Evening star., 1921-10-16
THE RAMBLER WRITES OF PEOPLE AND
PLACES IN ACCOTINK CREEK VICINITY

get your name in the papers, but she
was a little stingy otherwise. Alto
gether she WAS q most charming and
delightful woman! She used to rido
with me when she went calling. when
she went to market, when she went
to church and when she went to the
theater. She never rode In a street
car after her husband became q
profiteer!
Bye and bye the little home down
on the Eastern branch became too
far removed from the social center
and the family moved up on tho
Avenue of the Presidents. or tho
Avenue. of the Ambassadors, or it
may have been the Avenue of the
Secretaries or only the Avenue OF the
Chief Clerks. After that I was sold
at auction and came out here In this
fair county. Oh, no! Mr.. Rambler.
am not SO old as you think. If 1
had a good fresh coat OF paint. soIno
face enamel and 4 few other artificial
things to make me up I could look
as young as many Of your old women
in the city,"
BY this time Trix, Prince, Christian.
the surrey and the Rambler had come
to the point where the Warrenton
pike turns off from the Little river
pike. The road is clay. yellow for
the most part, but turning. to red IN
some places. There are two short
hills just beyond the convict camp
at the fork Of the pixies, and from the
top Of the second rise you get your
first glimpse of the Bull Run noun
tains. In fair weather the range is
cut like a bright blue cameo against
Il light blue sky. The road is fringed
with all the Wild shrubbery Of the
region and some of the sassafras
boughs had flung out red leavee ~
a welcome to autumn. and bushes OF
dwarf sumac and staghorn sumac
We're turning crimson. Scrub oak,
black and red, and the vines, green
briar and honeysuckle. were as green
as they were in sDring.
Many clearings opened on each eide
of the road, and in these clearingS
We're homes-some homelike and in
viting, some with run n-down air. In
the priin homes you may find unge-
homes you may f}nd kind and gentle
folk. You cannot tell from the out
side what kind Of people live within.
If there is dog around-and there
usu" ly is-you can ct SOC infor-
nation from him as to the character
of the folk who call that home. II
he is 4 kindly, friendly dog, 50 are
so are the people.
The Rambler and his travelling
friends soon = NJ" to The p'an" where
they must turn off. and he bade Chris
tian, Trix, Prince and the surrey
goodbye with the hope of meeting
them soon again. He stopped to
make a call on his old friends along
he raad-ieorge Cool -'h orrno-
father lived in the neighborhood be-
fore him: Mike Nicholson, who has
been there only ten or twelve years
and who lives on the old Tucker
place. which before the civil war was
the hone o. H y ro"krall. and at
n
name has q pleasant Irish sound.
Corpin is blacksmith and Wheel
wright nd shoe old horses a1.l
mend old surreys. He is also 4 car
penter, also timer. and I'll bet q
nickel cigar. which won't draw, that
Corbin could lay brick and mako
shoes if the job were put up to him.
Corbin built the house he lives in,
but in the long ago the land was
tended by an old and good colored
woman who lived In log cabin there.
She was Aunt Harriet. and her full
name was Harriet Lamb. All the old
people in upper Fairfax county knew
Aunt Harriet. She died long ago, and
I her son George. aged only eighty-siN.
is living at the Court House-beg
pardon-at the Cote House.
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THE next place TO corbin oBan'
non y tEe tsalnDIeT sat down IN
a sunny spot to talk and to be talked
to 10y two old friendS-Mr. and Mrs.
Grecnberry C-cnk. His father Charles
came from the moth before the civil
. war and married Virginia girl, Miss
Anne Mills Of Fairfax. They had three
children--Mason Cronk, who lives at
the Eastern Star Home: Charles F.
! Cronl, who IS dead. survived by
three children. and Greenberry Cronk,
who lives by the side of the Warren
ton pike. Greenberry, a good many
years ago, took as his bride Sarah
Thompson, daughter of William Har-
rison Thompson Of Fairfax county,
and Greenberry and Mrs. Cronk have
a daughter, Annie d. Robertson, who
lives in Washington.
farm and then there is the old Wash
ington GoodinG farm and L. E.
Graves picturesque place. which he
has named Wakefield farm.
Pressed fo- t!h'c. the Rambler hur-
ried passed l:s. places and came
into the ham: "a. Lcgato. That Is Il
strange nan -. = village. 1t is not
Allssato. tl:' -"rato. Down ia
Prince George county on the Old
Mud pike is' I. liace called Largo, ard
here i'll Fairfax county l. place
called Legato. So far as the Rambler
can observe, they really are Largo
and Legato. What is needed in this
part of the world are d few places