danger, but was ready to serve in any way the good of the cause.
His name has long been a favorite one with young and old; one of
the talismanic names of the Revolution, the very mention of which
is like the sound of a trumpet."


REFERENCES

1. Humphreys, Colonel David. Essay on the Life of the Hon.
Major-General Israel Putnam. Boston, 1818.

2. Livingston, William Garrand. Israel Putnam. Pioneer,
Ranger, and Major-General. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York
and London, 1901.

3. Tarbox, Increase N. Life of Israel Putnam ("Old Put").
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Boston, 1876.

4. Fiske, John. "Israel Putnam," in Appleton's Encyclopaedia
of American Biography. Boston, 1891.




THE BULLET-MAKERS OF LITCHFIELD


In the Museum of the New York Historical Society there is a large
flat stone with an inscription cut into one side of it, and in
the other, three deep holes for three legs of a horse. Lying on a