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Boone," said Henry eagerly. "I've heard, too, how you saved Boonesborough and all the other wonderful things that you've done." Boone, the simple and childlike, blushed under his tan, and Simon Kenton spoke for the first time. "Now don't you be teasin' Dan'l," he said. "He's done all them things that people talk about, an' more, too, that he's hid, but he's plum' bashful.
Things got so bad that Kenton said we would have to give up, for, tough as he was, he was weakening. The snow was driving so hard you couldn't see six feet in front of you. Cold! Well, the wind was of that kind that it went right through your bones as though it was a knife. Night was coming on, and we were in the middle of the woods, twenty miles from everywhere.
In the account of this very incident he places it in '77, and says Kenton then accompanied Clark to the Illinois. Boon and Kenton have always been favorite heroes of frontier story, as much so as ever were Robin Hood and Little John in England.
I don't want to see their old town; and I shall ask nothing better than to spend the day with you here at our own fireside. You can sew, and I I'll read to you, Bessie!" This was a little too gross; even Mrs. Kenton laughed at this, the act of reading being so abhorrent to Colonel Kenton's active temperament that he was notorious for his avoidance of all literature except newspapers.
"Momma," she said, "I have got to leave these roses in here, whether Ellen likes it or not. Boyne won't have them in his room, because he says the man that's with him would have a right to object; and this is half my room, anyway." Mrs. Kenton frowned and shook her head, but Ellen answered from under the sheet, "I don't mind the roses, Lottie. I wish you'd stay with me a little while."
Lady Kenton had given full license to the propriety of calling him Frank with intimate friends, but Mary always had a shyness about it. 'Indeed, I should make no question about asking them, if I had not doubted whether, after what passed 'That is all forgotten, said Mary gently. 'I have had quite a nice letter since, and
Holworth uttered a few words of prayer and blessing; then let John help him down the steep scramble and descent, and looked up to see whether any sign of the cave could be detected from the edge of the brook. Kenton shook his head reassuringly. "Ah!" said Mr.
All signs of splendor were hidden completely. Jackson once more wore with ease his dingy old gray clothes, but the skin of his brow was drawn into a tiny knot in the center, as if he were concentrating thought with his utmost power. "Sit down, Mr. Kenton," he said kindly. "I've already been speaking to Captain Sherburne and I'll tell you now what I want.
Oncle Jazon winked conceitedly and sighted along his rudimentary ramrod to see if it was straight; then puckering his lips, as if on the point of whistling, made an affirmative noise quite impossible to spell. "Well, I'm glad you are acquainted with Kenton," said Beverley. "Where did you and he come together?"
"One doesn't often get such sunshine as this at sea, you know." "My sister, Miss Kenton, Mr. Pogis," Boyne solemnly intervened. "And Miss Lottie Kenton." The pretty boy bowed to each in turn, but he made no pretence of being there to talk with Ellen. "Have you been ill, too?" he actively addressed himself to Lottie. "No, just mad," she said.
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