farm outside Lexington, Massachusetts, 51 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.560 one day, Loige Butterwick woke up with a toothache. The 52 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.080 hot salt pack and the tansy tea his wife fixed for. 53 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.000 Him didn't seem to help much. 54 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.840 Our third day, Missus Butterwick tied a string to the tooth, 55 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.319 and Lige stood by the door. 56 00:03:54.520 --> 00:04:01.199 You ready, uh huh? 57 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:05.680 Where Mathy when it came to the pinch couldn't quite 58 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:05.960 do it. 59 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:17.040 So that's how Elije Butterwick came to ride into Lexington, 60 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.120 Massachusetts that day. He just had to see somebody about 61 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.079 that tooth. And when he got there the town was 62 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.759 in an uproar. 63 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:32.480 Y Lig's Butterwick, Eh, oh, goody to you, neighbor WILLIAMS. 64 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.120 Blige. I didn't expect to see you here today. 65 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:36.360 It's my tooth. 66 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:37.040 Tooth? 67 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:37.759 What do you mean? 68 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:42.199 Uh uh huh uh huh huh oh isn't it exciting. 69 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.439 Exciting the toothy? 70 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.600 No, no, you would net all this. Have you seen 71 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:49.000 them yet? 72 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.000 Saying who? 73 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.839 Boy Hancock and Adams? Of course, John Hancock and Sam Adams. 74 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.079 They're at the Parson. 75 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.560 Clark's only folks who come here to say was the 76 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.279 barber figure, He's the only one to do some from 77 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:00.720 a tooth. 78 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.399 You don't pool me, lied, You're probably just as excited 79 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.439 as I am. Have you cleaned your musket? 80 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:07.360 Musket? 81 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:08.160 Why? 82 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.680 It's five months the hunting season yet, that's. 83 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.560 Where you're wrong. Lies, looks like hunting season maybe early 84 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:18.600 this year. M keep your potty dry, huh. 85 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.000 And so elige. Butterwick came to Lexington and it was 86 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.439 a great deal for the history books and to him 87 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.879 it was just Tuesday and his tooth was jumping, and 88 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.199 he went to see the barbers, the likeliest man he 89 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.920 knew to pull a tooth. But the barber took one 90 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.000 look at it and shook his head. 91 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.600 I can pull her out all right, lide, but she's 92 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.120 got long ruts and strong ruts, and she'd can't leave 93 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.000 norful gap. 94 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.680 When she's gone. Hmm, that's true. 95 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.240 Now what's really need though, it's caustic my business? One 96 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:51.759 of these here, artificial teeth. 97 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.439 To go there in the hole, artificial teeth. Hey, you know, 98 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:57.120 Land of Mercy's flying in the face of nature. 99 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.959 And the kind lige artificial teeth is all the goold 100 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:00.560 these days. 101 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.600 Election to ought to keep up with times. 102 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:04.839 But it would do me no good. 103 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:06.959 You see you were not a fish too, Yes, indeed 104 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.720 it would, It would do you good. But suppose I 105 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:12.519 did want one, how on Tonquet would have get it 106 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:13.199 in Lexington? 107 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.160 Now you just leave that all to me. You'll have 108 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.199 to go into Boston. But I know just the man 109 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:22.600 here if I can find his had his prospectors here somewhere, 110 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:27.079 Oh oh yes here see here h spell Caul Revere 111 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.240 in Boston. That fixes him and they say he's a 112 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.959 boss workman. Yes, Now you just listen to this here. 113 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.720 Whereas many persons were so unfortunate as to lose their 114 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:39.319 four teeth that shoe lide, oh, to their great detriment, 115 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.040 not only in looks, but in speaking, both in public 116 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.920 and private. This is to inform all shots that they 117 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.160 can have them replaced by artificial ones. I see that 118 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.959 will look as well as the natural and answer to 119 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.360 the end of speaking to all intents. Oh, yes, and 120 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.639 then see it was on his name. Yes, his name's 121 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.360 right here, Paul Revere, Goldsmith near the head of doctor 122 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.720 Clark's while in Boston. 