Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-18

ble," but he is not going to use them
for that purpose. They recall the road
to Henry Bradley's place and the
pretty girl driving the muddy gray
horse and buggy. The Rambler step
ped out Of the road to let the gray
horse splash by, and the pretty girl
saying Whoa" to the gray horse the
Rambler asked her please to tell him
where he was going, where he would
be when he got there. and how far
he would have to walk to the car line
If he stuck to that road and didn't
stick in it. He knows it was a cold
day because he remembers that after
marking down that note about got
to be an optimist to see beauty in
pines and sedge on a day like this"
he built a fire by the side of the road
and warmed himself.
X X X X
That note about the optimism and
pines was not to be used as the RAM
bier has just done; it was his tip to
himself that at the proper point in
ihe "ramble" he should write a full
description of the landscape; that the
road passed through dark. roaring
pines, and that off both sides of tho
road beyond the pines were rolling
nelds where gray and yellow wisps
OF sedge were whipped and dashed by
the wind. And. although it was
day when the Rambler found it de-
slraole to light a fire by the road
side his notes contain the significant
word, robins" There was no first
robin this spring. Many members OF
the species spent the winter here.
Whether they were robius who spent
last summer here. or whether thew
were robins that had come from more
northerly parts and concluded that
at this point they had gone far
enough south for food and comfort.
the Rambler does not know.
In last Sundays narrative" the
Rambler promised to present a letter
from an eminent woman in Leesburp
Va, who has good deal of informa-
ton about Montgomery county folk
The letter follows:
Having been so interested in your Coos.
:, '' i""oieS am even more so in
."e rersimmon Tree lane wanderings, and nm
inc'osins clipping to be returned to mo
nave wondered since reading your first ramb,e
III montgomery II Parson Hunt would apnre 4,
your sketches. as have read of him in tho
history OF Illinois and life and times Of N,niop
Ed"ards. This book can he gotten at the Cor.
gressiohal Library. In the Clipping ;nc,osad
20" VIII see that the descendants NJ N,r;.,
neah TOOK part In the unwilling Mt Potomac
Church.
Nlnian Beall. son Of Ninian, in 1777 deedea
property on the same day TO the fol,ow,no
daughters: susannah, wife of Alexander Pat.
'en' una hachei. wife Of Hardage Lane An.
other daughter, Mary Watkins, later her two
sons THOMAS and Gassaway. were left the
pace on which Ninian lived. son, Charles
beail, had died without heirs, and nnother
daughter, Ruth Beall. married Capt. Charles
Iassaway. They were the ancestors Of Judpe
EDWARD Peter and his brother and sisters NJ
Rockville, their mother having been Layinis
Oassaway, daughter Of John and his wife
Elisa Dorsey, n direct descendant Of Hon. John
Dorsey "f Lord Baltimore's council and alan ~
Judge Edward Dorsey. Margaret Beall, daush.
ter OF Ninian Of Ninian, married BENJAMIN "a
wards Of Virginia. They lived nine miles from
ROCKVILLE. The Oldest son. Einias Edwards. was
a pupil Of Rev. James Hunt. q Presbyterian
minister. who taught school at Montgomery
Court House. fellow.studeat was william
Writ. who later became the tutsr TO yeu,,
Edwards.
E'lener Beall, daughter Of Ninian Of Nipian,
'narsieds zachaRiah Onutt. They Asa several