Emerson, "and I shall be glad to spend the
night here and see the town and the buildings I heard him talk so much
about."
"Why don't we get out, then?"
"We're going now to Bennington, Vermont."
"Vermont! Into another state!" exclaimed Ethel Blue.
"When we come back we'll leave the car here."
"Are those the Green Mountains?" asked Dorothy as the trolley ran into
a smoother country than they had been in while traveling in the
Berkshires, but one which showed a background of long wooded ranges
rising length after length against the sky.
"Those are the Green Mountains; and this is the 'Green Mountain State,'
and the men who fought in the Revolution under Ethan Allen were the
'Green Mountain Boys'."
"But, ranged in serried order, attent on sterner noise,
Stood stalwart Ethan Allen and his 'Green Mountain Boys'
Two hundred patriots listening as with the ears of one,
To the echo of the muskets that blazed at Lexington!"
quoted Mrs. Emerson. "They were bound northward to the British fort at
Ticonderoga."
"Did they get there?"
"They took the British completely by surprise. That was in May, 1775.
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