123 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:05.160 H sounds well enough. But what's it going to cost? 124 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.439 Oh? I know Revere comes through here pretty often as 125 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.079 a matter of fact. 126 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:09.439 Dos. 127 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.199 Yes, it's a decent fellow, even if he is a 128 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.079 pretty big bug and sounds lipty. 129 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.839 You just mentioned my name, Bah, it's something I hadn't 130 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:21.680 thought of. But the for panny and for pound mister 131 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:23.720 Day's work already, and that two has got to come 132 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.519 up before I go stark staring mad. But what sort 133 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:28.879 of man is its Revere anyway? 134 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.040 Oh, he's a regular wizard, regular wizard with his tools. 135 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:32.920 Wizard. 136 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:34.000 Hm. 137 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.959 I don't know about wizards, but if he can fix 138 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:38.240 my tooth, I'll call him one. 139 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.720 So elige Butterwick got back on his horse and started 140 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.639 for Boston. He rode through the busy, excited streets of Lexington, 141 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.079 and when he came opposite the residence of Parson Clark, 142 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.120 he saw a little crowd collected and men staring, so 143 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.360 he stopped his horse for a moment, and mister. 144 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.439 Is that them? There's a hill sign? 145 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.399 Mister Hancock and mister Adams, Sir there through the window, 146 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.680 tall handsome man and the short man with. 147 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:09.680 Face like a bulldog. 148 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.240 Wouldn't no sun? The strangers to me get up. 149 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:18.399 Then he got to Boston. 150 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.160 He began to feel queer, and it wasn't only his tooth. 151 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.120 He hadn't been there for four years, and he'd expected 152 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.079 to find it changed, but it wasn't that either. The 153 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.480 sky was clear and beautiful, but Blige felt like there 154 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.759 was thunder in the air. It was uncanny, and the 155 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.720 people there had little nuts of them on the corners, 156 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:42.360 but when he came up to them, they seemed to 157 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:47.360 melt away or then look at you, stop talking. And 158 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.559 then he came to the harbor out there in the 159 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:55.200 port of Boston, riding black and grim with the British warships. 160 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.559 He had no one let be there, of course, but 161 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.919 it was different somehow, seeing them with their guns pointed 162 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.879 in at the town. Suddenly felt uncomfortable, felt it like 163 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.679 to turn and go home, but he was hungry and 164 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.759 so he went to a tavern for a bite. 165 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.399 A good day to you, and what may I do 166 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.879 for you, stranger? Just bite us up. If you're serving, 167 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:39.039 I have a seat, You'll be served. Thank you. Uh 168 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.240 nice weather having these days. 169 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.759 It's bitter weather for Boston. 170 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.840 Well now, maybe for Boston, but out in the country 171 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:50.360 we'd call a good plant weather. 172 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.039 I guess maybe I was mistaken in you. 173 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.399 It is good planting weather for some kind of trees, trees. 174 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.120 Well, now, I I suppose you're right about that. 175 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.559 That's and what kind of trees would you be thinking of. 176 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.720 There's trees and trees you know. 177 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.480 Well, now that you're asking, you might. 178 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.480 The liberty tree, and may it soon be watered in 179 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:14.840 the blood of tyrants. 180 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.480 The Royal oc of England, and God save King George 181 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:17.960 and Lawtey. 182 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:22.879 I didn't live. 183 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:32.000 Glory. 184 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:36.240 I always heard city folks were crazy. But politics must 185 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.759 be getting serious in these American colonies when they start 186 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:39.759 fighting about trees. 187 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.279 Aye and it his friend. 188 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.039 So they threw you out too. 189 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.440 Yes, blesshem, but I want to shake your hand nobly done, 190 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.639 for I'm glad to find another true hearted man loyal 191 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:53.879 to the crown in this pestilent, rebellious city. 192 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.240 Oh wow, I don't know. Hows I quite agree with 193 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:00.679 you about that. But I came here to get my toothfakes, 194 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.960 not to talk about politics. And as long as you've 195 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.360 spoken so pleasant, I wonder if you could help me out. 196 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.159 You see, I'm from Lexington Way, and I'm looking for 197 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:11.720 a fellow named Paul Revere. 