Knickerbocker Stories From the Old Dutch Days of New York
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44 KNICKERBOCKER STORIES, II/>.— HOAV WILLIAM THE TESTY DE- FENDED THE CITY. AS DESCEIBED IN KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK, BOOK IV., CHAPTER IV.' Language canuot express the prodigious fury into which the testy Wilhelmus Kieft was thrown by this provoking intelligence.'' For three good hours the rage of the little man was too great for words, or rather the words were too great for him ; and he was nearly choked by some dozen huge, mis- shapen, nine-cornered Dutch oaths, that crowded all ...at once into his gullet. Having blazed off the first broadside, he kept up a constant firing for three whole days — anathematizing the Yankees, man, woman, and child, body and soul, for a set of dievcn, schobbejaken, deugenieten, twist-zoekeren, loozen- schalken, blaes-kaken, kakken-bedden,^ and a thousand other names, of which, unfortunately for posterity, history does not make mention. Finally, he swore tliat he would have nothing more to do with such a squatting, bundling, guessing, ques- tioning, swapping, pumpkin-eating, molasses-daubing, shingle- splitting, cider-watering, horse-Jockeying, notion-peddling crew — that they might stay at Fort Goed Hoop and rot, before he would dirty his hands by attempting to- drive them away ; in proof of which, he ordered the new-raised* troops to be marched forthwith into winter-quarters, althongli it was not as yet quite mid-summer.
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