The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-08-10

iuu wdE going to England for visit,
the summer was coming on. and both
fathers thought 1t would be a great
benefit 10 their sons. Even Mrs. Dale,
on whom the hunter had made & most
agreeable impression, smiled and said
she would already be willing to trust
her son with their new guest any
where.
Il shall take good care Of him,
madam" said Dave with q bow.
Colonel Dale, too, was greatly taken
with the stranger, and he asked many
questions of the new land beyond the
mountains. There was dancing again
that night, and the hunter, towering
head above them all, looked on with
smiling interest. He even took part
in square dance with Miss Jane VIII
loughby, handling his great bulk with
astonishing grace and lightness of
foot. Then the elder gentlemen went
into the drawing-room to their port
and pipes, and the boy Erskine slipped
after them and listened enthralled to
the talk of the coming war.
Colonel Dale had been I'm Hanover
Henry voiced the Nrst intimation of
independence In Virginia; Henry,
cou try storekeeper bankrupt;
farmer-bankrupt storekeeper again,
ana bankrupt again; an idler, hunter,
usher, and Story-teller-even a "bar-
Keeper as Mr.. Jefferson once dubbed
MIN, because Henry had once helped
his father-in-law to keep tavern. That
far. back Colonel Dale had heard
Henry denounce the clergy, stigmatize
the king as tyrant who had forfeit
ed all claim to obedience, and had
seen the orator caught up on the
shoulders of the crowd and amidst
shouts of applause borne around the
courthouse green. He had seen the
same Henry ride into Richmond two
years later on a lean horse: with pa.
pers In his saddle-pOckets, his ex-
preston grim, his tall figure stoop.
Ing, a peculiar twinkle in his small
blue eyes, his brown wig without pow.
der his coat peach-blossom in color.
his knee-breeches of leather, and his
stockings of yarn. The speaker OF
the Burgesscs was on dais under
red canopy supported by gilded rods
and the clerk sat beneath with
mace on the table before him, but
Henry cried for liberty or death, and
the shouts of treason failed then and
there to save Virginia for the king
The lads brain whirled. What did
all this mean? Who was this king and
what had he done2 He had known
but the one from whom he had run
away When he got Dave alone he
would learn and learn and learn
everything And then the young
people came quietly in and sat down
quietly, and Colonel Dale, divining
what they wanted, got Dave started
on stories OF the wild Wilderness that
was his hOme--the first chapter I'm the
Had of kentucky-the land Of dark
forests and cane thickets that sepa-
rated Catawbas, Creeks and Chero.
KEGS on the south from Delawares.
Wyandottes and Shawnees on the
north, who fought one another, and
nil Of whom the whites must fight.
How the first fort was built. and the
first women stood on the banks of the
Kentucky river. He told of the perlS
md hardships of the first Journeys
thither-fghts with wild beasts and
wild men, chases, hand-to-hand com
bats, escapes and massacres and
/! only the breathing OF his listeners
could be heard, save the sound of his
own voice. And he came finally TO
The atorS .Qf The "a 5faek on. .fhexas,l1..