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first 
muster 
of 
the 
troops 
under 
the 
command 
sight of men 
of Colonel Wayne, and the 
in arms, 
their 
P"1'P0se 
and 
array, 
warmed his lively ima- 
gination 
with 
military enthusiasm. 
In conjunc- 
tion with a son of the Colonel, 
boy of 
3 
his own 
age, 
with 
whom 
he 
had 
become 
acquainted, 
he 
procured 
R 
gun, 
and determined also to be a sol- 
dier. 
Young 
Wayne 
W38 
drilled 
by 
the 
disci- 
plinarians of 
his father's 
corps, 
and 
in 
turn, 
exercised West, who, 
being more alert and active, 
SOOII 
obtained 
decided 
superiority ; 
but 
what 
were attached to them! 
different destinies 
West 
attained, 
has 
in 
the 
intellectual discipline 0? 
the 
enviable reputation; and VVayne, 
arts of peace, an 
who 
VVHS 
inferior 
to 
hi m 
in 
the 
manual 
of 
the 
soldier, 
became 
illustrious 
commander, 
and 
partook, 
as the companion 
HTIIIS 
in 
of 
Washi ug- 
of the 
glory of 
having 
established 
inde- 
the 
pendence of America. 
The 
martial 
preparations 
inspired 
all 
the 
youths 
of 
Pennsylvania 
with 
the 
love 
of 
arms, 
"and diffused the principles of 
that 
military spirit 
which 
WEIS 
afterwards 
exerted 
with 
SO 
much 
efil-act against the erroneous policy of 
the 
mother