SUSIE ROLLIFF'S CHRISTMAS by EDWARD PAYSON ROE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Two young men from a small Connecticut town named Opinquake join General Putnam's army as it digs in around Boston in an effort to disrupt the British hold on Boston during the American revolution. Both men have vied for the affection of the girl they left behind, and only one will win in the end.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagadorn. |
| 0:35.5 | Today a special story for Christmas by Edward Payson Rowe called Susie Rollip's Christmas. |
| 0:41.9 | This story takes us back to the time of the American Revolution. |
| 0:46.0 | This story was published in his collection, Taken Alive, and other stories with an autobiography, |
| 0:51.0 | 1992. |
| 0:55.0 | Picnicing in December would be a dreary experience |
| 0:58.0 | even if one could command all the appliances of comfort |
| 1:01.0 | which outdoor life permitted. This would be especially true in |
| 1:05.2 | the latitude of Boston and on the bleak hills overlooking that city and its |
| 1:09.4 | environment waters. Dreyery business indeed, Ezekiel Watkins regarded it as he shivered over the smoky campfire which he maintained with difficulty. |
| 1:20.0 | The sun was sinking into the southwest so early in the day that he remarked irritably, |
| 1:25.0 | darned if it was worthwhile for it to rise at all. |
| 1:28.0 | Ezekiel Watkins, or Zeek, as he was generally known among his comrades, had ceased to be a resident on that rocky |
| 1:35.0 | hillside from pleasure. |
| 1:37.1 | His heart was in a Connecticut valley in more senses than one, and there was not a more homesick |
| 1:41.7 | soldier in the Army. |
| 1:44.0 | It will be readily guessed that the events of our story occurred more than a century ago. |
| 1:49.0 | The shots fired at Bunker Hill had echoed in every nook and corner of the New England colonies, and the heart of |
| 1:55.1 | Zeke Watkins, among thousands of others, had been fired with military ardor. |
| 2:01.1 | With companions in like frame of mind he had trudged to Boston, breathing slaughter and |
| 2:05.9 | extermination against the red-coated instruments of English tyranny. |
| 2:10.1 | To Zeke, the expedition had many of the elements of an extended bear hunt, much exalted. |
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