Six Months in Kansas

ISBN: 0559893876

Author: Lady, A

Condition: New

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... from some direction. Standing at my door, C 's little black pony, saddled, ready for any moment, has kept me company all the week. He puts his nose against me in the most kindly manner every time I have occasion to go out; and we talk long talks together, he always seeming to end the matter by saying, u Keep heart, I can take you anywhere you wish to go. To-night everybody is at the hall. My orders are, if fire-arms sound like battle, to place Alice and myself as near the floor as possible, and be well covered with blankets. We already have one bullet in the wall, and, since that, one struck the " shakes" close by the bed's head and glanced off. Now, for the first time, I begin to take an interest in Law rence, as a city; and, prospectively, her destiny is almost as my own. How well her men bear themselves, in the settlement of every question which is pressed upon them, now so important as a matter of national history. I can but hear and know of their plans, because Lieut. C and Grove L are a part of our family, and are among the most active workers. They come in to talk, consult with others, and write, if need be. Sometimes things assume a most amusing aspect; as when, after a serious charge to be sure and wake them up if the drum beats, I, hardly daring to close my eyes, at last, halfasleep, hearing the most fiendish outcry ever borne upon the moon-lit night air, call aloud, " Wake up, quickly! there is trouble of some kind, for nothing but a Missourian could utter such sounds this side of the infernal regions!" and the cabin is astir in an instant, --only to laugh at me, because the unearthly sounds are only those of a party of wolves taking a survey of the city at midnight. Dec. 5th.--Mother of mine, I can hardly settle down to the...