. Sketches and anecdotes of the old settlers, and new comers, the Mormon bandits and Danite band by Col. Reid. KEOKUK AS A YOUNG CHIEFIn the great Council at Washington when Mr. Poinsett was Secretary of War. THE OLD SETTLERS,. C H APTE R I. The big black bull ran down the meadow. And he shook his tail and jarred the river, And he pawed the dirt in the heifers frtc^s * * * * * * Lons time ago.—Hoose anna: Hoose anna ha. The Star of Empire, its birth place in Buncombe County, North Carolina.—Im-migration to Posey County, Indiana—Ho-^ the Hoosier State got itsname.—Old Settlers of the Upper
. Sketches and anecdotes of the old settlers, and new comers, the Mormon bandits and Danite band by Col. Reid. KEOKUK AS A YOUNG CHIEFIn the great Council at Washington when Mr. Poinsett was Secretary of War. THE OLD SETTLERS,. C H APTE R I. The big black bull ran down the meadow. And he shook his tail and jarred the river, And he pawed the dirt in the heifers frtc^s * * * * * * Lons time ago.—Hoose anna: Hoose anna ha. The Star of Empire, its birth place in Buncombe County, North Carolina.—Im-migration to Posey County, Indiana—Ho-^ the Hoosier State got itsname.—Old Settlers of the Upper Mississippi Valley, infant in his swaddling clothes has no dreams of greatness. Heblubbers and cries, eats, drinks and grows to he a big lubberly boy, and toddlesabout holding on to chairs, and smashes his playthmgs; falls down and in hi^fall knocks the claret from his nose, and cries again at the sight of blood, andawakes the sympathy of his kind-hearted mother. This agony is soon oyer,and still he grows, gets more noisy, while his mother indulges him in hismischievous pninks. In time he is a school boy and plays hookey and make. ?S THE OLD SETTLERS. himself the best hoy at school and <?ets to the head
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