The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . grass has become high and waving ; and the dandelionsand buttercups bespangle !he meadow, like gold dust strewed over the plain. Gorgeous andj lovely are the halls of Flora, and large and gay blooms the red rose under the open lattice ofthe cottager. The clambering vines are strung with many-hued flowers, and the violet peepsforth from under the wall. All Nature is radiant with Summer glories, and the bright sunlooks dowii upon a regenerated world. T
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . grass has become high and waving ; and the dandelionsand buttercups bespangle !he meadow, like gold dust strewed over the plain. Gorgeous andj lovely are the halls of Flora, and large and gay blooms the red rose under the open lattice ofthe cottager. The clambering vines are strung with many-hued flowers, and the violet peepsforth from under the wall. All Nature is radiant with Summer glories, and the bright sunlooks dowii upon a regenerated world. The sunny days have come- Short nights leave noroom for dismal dreams. The sun breaks forth early, and darts his beams through the lattice,upon the eyelids of the sleeper. The air is filled with odors, and the wood is rife with melo-dy. Grace and Harmony are joined in wedlock, and Melancholy, flapping his dark wings,hies to the caverns of oblivion. Of all the months in the year, this is the most extolled bythe poets 5 and doubtless the gay and the youthful find it more congenial to their taste, thanthe sombre Autumn, or the frowning i«ia:,^» £3^r;it^-^ ^^^ Stratagem and Cruelty of a Party of Indians. 17 On the night of the 11th of April, 1787, the house of a widow, In Bourbon county, (Ky.)became the scene of an adventure, which we think deserves to be related. She occupiedwhat is generally called a double cabin, in a lonely part of the county, one room of whichI was tenanted bv the old lady herself, together wi;h two grown sons, and a widowed daughter,! at that time suckling an infant, while the other was occupied by two unmarried daughters,jfrom sixteen to iwentvyears of age, together with a little girl not more than half The hour was 11 oclock at night. One of the unmarried daughters was still busily engagedj at the loom, but the other members of the family, with the exception of one of the sons, had! retired to rest. Some symptoms of an alarming natu
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