At Sevier's log-house there was feasting and merry-making, for he had given a barbecue, and a great horse race was to be run, while the backwoods champions tried their skill as marksmen and wrestlers.

Father desired to express his friendship for these Indians, and accordingly arranged a grand barbecue for them.

The officers sometimes gave dances in the forts, the ladies and their escorts coming in to spend the night; and they attended the great barbecues to which the people rode from far and near, many of the men carrying their wives or sweethearts behind them on the saddle.

Then she acknowledged that she had planned the barbecue secretly, fearing that madame would not allow her to invite the little goatherd.

The boys said it would be the biggest picnic that ever wasa regular barbecue.