198 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.440 Paul Revere, No, so it's Paul Revere. 199 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:18.000 You want my worthy and ingenious friend from the country, Well, 200 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:19.440 I'll tell you how to find him. 201 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.799 Good, I thank you. You go up to the first 202 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.399 British soldier you see and ask. 203 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.039 The way, but you'd better give the password. 204 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:27.240 First password. 205 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.159 Yes, you say to that British soldier any lobsters for 206 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.000 sale today? And then you ask about Revere. 207 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:34.960 But why do I talk about lobsters first? 208 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.279 Well, you see, the British soldiers wear redcoats, so they 209 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.600 like being asked about lobsters. Just try it and see, 210 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:44.039 Just try it, my friend and see. 211 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:57.840 Pardon me, sir? Do you have any lobsters for sale today? 212 00:11:58.200 --> 00:11:58.240 What? 213 00:11:58.679 --> 00:11:58.919 Hold? 214 00:11:59.039 --> 00:11:59.200 Day? 215 00:11:59.279 --> 00:11:59.879 You see the. 216 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:21.879 Barrel place to hide? I'll not wait. 217 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:30.639 Come on, fudge, huh, you can come out now they've 218 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:31.279 gone past. 219 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:33.840 Oh, oh, yes, thank you. 220 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:35.759 Nice. 221 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.360 Look at your clothes. That was a tar barrel you 222 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:40.000 jumped into. 223 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.519 Yes, I'm aside. 224 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:42.799 What were they chasing you for? 225 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.840 I really don't know. I guess I didn't give the 226 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.480 right password. Password, that's but all the same. I don't 227 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.399 think soldiers ought to act like that when you ask 228 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.639 him a several questions. But SETI, folks are soldiers. They 229 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.519 can't make a fool out of me. I came here 230 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:59.320 to get my tooth fixed, and get it fixed as 231 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.679 well if I have to surprise the whole British Kingdom 232 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:02.039 to do it. 233 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.519 Good for you, sir? Can I be of any help 234 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:04.759 to you? 235 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.840 Ah? You can, boy Er, Tell me where I may 236 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:09.399 find the silversmith Paul Revere. 237 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.720 Oh, that's easy. Right before your eyes there's a sign 238 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:14.919 hanging down by the wharf, and that's his shop. 239 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:15.919 I work there. 240 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.000 Well, now, those soldiers did me a good turn after all. 241 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:21.879 Come on, boy and now maybe I'll get my tooth fixed. 242 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:32.200 Then, Liedge Butterwick was in the shop of Paul Revere, silversmith, goldsmith, 243 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:37.720 jack of all trades, sculpturer of artificial teeth, brewer of revolutions, 244 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:44.919 wizard the shop itself was small and dark, with mysterious 245 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:48.759 shadows lurking in the corners, and the bag it was 246 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.120 crammed full of the wondrous products of its owner's skillful hand, 247 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.559 gold and silver, objects of great beauty, Prince of Boston 248 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:02.279 and caricatures were the British odd boxes and bottles filling 249 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.080 the shelves. At this particular moment, it was also full 250 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.799 of customers, and Liede Buttterweight, with the cautious shyness of 251 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.840 the countryman, sank back into a corner seat out of 252 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:18.000 the way, watched as Paul Revere waited on several customers. 253 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:22.720 The last of these was a grand lady who looked 254 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.200 like an irate turkey goblins. 255 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.480 Oh, Master Revere, I am so disappointed. When I took 256 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.960 the things from the box, I could just have cried. 257 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:34.559 It's I whom disappointed, madame. What was the trouble? Must 258 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:36.480 have been carelessly pegged? Was it badly ended? 259 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.320 Now speak the boy? 260 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.679 No, No, it wasn't dhinted. But I wanted a really 261 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:45.080 impressive silver service, something I can use when the Governor 262 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.799 comes to dine with us. I certainly paid for the best, 263 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:49.480 and what have you given me? 264 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.720 I've given you the best work of which I am capable, madam. 