The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
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ri don't march at nll. stay here.
I'm going to disobey orders"
IF you're going to disobcy orders
you have good reason for doing So"
Il have. It was too late to retreat.
I'm going to fight. hear, Lazarre, you
know how to handle Indians in the
French way"
"AIy Gear Croghan, you insinuate
the American way may be better"
'sIt is on the western border. It may
not be on tie northern"
'Then you would not have advised
my attempting the Indians here"
IT shouldn't have discouraged it.
When I got the secret order said.
Bring the French, bring the mission.
aries, bring anything that will cut the
comb Of Tecumseh""
'aThe missionaries and the French
like being classed with-anything," I
said.
"Wc'rc Americans here" C-oghan
laughed. 1.-THE dauphin may have to
fight in the ditch with the rest Of rs" ::
''Thc dauphin is an American, too,
and used to scars. as you know. Can
you give me any news from Green Bay
in the Wisconsin country"
81 was ordered to Green Bay last
year to sec II anything could be done
with old Fort Edward Augustus"
"Does my Holland court lady i've
there?"
"Not now" he answered soberly.
"'She's dead"
That's bad" I said. thinking Of lost
opportunities.
as pretty Annabel de Chaumont
ever coming back from France"
"Not now; she's married"
''That's worse" he sighed. 81 was
very silly about her when I was q
boy"
We had our supper in bis quarters,
and he busted himself until late in the
night with preparations for defense.
The whole place was full Of cheer and
plenty Of game. and swarmed like lit
tie fair with moving figures. A camp
fire was built at dark in the center Of
the parade ground, hcaped logs send
ing their glow as far as the dark pick
cts. Heads Of families drew toward 1t
while the women were putting their
children to bed, and soldiers of duty
lounged there, the front Of the body in
light, the back In darkness.
Cool forest night air flowed over the
stockade, swaying smoke this way and
that. AS the fire was stirred and
smoke turned to fame it showed more
and more distinctly what dimness had
screened.
A man rose up on the other side Of
II, clothed in a coffee sack, in which
holes were cut for his head and arms.
His hat was a tin kettle with the
handle sticking out behind Ike stiff
cue.
Indifferent to his grotesqucness, nc
took it of and put it on the ground
beside him, standing ready to COM
mand attention.
He was q small, dark, wlry man,
barefooted and barelegged, whose black
eyes sparkled and whose scanty hair
and beard hung down over shoulders
and breast. Some pokes Of leather,
much scratched. hung bulging from the
rope which girded his coffee sack.
From one Of these he took few un-
bound leaves, the fragment Of book,
spread them open and began to read
in chanting, prophetic key something
about the love Of the Lord and the
mysteries Of angels. His listeners kept
their eyes on him, giving an indulgent
ear to spiritual messages that made
less demand on them than the violent
earthly ones to which they were &c
customed.
Its Johnny Appleseed," man at
my side told me, as If the name ex-
planned anything he might do.
When Johnny Appleseed finished
reading the leaves he put them back