The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-05-07

"DNuI yOu dii, anu III not scared
about where I'm going to land.
Maybe I've made my mistakes. Mr..
Findley, but I'm going to marry
Polly, and I've just come to tell you
all about It."
Mr.. Findley looked at the tall and
earnest young man and presently
gave a chuckle.
"Davy," said he, II haven't a thing
against you. You're straight as n
string, don't conceal thing. You're
the best shot in this neck of woods,
and you're not scared. l notice at q
house-raisin' you always carry your
end OF log, and you don't shirk. If
any fellow is good enough for my
Polly. / reckon you are, but you're
got to see her mother first" The
two looked at each other with a GER
tain uneasiness.
I'D rather face the biggest bear
in the hills" said Davy, but reckon
I'll go ahead"
So. presently, indeed, he found
Polly's mother, and approached her
with equal directness.
Ma am" said he, II Just lowed
I'd tell you I'm going to marry Polly
next Thursday, If some other fellow
doesn't get her before then"
There long remained memory in
all that countryside of the tongue
flashing which voluble Mrs. Findley
gave this presumptuous sutton. She
pointed out to him that he was too
young to marry, that he had no fam
lily, no property, no prospects. Yet
through it all Davy made the same
straightforward and manly answer.
What you say is true, ma'am,"
said he. 1--WE go no knife or fork or
plate to put in my cabin. I've got
not even a rife, for l threw in nv
rifle to finish paying off that note of
my dads to old man Kennedy. I'll
be married in my moccasin feet, and
when Polly takes me that's all she
does take. But she can spin, and
when I need a shirt she can make it.
I'll get a rife somewhere. Polly
says she'll teach me how to read and
write better than / do. l tell you,
ma am, you can't stop me and Polly.
You can't stop us gettin' on. 1 am
sure I'm right, and now I'm goin'
ahead!"
And so, indeed, Davy Crockett did
go ahead. Polly's mother for a time
remained unappeased, but the young
sutton told Polly that on the follow
ing Thursday he would bring a horse
for her and that she must then be
ready to leave. The young montain
girl was as plucky as her wooer and
agreed to this.
To the last hour Mrs. Findley re-
NAMED hostile" as Davy expressed
1t, but relented at last, as she saw
her daughter about to leave her.
Then she called the young people into
the house, told Davy to send for the
parson, and so the wedding went on
merrily at Polly's home.
And Polly's mother from that time
on was kind. 1t was she who gave
the young couple twocows and calves
to add to their scanty stock on thd
small farm which Davy rented near
by. Good Quaker Kennedy likewise
came to their assistance and gave
Davy an order on the country store
for SIS worth of goods. This fixed
us up pretty grand" said Davy.
Such was the start in life of Davy
OAO~hVNNs IlC 6OI ulS SCnOOluB III
great part from the kindly tuition of
the mountain girl who in this abrupt
fashion became his wife. She was
his faithful companion when, a few
years later, they took their two little
sons and all their household goods
and, packing everything on two young
horses, started across the mountains
to Lincoln County, where Davy took
up land of his own at the head of the
Mulberry fork OF the Elk River.
This removal was the first step
outward and upward of Davy Crock
EFT, later one of the worlds famous
figures-Davy Crockett, the soldier,
the bear hunter, the legislator, the
Congressman; a man who never de-
MED his lowly birth or his own ig-
norance, but who never ceased to
study and to learn; who scorned any
political creed which did not tally
with his own ideas of honor and
truthfulness. and who finally, far
away from the State which bore him,
met his death like a man and a gall
liant gentleman in that fight which
made the Alamo of old San Antonio
one of the earth's sacred shrines of
heroism.-Youth's Companion.