265 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.399 It was in my hands for six months, and I 266 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.799 think they're capble hends. Oh, I know you were a 267 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.799 competent artisan, master silversmith. 268 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.120 Well, I don't care what you call it. I know 269 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.039 I wanted a real service, something I could show my friends. 270 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:09.519 And what have you given me? 271 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:09.840 Oh? 272 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.559 It's silver, if you choose, But it's just as plain 273 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:13.480 as a picquet fence. 274 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:20.360 Simple plain. You pay me high compliments, madam, compliments. 275 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.120 Indeed, I'll send it back tomorrow. Why there isn't as 276 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:25.799 much as a lion or a unicorn on the cream jug. 277 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:28.360 And I told you I wanted the sugar bowl covered 278 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:30.879 with silver grapes. But you've given me something as bare 279 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:32.639 as the hills of New England. And I won't stand it. 280 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:34.480 I tell you, I'll send to London instead. 281 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:35.399 Send way, madam. 282 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:41.159 We're making new things in this country, new men, new. 283 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:47.360 Silver perhaps, who knows, a new nation plain, simple, bear 284 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.720 as the hills and rocks a New England, graceful as 285 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.919 the boughs of elm trees. If my silver were only 286 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.519 like that, indeed, that's what I wish to make it 287 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.399 as for you men, them with your lions and unicorns 288 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.440 and grape leaves and your nonsense of bad ornamentation done 289 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.879 by bad silversmiths. You're imported bad taste, and you're imported 290 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:24.120 British manners. Puff away with you, Puff, Puff puff, I say, William, Yes, sir, 291 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.960 put up the shutters. We're closing for the day, oh William, 292 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.679 No word yet from doctor Warren, Not yet, sir. 293 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:33.240 Yeah, what's that? 294 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:34.799 Well? 295 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.720 Who are you there in the corner? Well, mister Vere 296 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.240 it is mister Vere. Yes, yes, of course it's a 297 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.759 kind of a long story, but closing or not. You 298 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:46.600 got to listen to me. 299 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.039 The barber told me so, the barber. 300 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.720 You say, I'm large, Butterwick and that's my toes on toes. 301 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:01.000 You'd better begin at the beginning. We now, Yeah, you 302 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.720 don't talk like a Boston man. Where'd you come from? 303 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:05.359 Around Lexington Way? 304 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.880 And you see Yton? Were you there this morning? 305 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.559 But of course I was. That's where the barber. 306 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.319 I never mind barber or miss Hancock and mister Adams 307 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:15.400 still at passing clocks? 308 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:19.039 Well they might have been for all I know, but 309 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:19.839 I couldn't say. 310 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.000 Great heaven is there a man in the American colonies. 311 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:23.920 Who don't know miss Hancock and mister Adams. 312 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:29.000 Oh there seems to be me. But speaking of strangers, 313 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.960 there was two of them staying at the Passonage when 314 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.640 I rode past. One was a handsome man. 315 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.480 The other man looked more like a bulldog. 316 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:42.119 So they still live and they're British ready to match. 317 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:45.880 Did you see many soldiers as you give me my Shopwick? 318 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:49.160 See them? They chased me into a tire barrow was 319 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.319 hold past. All of them by the common with guns 320 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.200 and flags, looked as if they meant business. 321 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:58.599 Thank you, Misseddwick. You're a shrewd obsever You've done me 322 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.200 and the colonies and invaluable service. 323 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:01.839 Ah. 324 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:06.119 That's nice to know. But speaking of this too, you're 325 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:07.359 a stubborn man, mister Wick. 326 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.400 All the better. I like stubborn men. 327 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.400 I wish we had more of them. 328 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.480 Well, one good time serves another. 329 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:17.599 You've helped me. 330 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:19.319 I'll do my best for you. 331 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:25.000 I've made artificial teeth, but drying them is hardly my trade. 