The Border raider.

Zane Grey's The Spirit of the border.

Very many who did not return nevertheless found they were not fitted to grapple with the stern trials of existence on the border.

Withers, in his "Chronicles of Border Warfare," in speaking of this very action, makes Girty withdraw his three hundred warriors on account of the valor of Clark's men, remarking that it was "useless to fight with fools or madmen."

[Footnote: See De Haas, 263-281, for the fullest, and probably most accurate, account of the siege; as already explained he is the most trustworthy of the border historians.

At last he reach a fenced orchard, on the border of the cleared ground round the fort.

Boon, Kenton, and Harrod illustrate by their lives the nobler, kindlier traits of the dauntless border-folk; Wetzel, like McGarry, shows the dark side of the picture.

So, with foray and reprisal, and fierce private war, with all the border in a flame, the year 1781 came to an end.

Soon the frontiersmen began to clamor for the destruction of the Moravian towns; yet for a little while they were restrained by the Continental officers of the few border forts, who always treated these harmless Indians with the utmost kindness.

When the full particulars of the affair were known, all the best leaders of the border, almost all the most famous Indian fighters, joined in denouncing it.

One of these conflicts attracted wide attention on the border because of the obstinacy with which it was waged and the bloodshed that accompanied it.

The men thus gathered were the very pick of the Kentucky pioneers; sinewy veterans of border strife, skilled hunters and woodsmen, long wonted to every kind of hardship and danger.

Often the border people themselves interfered to prevent such outrages, or expressed disapproval of them, and rescued the victims; but they never visited the criminals with the stern and ruthless punishment which alone would have availed to check the crimes.

The victorious campaigns of Wayne in the north, and the innumerable obscure forays and reprisals of the Tennesseeans and Georgians in the south, so cowed the Indians, that they all, north and south alike, made peace; the first peace the border had known for fifty years.

Moreover, in many of the communities there were people whose kinsmen or friends had gone to the border; and the welfare of these adventurers was a matter of more or less interest to those who had stayed behind.

There was fierce border warfare in the south.

Before the army was ready the Federal Government was obliged to take other measures for the defence of the border.

This expedition, in which not a single hostile Indian was encountered, has been transmuted by Withers and one or two other border historians into a purely fictitious expedition of revenge in which hundreds of Indians were slain on the field of St. Clair's disaster.

In all the border communities there was a lack of circulating medium, and an earnest desire to obtain more by any expedient.

Among these wilderness warriors who served under Wayne were some who became known far and wide along the border for their feats of reckless personal prowess and their strange adventures.

After breakfast he would go outyou might see him on the pier, or on the old town walls, or taking a walk across the Border Bridge; now

I had taken care to extinguish my lamp as soon as I got clear of the Border Bridge, and now, riding along in the darkness, I was secure from the observation of any possible enemy.

A border warfare of the most savage character, extending over a long line, would be unceasingly waged.

Some depredations were committed during the past year upon our trains transporting supplies for the Army, on the road between the western border of Missouri and Santa Fe.

A bill drawn at Philadelphia on Camden, N.J., at New York on a border town in New Jersey, at Cincinnati on Newport, in Kentucky, not to multiply other examples, might, for anything in this bill to restrain it, become a mere matter of local accommodation.

I always tell him, not 'til chickens come doublebreasted like overcoats can he get it in this house, with Vetsburg such a star boarder.

" "I don't say nothing how her mother treats Vetsburg, her oldest boarder, and for what he pays for that second floor front and no lunches she can afford to cater a little; but that such a girl shouldn't be made to take up a little stenography or help with the housework!

No wonder every boarder what you got stays year in and year out till even the biggest kickers pay more board sooner as go.

Through descriptions of life in the city the dapper summer boarder entranced the simple country girl.

Snatching a pistol from the belt of a boarder standing by, the captain leveled it at the heads of the sailors, and commanded them instantly to their quarters, under penalty of being shot on the spot.

I at once set about looking for a New England farmhouse in which I might be received as a "summer boarder."

We have never had a boarder before, and Miss Anthea,bless her dear soul!

CHAPTER XXVII Mrs. Sykes thought much about her boarder in those days and, for a wonder, said very little.

" "Mrs. Sykes," the doctor's voice was dangerously quiet, "am I to understand that you are tired of your boarder?" Mrs. Sykes jumped.

I think our small boarder here is like to prove a refractory subject, if I undertake to use the sceptre my friend meant to bequeathe me, too magisterially.

A woman was standing in the doorway, and he called to her saying that he had brought her a new boarder.

"Ewans," said Jean, as he pushed a pebble along one of the lines drawn in charcoal on the stone coping, "Ewans, you must find it tiresome to be a boarder?" "Mother cannot have me with her at home," replied the boy.

He was a boarder in my house.

" "But, my dear Sir, you are doing the greatest possible damage to your reputation; he is a boarder of mine, and" "You had better be rid of him," chimed in Mr. Sidney.

At another time, when Steerforth (who was the only parlour-boarder and the lion of the school) laughed in church, the Beadle, who thought the offender was Traddles, took him out.

John and Fred always went home on a Saturday, as Mr. Barton's house was not far from L. Joe was a boarder entirely, his home was at a distance, and to this Fred Parker ascribed the superiority of his garden.

She can't be round a minute but some boarder's right on hand

What was I saying,I, who would not for the world have pained our unfortunate little boarder by an allusion? I will go,he said,and made a movement with his left arm to let himself down from his high chair.

There is not a boarder at our table, I firmly believe, excepting the young girl, who has not a story of the heart to tell, if one could only get the secret drawer open.

The poor boarder in bombazine is my dynamometer.

So they will, very probably; but my curiosity is excited about this little boarder of ours, and my reader must not be disappointed, if I sometimes interrupt a discussion to give an account of whatever fact or traits I may discover about him.

So we are to have a new boarder to-morrow.

The perennial boarder.

The Blythe girls: Helen's strange boarder; or, The girl from Bronx Park.

More does he wonder still at the city clerk in a blazer, who has two weeks' holiday in the year and, apparently, unlimited money, which he earns in the easiest possible way by 'sitting at a desk and writing,' The farmer's wife sees the fashions of the summer boarder, and between them man and woman get a notion of the beauties of city life for which their children may live to blame them.