CHAPTER XI. FRAGMENTARY

Mr. Boone's visit lasted but a day. I was a great deal with Colonel Clark in the few weeks that followed before his departure for Virginia. He held himself a little aloof (as a leader should) from the captains in the station, without seeming to offend them. But he had a fancy for James Ray and for me, and he often took me into the woods with him by day, and talked with me of an evening.

"I'm going away to Virginia, Davy," he said; "will you not go with me? We'll see Williamsburg, and come back in the spring, and I'll have you a little rifle made."

My look must have been wistful.

"I can't leave Polly Ann and Tom," I answered.

"Well," he said, "I like that. Faith to your friends is a big equipment for life."

"But why are you going?" I asked.

"Because I love Kentucky best of all things in the world," he answered, smiling.

"And what are you going to do?" I insisted.

"Ah," he said, "that I can't tell even to you."

"To catch Hamilton?" I ventured at random.

He looked at me queerly.

"Would you go along, Davy?" said he, laughing now.

"Would you take Tom?"

"Among the first," answered Colonel Clark, heartily.

We were seated under the elm near the spring, and at that instant I saw Tom coming toward us. I jumped up, thinking to please him by this intelligence, when Colonel Clark pulled me down again.

"Davy," said he, almost roughly, I thought, "remember that we have been joking. Do you understand?--joking. You have a tongue in your mouth, but sense enough in your head, I believe, to hold it." He turned to Tom. "McChesney, this is a queer lad you brought us," said he.

1. Where were they seated?
2. What was nearby?
3. Who was walking towards them?
4. Who couldn't leave Polly Ann and Tom?
5. Where was he being asked to go?
6. What city were they going to see?
7. When would they return?
8. What was going to be made for Davy?
9. What does the Colonel love above all else?
10. Who did Davy ask him to take?
11. What did the Colonel call Tom?
12. Who did he think was a strange guy?
13. What did he tell Davy he had enough smarts in his head to do?
14. How long had Mr. Boone's visit been for?
15. Who acted a bit standoffish?
16. Did that upset anyone in the station?
17. Who was in the station?
18. Who did Colonel Clark take a shining to?
19. Where did he take Davy during the day?
20. Did Colonel Clark ever say what he'd be doing when he left?
1. under the elm
2. the spring,
3. Tom
4. Davy
5. Virginia
6. Williamsburg
7. spring
8. a little rifle
9. Kentucky
10. Tom
11. McChesney,
12. Davy
13. to hold it
14. a day.
15. Colonel Clark
16. No
17. captains
18. James Ray and Davy
19. into the woods
20. No