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Their gaunt, gray bodies were gone in a moment, like ghosts that vanish at the coming of the day. "Rouse up, Paul!" cried Henry. "They are gone, afraid of the sun, and it's safe for us now on the ground." "And mighty glad I am!" said Paul. "The great Inn of Kaintuckee was not so hospitable after all, or at least some of our fellow guests were too hungry."
Most of 'em was scared plum' crazy, and they was fer gittin 'out 'n Kaintuckee at any cost. Some was fer fightin' their way through us." "The skulks!" exclaimed Polly Ann. "They tried to kill ye? What did ye do?" Tom grinned, his mouth full of bacon. "Do?" says he; "we shot a couple of 'em in the legs and arms, and bound 'em up again. They was in a t'arin' rage.
You will forgive a backwoods boy, self-centred, for lack of wider interest, and with a little imagination. Bear hunting with my father, and an occasional trip on the white mare twelve miles to the Cross-Roads for salt and other necessaries, were the only diversions to break the routine of my days. But at the Cross-Roads, too, they were talking of Kaintuckee.
A rude table was set there under a great tree, and around it three gentlemen were talking. My memory of all of them is more vivid than it might be were their names not household words in the Western country. Captain Sevier startled them. "My friends," said he, "if you have despatches for Kaintuckee, I pray you get them ready over night." They looked up at him, one sternly, the other two gravely.
"The Wyandot warriors helped in his capture their bruises prove it. Colonel Bird even now marches south against Kaintuckee, and he has no need of prisoners. The words of Wyatt are nothing. Girty has become one of our chiefs, but it is not for him to judge in this case.
"To Kaintuckee!" cried Captain Sevier, turning to Tom. "Egad, then, you've no right to a wife, and to such a wife," and he glanced again at Polly Ann. "Why, McChesney, you never struck me as a rash man. Have you lost your senses, to take a woman into Kentucky this year?" "So the forts be still in trouble?" said Tom. "Trouble?" cried Mr.
But that night, as we sat before the fading red of the backlog, the old man dozing in his chair, Polly Ann put her hand on mine. "Davy," she said softly, "do you reckon he's gone to Kaintuckee?" How could I tell? The days passed. The wind grew colder, and one subdued dawn we awoke to find that the pines had fantastic white arms, and the stream ran black between white banks.
Ware, is the Kaintuckee Inn, a most spacious place, noted for its pure air, and the great abundance of it. In truth, Mr. Ware, I may assert to you that the ventilation is perfect." "So I see, Mr. Cotter," said Henry, pursuing the same humor. "It is indeed a noble place. We are not troubled by any guest, beneath us in quality, nor are we crowded by any of our fellow lodgers." "True!
"You'll not go to Kaintuckee, ma'am; you'll stay here with us until the redskins are beaten off there. He may go if he likes." "I reckon we didn't come this far to give out, Captain Sevier," said she. "You don't look to be the kind to give out, Mrs. McChesney," said he. "And yet it may not be a matter of giving out," he added more soberly.
"Chauncey Dike said he went off with another girl into Kaintuckee." "And what did Polly Ann say to that?" the stranger demanded. "She asked Chauncey if Tom McChesney gave him the scalps he had on his belt." At that he laughed in good earnest, and slapped his breech-clouts repeatedly. All at once he stopped, and stared up the ridge. "Is that Polly Ann?" said he.
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