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Updated: June 13, 2025
Tell me the name of ANY point or place I told you. I studied a while and decided that I couldn't. 'Look here! What do you start out from, above Twelve-Mile Point, to cross over? 'I I don't know. 'You you don't know? mimicking my drawling manner of speech. 'What DO you know? 'I I nothing, for certain. 'By the great Caesar's ghost, I believe you!
"Nor I, Bob." Their lithe bodies leaned from the saddles. They held each other close while their lips met. They were on their way to Pete Tolliver's to tell him the great news. Soon now the old cabin and its outbuildings would break into view. They had only to climb Twelve-Mile Hill. Out of a draw to the right a horse moved. Through the brush something dragged behind it.
It was a twelve-mile pull up-grade, every inch of the way twisting, turning, and tunnelling, as has been said and the caboose reeled and swayed from side to side as it rounded the reverse curves and swung at the tail of the train. Cullin, lantern in hand, had climbed to his seat in the lookout. "I've got to be up here," he explained, "till we are through the tunnels. Do what you can.
It was a twelve-mile walk through the trenches and back to the hut, and when they returned they found the men were already gathering for the evening meeting. That night, at the close of a heart-searching talk, eighty-five men arose to their feet in token that they would turn from the ways of sin and accept Christ as their Saviour, and many more raised their hands for prayers.
We went the length of a twelve-mile ridge between Ickleworth and Hillford, over high commons, with immense views on both sides, and through beech-woods, oakwoods, and furzy dells and downs spotted with juniper and yewtrees old picnic haunts of mine, but Mr. Pollingray's fresh delight in the landscape made them seem new and strange. Home through the valley.
Black Rim country was at best but scantily supplied with schools, and on the Devil's Tooth range seven young Americans three of them adopted from Sweden were in danger of growing up in deplorable ignorance of what learning lies hidden in books. A twelve-mile stretch of country had neither schoolhouse, teacher nor school officers empowered to establish a school.
Jackson himself was too poor, however, to do this, and accordingly took up a claim six miles distant on another little stream known as Twelve-mile Creek. Here, in the fall of 1765, he built a small cabin, and during the winter he cleared five or six acres of ground. The next year he was able to raise enough corn, vegetables, and pork to keep his little household from want.
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