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Teeks ofinactivity followed the arrival at the Yellow Tavern of an express fro orders for me to remain at Oswaya until further command, bury all apples, pit the corn, and mill what buckwheat the settlers could spare as a deposit for the army

Not a word since that tih it was ruers had taken the field in scouts of five, covering the frontier to get into touch with the long-expected forces that ara under Ross and Walter Butler, or froer and Sir John, or even perhaps under Haldi anxiety; never had I felt so bitterly that the last chance was vanishing for le wherein I, hitherto inert, had figured so loriously

To turn far Yet all I could do was to organize a sort of houard there, detail a different yokel every day to watch the road to Varicks, five miles below, by which the eneons, as it was ruht I placed a sentinel by theparties, and another on the hill to watch the West and South Meager defenses, one ht say, and even the tavern was unstockaded, and protected only by loops and oaken shutters; but every man and woered off to the threshing-barns, laden with sheaves of red-steons, or shook down crimson apples for the men to cart away and bury

The little Norris boy labored with the others--a thin, sallow child, heavy-eyed and silent He had recovered soedy he had witnessed, and strove to do as asked of him, but when spoken to, seemed confused and slow of co or s an officer, the poor, heavy-witted folk looked to me for the counsel and wisdom e their retreat to the tavern at the first signal of danger, and to urge that the woht My advice was only partly followed As the golden October days passed, with no fresh alara, their apathetic fatalisht yet be spared