# Count To A Million Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 158
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3145 "2020-06-07T03:06:11Z")
3275 He did not come in the dawning. He did not come at noon; ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3146 "2020-06-07T03:55:20Z")
3276 And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon, _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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3277 When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor, ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3148 "2020-06-07T05:22:49Z")
3278 A redcoat troop came marching, marching, marching ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3149 "2020-06-07T05:58:23Z")
3279 King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn-door. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3150 "2020-06-07T17:58:17Z")
3280 They said no word to the landlord. ---
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3281 They drank his ale instead. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3152 "2020-06-07T23:54:56Z")
3282 They gagged his daughter and and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed… ---
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3283 Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side! ---
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3284 There was death at every window; ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3155 "2020-06-08T12:10:57Z")
3285 And hell at one dark window; ---
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3286 For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that _he_ would ride. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3157 "2020-06-09T07:40:30Z")
3287 They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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3288 They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/3159 "2020-06-09T15:47:58Z")
3289 “Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her. She heard the doomed man say— ---
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3290 Look for me by moonlight; ---
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3291 Watch for me by moonlight; ---
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3292 I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! ---
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3293 She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! ---
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