"
"Then I'll go and enlist under Captain Venn," cried Jeph.
"Not so fast, my lad. What I gave you leave for was to fight with
the devil."
"You said the good Cause!"
"And can you tell me which be the good Cause?"
"Why, this here, of course. Did not you hear the Captain's good
words, and see his long sword, and didn't they give five marks for
Croppie's bull calf?"
"Fine words butter no parsnips," slowly responded Kenton.
"But," put in Steadfast, "butter is risen twopence the pound."
"Very like," said Kenton, "but how can that be the good Cause that
strips the Churches and claps godly ministers into jail?"
Jephthah thought he had an answer, but fathers in those times did not
permit themselves to be argued with.
Prices began going up still higher, for the Cavaliers were reported
to be on their way to besiege Bristol, and the garrison wanted all
the provisions they could lay in, and paid well for them. When
Kenton and his boys went down to market, they found the old walls
being strengthened with earth and stones, and sentries watching at
the gates, but as they brought in provisions, and were by this time
well known, no difficulty was made about admitting them.
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