. Kentucky log . good condition. Until they showedsome ill effects there was nothing to do, butit remained an anxiety. A mile to the south on the east bankPrestonburg lay warm and still in the after-noon sun. It was a neat and pretty place ofseveral hundred people, with lots of flowersand trim little door-yards, much better keptthan Louisa, but we had no business there andwerd*tempted to stop. In fact, the Captaindid stop for a moment; while lopeing Prankstumbled and fell to his knees with a no damage was dons. Hardly a soul wasvisible as we pushed along three or fourblocks of the sa
. Kentucky log . good condition. Until they showedsome ill effects there was nothing to do, butit remained an anxiety. A mile to the south on the east bankPrestonburg lay warm and still in the after-noon sun. It was a neat and pretty place ofseveral hundred people, with lots of flowersand trim little door-yards, much better keptthan Louisa, but we had no business there andwerd*tempted to stop. In fact, the Captaindid stop for a moment; while lopeing Prankstumbled and fell to his knees with a no damage was dons. Hardly a soul wasvisible as we pushed along three or fourblocks of the sandy street nearest the river,and forded again beyond the south end of thetown to take another short-cut on the westbank. The road led back into the country upa little streamlet, across a hill to a branchof Bull Creek, down this to the main streamand up a branch on the other side, and overanother divide to the head of a runlet whichled directly to Halls Pord on the river. The few households along the way were much. AN EARLY SETTLER ,NEAH HULLS FORD- CHAPTER III 52 interested in a pipe-line which was being putthrough from some newly discovered petroleumwells on Beaver Creek to 7/hitehouse. It waslaid on the surface, in a beeline, stoppingfor nothing, whether woods, hills or cliffs,making a clean sweep through everything. Thepeople were much excited over a work of suchmagnitude, the wealth of the promoters, andthe new fortunes they would coin in thescheme. They all agreed it was a great thingfor the country, though it was hard to seehow it benefited anyone unless there was achance of finding oil on his land. There was confusion here in asking theway, as some insisted that Laven lived atAlphoretta, not Halls Ford. It finallyappeared that the neighborhood was knownindifferently as Lavens, Halls Ford (realname), Alphoretta (map name), and Dwale,(postoffice). We arrived at all four at five-thirty. There was no trouble in finding kept a prosperous-looking store by theFord, an
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