. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. n J ^ I distinctly remember that part of it because Jemimaused to laugh over the idea of calling ourselves aninfant settlement. She said that if the people ofVirginia could see some of our dandy rufflers standingon a stump crowing like a cock because of having beatenanother at wrestling or leaping, they would think wewere indeed healthy infants. Father believes that some of the language in the peti-tion was too strong, because Colonel Boone and were among those artfully picke
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. n J ^ I distinctly remember that part of it because Jemimaused to laugh over the idea of calling ourselves aninfant settlement. She said that if the people ofVirginia could see some of our dandy rufflers standingon a stump crowing like a cock because of having beatenanother at wrestling or leaping, they would think wewere indeed healthy infants. Father believes that some of the language in the peti-tion was too strong, because Colonel Boone and were among those artfully picked ; butneither of the men seemed to think there was any-thing disrespectful in such words, and actually signedthe petition. During stormy winter days father and Billy with axesdug out troughs from buckeye logs, which we mightuse for collecting sap as soon as the time came for sugar I02 HANNAH OF KENTUCKY making. How we children watched for a change inthe weather which should tell that the day was near athand when we might revel in sweets ! Elizabeth Cal-laway gave me a spoonful of sugar shortly after her. family came into the fort, and from that time I had nottasted anything in the way of sweetness. Now, how-ever, we promised ourselves that plenty of sugar shouldbe made as soon as the sap began to run, and Billyannounced that he expected to get plenty of wild honey MAKING SUGAR 103 during the summerj no matter how many Indians mightbe skulking around. MAKING SUGAR All the children in the fort were ready on that daywhen our fathers told us the work might begin, and al-though we had neither heard nor seen anything of theIndians for many a day, four of the hunters went outto stand guard while the boys made deep wounds inthe trees with axes. Then, while the men put up a half-faced camp, wegirls carried the troughs to the trees that had beentapped and watched with eager eyes as the sap oozedout drop by drop, but yet so rapidly as to give promiseof a good yield. Perhaps there are som
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