Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-13
CHAPTER xxx CONTINUED.


less forest of gloomy pine. through
which heavy, sandy road crept ir
lurid and melancholy shade. Here and
there a miserable hut occurred tc
view, with a few ragged inmates, sur
rounded by all the signs of squalid
poverty. The principal population
were only to be seen along the banks
of the rivers which penetrated into this
region, some twenty or thirty miles
distant from each other. The alluvial
bottoms through which these streams
found a channel to the ocean, were the
only tracts of land of sufficient fer
tility to afford support to man-al
between them was a sterile and gloomy
forest.
Still, these regions were not desert
ed. Bodies of irregular troops, ILL
clothed and worse armed, and generally
bearing the haggard features Of dis
ease, such as mark the population OF
a sickly climate, were often encounter
ed upon the road, directing their wear
led march towards the headquarters OF
the republican army. The rigors of the
southern summer had not yet abated;
and 1t was with painful steps in the
deep SAND amid clouds of suffocating
dust, thar these little detachments
prosecuted their journey.
Mildred, so far from sinking under
the weariness and increasing hardships
of her present tolls, seemed to be en-
dued with a capacity for sustaining
them much beyond anything that could
have been believed of her sex. Her
courage grew with the difficulties that
beset her. She looked composedly up
on the obstacles before her, and en-
countered them, not only without a
murmur, but even with cheerfulness
to which she had hitherto been a stran-
ger. The steadiness of her onward
march. her unrepining patience, and
the gentle solicitude with which she
turned the thoughts OF her companions
from herself, and forbade the SUPPOSE
ton that her powers were overtaxed,
showed how deeply her feelings were
engaged In her enterprise, and how
maturely her mind had taken its reso-
luton.
"One never would have guessed"
said Horse Shoe, towards the close Of
the second day after they had entered
North Carolina, that a lady so dain-
tily nursed as you was at home, Mis-
tress Mildred could have ever borne
this here roughing of 1t through these
piney woods. But have made one OBJ
servation, Miss Lindsay, that no one
can tell what they are fit for till they
are tried; and on the back of that l
have another, that when there's
great stir that rouses up whole
country, it don't much signify wheth-
all get reused alike. 'Pon my
word ma'am, / have seen men-who
think themselves sodgers too-that
would be unwilling to trust themselves
at this time O year through such a
dried up piece of pine barren as we
have been travelling over for two days
past"
You remember the fable of the will
low and the oak, Mr.. Robinson" replied
Mildred, smiling; the storm may bring
shrub will bend before 1t without
breaking"
Pm not much given to religious TAX
ings-on," said the sergeant, but some
times a notion comes into my head
that looks a little that way, and that
is when God appoints thing to be
done, he gives them that's to do 1t al
the wherewithals. Now, as Major But
Ter Is a good man and brave sodger-
God bless him!-it does seem right that
you Mistress Lindsay-who, l take or
me to understand enough of your con-
sarns and his'n, without offence, to say
has a leaning towards the major-l say
It does seem right and natural that yor
should lend a hand to help him out OF
tribulation; and so you see the cause
being a good cause, the Lord has giver
you both wisdom and strength to dc
what is right"
country: and we serve God and Oul
country both, when we strengthen the
hands of its defenders"
That's a valiant speech, young lady
and it's noble speech" said Horse
Shoe, with an earnest emphasis. g.
have often told the major that the wo'
men of this country had as hones
thoughts about this here war, and wa:
as warm for our cause as the men; ant
some of them, perhaps, little warm
er. They could be pitted against th'
women of any quarter of the aqueou:
globe, in bearing and forbearing both
when 1t is for the good of the country.
Henry is asleep on his horse sale
Mildred, looking at her brother wh(
now, jaded and worn with the effort o
travel, was nodding and dropping hi:
head forward, and almost losing hi
seat What, Henry, brother" sh'
added, loud enough to rouse up th'
young horseman. MY trusty cavalier
are you going to fall from your horse
Where is all that boasted glorificatio.
upon which you were disposed to b'
so eloquent only a week ago?
thought a man on horseback was nat
urally proud: fear il was only on hol'
iday occasions you meant, Henry
Haven't you a word for a sunny da!
and a dry journey? You lag more like
a miller's boy with his bag of meal
than young soldier setting out on hi:
adventures"
"Ah sister" said Henry waking up
this is nothing put pine-pine-ant
sand. without end. There is no game
i'm the woods to keep a man on th'
lookout. except here and there a hero
of wild hogs. that snort and run from
u.s. like squadron of cavalry, will
their bristles set up on their backs a
fierce as the back fin of a sunfish
There is not even grass to look at: yOl
might see a black snake running hal
a mile amongst the trees. And theI