One who can counteract these infiuences is entitled to more credit employdemurred at first, but finally accepted thewould than he who&fights in the ranks." Crosby should see die in their service the committee ment of a spy on the condition that if he that his name was vindicated. Witli much feeling Mr. Jay and his associates gave him this task. arduous and dangerous his to himself solemn assurance, and Crosby consecrated Carrying a pass from the committee, which was to be used only in cases of extreme necessity, and disguised as a traveling cobbler, he set out on his secret mission to discover and entrap the bands of Tories forming under cover. This was in the late fall of 1776. Very shortly he applied for a shoemaker's job at a farm-house, and discovering that a royalist company was being enlisted in the vicinage, professed a desire to enlist, but declined to give his name because the roll might fall into the hands of the rebels. He gained the confidence of the Tory leaders so completely that he was allowed to examine the roll, and was shown an immense haystack in a meadow near the captain's house, which proved to be a framework covered with hay and capable of concealing forty or fifty men. A meeting of the company having been arranged for the next evening, he left his bed in the captain's house during the night ^previous, reported to the committee at White Plains, and was back in his bed before