332 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:28.799 All the same, it's I have a look heah, come 333 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:29.759 over here in the light I. 334 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:32.839 Now open ah. 335 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.920 Ye, well, mister by the Wick, it appears to. 336 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.799 Be compound a glutinated infraction of the upper mola. And 337 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.279 I'm afraid I can't do anything about it tonight. But 338 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.160 but here's a draft that will. 339 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:51.359 Ease the pain for a while. There. 340 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.000 Drink mhm hm. 341 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:09.559 It's it's spicy and uh and queer. Never mind. Now 342 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.559 you go to a tavern, get a night dress, come 343 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.880 back see me in the morning. I'll find a truth 344 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:22.640 draft out for you if i'm here. Oh, yes, you'd 345 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:23.559 best have some lineament. 346 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:24.160 Uh. 347 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.599 That's a queer kind of shop you have here, mister Avera. 348 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.559 Some folks think so, say what's in that little bottle where? 349 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:41.200 Oh that's a little chemical experiment of mine. I call 350 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.319 it essence Seboston. But there's a good deal of the 351 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:49.240 East wind essen Se Boston. Well, they did say it 352 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:55.480 was a wizard. It's genuine magic. I suppose genuine magic, 353 00:19:55.640 --> 00:20:02.079 of course. And here here's the with your liniment. No, no, 354 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:08.039 not that one, this one, I thank you. But that 355 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.480 other little box are the little silver woman with the 356 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.599 stars on it and the elm tree. Yes you like it, 357 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.000 pick it up? Mighty party work. 358 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:23.160 Thank you? My own design. Thirteen stars there see them? 359 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:28.039 You could make a very pretty design with stars for 360 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:32.759 a new country seat if you wanted to. I've sometimes 361 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:33.160 thought of it. 362 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.079 But what's in the box? It feels queer? 363 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.839 What's in it? What's in the air? 364 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:40.839 Round us? 365 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:48.519 Gun pounder war, making of a new nation? The time 366 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.759 isn't right yet, not quite ripe. 367 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:58.200 I mean that this here revolution that folks keep talking about. Yes, 368 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.279 in that spot, glory. 369 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:05.680 B Master Revere, It's come, It's come, the message from 370 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:06.640 doctor Warren. 371 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:09.759 William My writing boots. 372 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:11.880 Now hurry, I must be off. Sorry, miss Butterwick, but 373 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:16.319 I must rush you. Take your linamund and come back tomorrow. Yes, Hick, 374 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:18.720 I'll help you. Yes, say say. 375 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.319 It wasn't till Liedge Butterwick was alone in his room 376 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:26.079 at the tavern, where he was to stay the night, 377 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.519 and he realized what he had done. In the bustle 378 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:35.279 and haste of leaving mister Revere's shop. He had picked 379 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:38.799 up the wrong box instead of the box of linament. 380 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:43.000 He held in his hand, the little silver box with 381 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:50.559 the thirteen stars upon it. He hadn't quite believed mister 382 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:54.960 Revere when he talked about the box, and then everything 383 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.880 had seemed so almighty queer since he had arrived in 384 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:01.640 Boston and his tooth ache, and his head felt light, 385 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.759 and he, being human, was curious. He looked for a keyhole, 386 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.960 but there was none. The box wouldn't open. He shook 387 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.519 it suddenly it felt warm, as if there was something 388 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:32.240 alive inside it. He held it to his ear, Great Godfrey, 389 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.480 now Laijah. Butterwick was feeling scared, but he was feeling 390 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:41.599 kind of good too, And then he found out that 391 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:42.720 he was talking to himself. 392 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:46.680 Well, I'm not a Britisher, I'm a new Englander, and 393 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:51.519 maybe there's something beyond there, something people like Handcott Adams 394 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:54.759 know a bar and if it has to come with 395 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:59.240 a revolution, well I guess it has to come. Can't 396 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.640 stay British as here in this country. But what am 397 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.519 I going to do with this box? Do big a 398 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:09.400 job for one man? Guess we'll have to take this 399 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:10.359 back to Paul Revere. 400 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.440 First he went to the little shop on clark Swharf, 401 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:23.079