He glanced glance at his watch , then absently took take from his pocket a bunch of small keys , selected select one and looked look at it .

They had recently seen a chosen army from that country , which , reverencing as a mother , they had blindly believed invincible -- an army led by a chief who had been selected select from a crowd of trained warriors , for his rare military endowments , disgracefully routed route by a handful of French and Indians , and only saved save from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy , whose riper fame has since diffused itself , with the steady influence of moral truth , to the uttermost confines of Christendom .

The reputation earned earn by Washington in this battle battle was the principal cause of his being selected select to command the American armies at a later day .

This little boy stepped step forward and carefully selected select three of the coveted fragments , two of which he buried bury in the pocket of his knickerbockers , depositing deposit the other as promptly in another place .