...d, the candles were put out one by one, and the people went to bed; but some were restless and wakeful. Hark! A clatter of hoofs in the village street! Men sprang up and threw the windows wide. Paul Revere had come to summon them to arms. But why did he not go to Lexington by the road he knew the British were to follow, instead of taking time to arouse one little village, off the line of march? ...