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The early Quakers filled their records in the eighteenth century with denunciations of "frollicks." Consciously they denounced amusement, acting no doubt in a wise understanding of the rude, boisterous character of the pioneer's social gatherings. Only unconsciously did the Quakers cultivate the spirit of recreation in their social gatherings.
You don't know what the Pioneer's Picnic is? Ignorant boy! It's our most important event of the year. Well, until that time I am going to try an experiment. I am going to see if well, I'll tell you; I am going to try an experiment on a man, and the man is you, and I'll explain the whole thing to you after the Pioneer's Picnic, and not a moment before. Aren't you curious?"
The old pioneer's own language would have been far better than that which Filson used; for the latter's composition is a travesty of Johnsonese in its most aggravated form. For Filson see Durrett's admirable "Life" in the Filson Club Publications.
The wild fruits strawberries, service berries, cherries, plums, crab apples were, however, too necessary a part of the pioneer's meager diet to be left unplucked out of fear of an Indian attack. Another day would see the same group out again.
Come here, Gagabu, and examine Paaker's wound, which is no disgrace to him for it was inflicted by a prince." The old man loosened the bandage from the pioneer's swollen hand. "That was a bad blow," he exclaimed; "three fingers are broken, and do you see? the emerald too in your signet ring."
There were two or three wooden "stores," from which the windows and doors had been taken and conveyed to the newer settlement of Wynyard's Gulch. Four or five buildings that still were inhabited the blacksmith's shop, the post-office, a pioneer's cabin, and the old hotel and stage-office only accented the general desolation.
There is reason however to believe that he hunted upon Watauga some time earlier than this. Daniel Boone, his Parentage, and early Adventures. Trials of the Colonists. George Boone and his home. Squire Boone. Birth and character of Daniel Boone. His limited education. A pioneer's camp. A log house and furnishings. Annoyance of Boone on the arrival of Scotch emigrants. His longings for adventure.
Garrison are still living," wrote Theodore Tilton, at the time, to the Independent, "and Judge Bond jocosely threatened to summon them all into Court, that Mr. Garrison might forgive them in public." At Washington the pioneer's reception seemed to him like a dream. And no wonder. He was heartily received by President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton.
She had about decided to starve herself to death, but changed her mind when the griddle-cakes and syrup appeared. In fact, she changed her mind about many things during those first days. After a few acute attacks of homesickness, she began despite herself to take a pioneer's delight in blazing a new trail.
Scores of valleys up which population has been steadily creeping would be instantly abandoned; streams that now, from source to mouth, resound the stroke of the pioneer's axe, would be left desolate on the first rumor of war; a hundred outlying settlements would disappear in a night, as the tidings of outbreak and massacre were borne along by hurrying fugitives.
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