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The man with the roup upon the doorstep: "Alce, wo!"

His wife stepped forward to ht to see, William

It's to hear There was a noise Molly and I heard it, and then we lost

it There it is again!"

Fronting the cabin, beyond the rass and

the placid stream, rose two hills, steep and thickly wooded, and between

thee, to the

listening pioneer, now caainst the rocks!" he announced "The hoofs of

horses"-"Iron!" cried his wife "The horses in Virginia go unshod! And what should

a troop of horse do here, beyond the frontier, where even the rangers

never come?"

The man shook his head, a frown of perplexity upon his bronzed and bearded

face "It is the sound of the hoofs of horses," he said, "and they are

coh the pass Hark!"

A truhter The child pressed

close to her brother's side "Oh, Robin, loo