Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
The Story Of Nancy Hart
Which in Itself Is a Moving Tale and in the Hands
of the Writer Becomes Something That Is
SymboHc-of Something.

hives. She was also very fond OF load
ing and shooting guns.
When the Revolutionary War broke
out, the -BritiShers, or Tories,
possessed themselves of most of Mrs
Harris part of Georgia. The pro-
Americans, or Wings proceeded, most
of them, to move away. Mrs. Hart
stayed. She kept by her side the poor
stick" to which she was married.
He captured no Tories, though Mrs
Hart every day urged him on. All the
local immediate capturing Of them had
to be done by her.
Didn't Stay Captive.
One day. quite near her house, she
encountered a Tory walking by. She
engaged him in conversation. AS he
comfortably rested his gun on the
ground in order the better to converse
She seized it from him He endeavored
to recover it. Naturally he was not
strong enough to succeed. No man
could wrench gun back from Mrs
Hart. Mrs. Hart continued in poses
sion of the gun, leveled it at the Tory
and marched him to the Wing fortifi-
cation known as 1.-The old block house
She did not slay that Tory. He must
have been very inoffensive and un-
irritating man. The Tories whom
MlS. r1dib dIu oldy eliloySu iSL very
much.
They came to her house and entered
it without permission. They killed her
last turkey gobbler They made her
cook 1t for them. She swore at them
loudly and plainly, but they persisted.
There were five of them. The poor
stick" was out in the fields on the
other side of the woods.
The five Tories stacked their guns
inside the house. Mrs. Hart managed
to push one Of these guns through a
chink between two logs in one Of the
walls of the house 1t fell unobserved
to the ground outside. Mrs. Hart then
in the same way distracted a second
Tory gun and in the same way con-
veyed 1t to the outdoors. She was put
ting her hands upon third gun when
she was detected.
Demands Surrender.
She thereupon raised this third gun
to her shoulder and aimed It in the
general direction of all five of the
Tories, who, because of her crossed
eyes, were In some doubt as to which
one Of them It was that she had picked
for her instant victim. One of them,
though. moved. Mrs. Hart fired. A
Tory fell dead.
With a second musket Mrs. Hart
lieu eBdHl. n seCOHu lOIy Iell WOunGed.
With the third of the three muskAts
still left in the house, Mrs. Hart now
covered the three remaining standing
Tories and Immortality exclaimed:
Surrender your damned Tory car
cases to a Wing woman"
They surrendered.
The poor stick" at that moment ar
rived back from the fields and wished
to have the three captured Tories shot,
thus indicating once more his feeble
ness Of spirit.
Shoot them?" said Mrs Hart.
Shooting is too good for them"
She accordingly bound them and took
them outdoors and hanged them with a
little help from the poor stick" and
some friends
In her old age she became not only
a fervent but a shouting" Methodist.
Thus reads the real record Of the
lady 10 whom We are now reverently
erecting tablet or marker Moral:
We men must have needed lot Of
nerve TO be so chivalrous and so pro-
tective as to keep our women away so
long from the roughneSs of voting.
Copyright, 1917