Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-21

Are we still on your land?"
 Barbara laughed. "Yes; we cant drive around the plantation and get back for dinner. I think we'd better turn now"
 "Plan-ta-tion," said the lad. "What's that?"
 Barbara waved her whip.
 "Why. all this-the land-the farm"
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 "It's called Red Oaks-from those big trees back of the house."
 "Oh. know oaks well-all of 'em."
 She wheeled the ponies and with fresh zest they scampered for home. Everybody had gathered for the nOOn- day dinner when they swung around the great trees and up to the back porch. Just as they were starting in the Kentucky boy gave cry and darted down the path. A towering figure in coonskin cap and hunters garb was halted at the sun-dial and looking toward them.
 "NOw, wonder who that is," said Colonel Dale. Jupiter, but that boy can rum"
 They saw the tall stranger stare wonderingly at the boy and throw back his head and laugh. Then the two came on together. The boy was still flushed but the hunters face was grave.
 This is Dave," said the boy simply. Dave Yandell." added the stranger, smiling and taking off his cap. 'Tve been at Williamsburg to register some lands and l thought I'd come and see how this young man is getting along" Colonel Dale went quickly to meet him with outstretched hand. "rm mighty glad you did," he said heartily. "Erskine has already told us about you. You are just in time for dinner"
 That's mighty kind" said Dave. And the ladies, after he was present. ed still looked at him with much cu- riosity and great interest. Truly, strange visitors were coming to Red Oaks these days.
 That night the subject of Hugh and Harry going back home with the two Kentuckians was DrUached to Colonel Dale, and to the wondering delight to consider 1t favorably. MT. Brock. ton was going to England for visit, the summer was coming on. and botb fathers thought 1t would be great benefit to 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.
 q shall take good care of him, | madam" said Dave with 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 a head above them all, looked on with smiling interest. He even took part in square dance with Miss Jane Will 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 in Hanover ten years before, when one Patrick Henry voiced the first intimation of independence in Virginia; Henry, a cot untry stOrekeeper - bankrupt i; farmer-bankrupt; stOrekeeper again, and bankrupt again; an idler, hunter, l fisher, and stOry-teler-even a "bar- keeper" as MT. Jefferson once dubbed him, 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 l courthouse green. He had seen the same Henry ride into Richmond two years later on lean horse: with pa pers in his saddle-pockets, his eX- pression grim, his tall figure stoOp- ing, 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 Rurgesses was on dais under red canopy supported by gllded rods, and the clerk sat beneath with a 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 done? He had known 1 but the one from whom he had run away. When he got Dave alone he would learn and learn and learn