Chattanooga Author:John Jolliffe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. It is an old time's story which we are about to tell. The actors in it, with but few exceptions, are dead. Some, indeed, remain among the settlers... more » on the mountain sides, and in the deep forests, and among the Indians, now west of the Mississippi. These Indiana still keep the tale, as a tradition, among them, and, perhaps, will hand it down from generation to generation, as long as their tribes remain. It is these old traditions, and half-forgotten narratives, that we wish now to reunite, as a Mason does his materials, until the tale shall be told. We would be glad if an abler pen than ours would give form and shape, and if it can be done with materials so rude, beauty to the structure; but, in our country, so fruitful in tales of romantic interest, such pens already find full employment in arranging materials already before them. Unless, therefore, we shall preserve the story, the whole of these fragments may be lost and forgotten forever. " Stop a bit thar, squire," said Tom Giles; " I don't like that, because I 'm sure you can do the thing up as good as any body; and, squire, that thar beginnin' is a leattle too much like a sarmon for me. You know the bargain is, that I am to pint out all mistakes, so that you will have it exactly right." "Yes, sir." " Well, go on squire. I jest stopped you a leattle. A dollar a day and board is good wages, and I want to yearn my money." , Richard Rashleigh was a gentleman of good family, and ample fortune in the west of England. ' He had read Rosseau'8 Social Contract, and Sydney on Government, and other books of that kind, until republicanism became, with him, first a principle, and then a passion. He loved to talk of the beauties of a republican form of government, of the natural equality of man...« less