. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. is a good housewife, and bringsto her husband, a horse, two cows and a calf, four realwool blankets, and linen of her own weaving enoughto fill a small chest. Colonel Callaway is well-to-do,otherwise his daughter never could have got togetherso much of a dowry. It is not to be supposed that the merrymaking wasreally at an end with the dancing. Our people weredetermined the newly married couple should be fittedout in proper fashion, and so the fiddlers remained tohelp in the celebration
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. is a good housewife, and bringsto her husband, a horse, two cows and a calf, four realwool blankets, and linen of her own weaving enoughto fill a small chest. Colonel Callaway is well-to-do,otherwise his daughter never could have got togetherso much of a dowry. It is not to be supposed that the merrymaking wasreally at an end with the dancing. Our people weredetermined the newly married couple should be fittedout in proper fashion, and so the fiddlers remained tohelp in the celebration after a home for Ehzabeth andSamuel had been built. Before I was awake next morning, the older men,and as many of the younger ones as were not too weary THE BRIDES HOME 129 from having danced all night, set about building acabin for the bride and groom, and, as might havebeen expected, Billy was in the thick of it, for he countedhimself a full-grown man after having beaten his eldersat shooting. I dont suppose there is any need to tell how a houseis built out here in our country, and yet because Eliza-. beth was the first white bride this side of the Gap, itreally seems as if I should set down everything in whichshe had any concern. Samuel had already staked out the land, and it wasnot above a quarter of a mile from where our home was 130 HANNAH OF KENTUCKY to be. On it was plenty of timber, and as soon asbreakfast had been eaten the men of the fort set towork rolHng up a cabin. Some began chopping treesand trimming them into proper lengths to make thesides and ends of the house. The boys dragged outthe logs to where the cabin was to be set up, and yetother men cut and spht trees into clapboards to coverthe roof. Some worked at splitting logs into puncheonsfor the door and floor, and all labored with such a willthat, aided at noon by those who had danced hardestduring the night, everything was ready before sunsetfor rolling up the house, for even the foundation tim-bers had be
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