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There was great excitement at Oakland during the John Brown raid, and / the boys' grandmother used to pray for him and Cook, whose pictures / were in the papers.
The boys became soldiers, and drilled punctiliously with guns which / they got Uncle Balla to make for them. Frank was the captain, Willy / the first lieutenant, and a dozen or more little negroes composed the / rank and file, Peter and Cole being trusted file-closers.