. Historic towns of the Southern States. ngto tradition, killed herself in a fit of despon-dency at the unhappy termination of a love-affair. A circumstance said to have takenplace in 1890 seemed to substantiate the tra-dition. An elderly, refined-looking and quietstranger appeared repeatedly at the Keatshouse and requested to be left alone in thelibrary, where the girl was shot. At first heoffered no explanation of his unusual request,but when finally leaving he said to the ladywho had admitted him, I parted from her inthere, and have returned from California tovisit the scene once more. The


. Historic towns of the Southern States. ngto tradition, killed herself in a fit of despon-dency at the unhappy termination of a love-affair. A circumstance said to have takenplace in 1890 seemed to substantiate the tra-dition. An elderly, refined-looking and quietstranger appeared repeatedly at the Keatshouse and requested to be left alone in thelibrary, where the girl was shot. At first heoffered no explanation of his unusual request,but when finally leaving he said to the ladywho had admitted him, I parted from her inthere, and have returned from California tovisit the scene once more. The rumor wassoon circulated that the mysterious strangerwas the lover whose unfaithfulness had robbedthe unhappy girl of the desire to live. The descendants of George Keats still liv-ing in Louisville deny the pathetic storythroughout. They affirm that the girl washeartwhole and free from any morbid tenden-cies. Their version of the tragedy is substan-tially as follows : Isabellas brother Clarencehad been out hunting in the vicinity of the. 53° Louisville city, and, returning home, carelessly left hisgun on a sofa in the darkened library. Isa-bella shortly afterward went into the room tolie down, and, not seeing the loaded weapon,struck the trigger in such a way with her footthat the contents was discharged, mortallywounding her. Edward Earalestons inimitable HoosierTales portray the next period in the historyof the Ohio Valley (1840-60), immortalizingthose pedagogues of the Ichabod Crane typewho came swarming from New England whenthe tide of emigration first set westward. spent his childhood on the river be-tween Cincinnati and Louisville, and his pic-tures of primitive social life in Kentucky andsouthern Indiana are in the style of Irvingssketch already mentioned. Zachary Taylorwent to school, not far from the Falls fort,to one of these Yankee teachers, a native ofConnecticut by the name of Ayers, who wasa sagacious fellow, able to watch the Indiansand urchins simu


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