Show lf IE Ii NS F 1 c r 1 p I Havlan Halm Hatch Hatcher J uJ u NOIr q lY r il I lt N A f NS t 4 11 W P fP J io- io I z f 7 pv S I fC-F fC ArZ f Z 3 r Lt II w j t Iii LI LIf m f In 11 10 C tyr r e 14 t erN C I WN CE SYNOPSIS In Saul Pattern ot of came Into the virgin oun coun- country try ot of the DIg Big Sandy vall valley y In Kentucky Chief ot of the perils were vere the Shawnees who sought to toV V hold their lands from the ever encroach ing whites From a huge pinnacle Saul gazed upon the tat fat bottoms and the endless acres ot of forest In Its primeval primeval quietude at the mouth ot of the wolfpen and felt an eagerness to possess It de declaring It a place nt fit for a 1 man to LIVE In Five years later ho he returned with Barton Darton his year old son on and built I a Irude rude cabin In Sauls Saul's the In- In Indians Indians attacked Barton Darton and wounded him so 80 badly Saul was forced to re- re return return turn with him to Virginia In 1796 when It was reasonably lIate eafe Saul returned with his family and a pat pat- patent pat ent for tor 1000 acres this time to stay Ito added to the cabin planted crops and fattened his stock on the rich meadows Soon other settlers arrived A century later In the tho spring ot of 1885 we find and Cynthia Pat tern ot of the tho generation toll follow follow- following ow- ow owIn In ing Saul perched on the from which her great grand tather had first viewed Dot Dot- Bottoms tom toms The valleys alleys heretofore un- un untouched untouched touched by the waves aes ot of change chance sweeping the Republic are at last beginning to feel teel that restless surge Her dad Sparrel and her brothers Jesse Jasper and have been busy converting the old water water- wheeled mill to steam power Spar Spar- reVs triumph Is complete when the golden stream ot of meal pours at the turning on ot of the steam Cynthia reels feels that something out or of orthe the past has been burled buried with Saul Cynthia Is a pretty and Imaginative miss In her late teens who often otten re created Saul and her other torp bears Rn and fancied tl them them still living JIvIng Sparrel proudly brings home the first meal out ot of the steam mill and Julia his wife Is 13 pleased lion has added com comforts torts and con con- conveniences J to Saus Saurs homestead and Sparel has not shirked The Cam fam- family lIy ily goes easily Into the work ot of the new season due to the tho simplicity ot of life lite along ago on the wolf s penY pen men are busy In in the tT td Julia In her garden arden nd Cynthia In inthe tW the house h Joy Is abundant CHAPTER III-Continued III ill Continued 4 Ng NO I vanh p be n a lawyer awyer thin and have hI nn an and plead cases over at 1 J reed some about them hi i the he Ga Gazette and I know Tandy Morgan over o nt at town and Ive Ie listened some Fome to the trIals over or there on court dayS I thInk I could do It ri IJ i 1 y Docs It take rea real too money money to re read law Jesse Some I been thInkIng about that too Im I'm goIng to dig ginseng roots thIs fall all and I ought to o get n a aprice prIce for or plY pey steer when the drovers drovers ers olOe ugh and I thInk I Iou ou ought ht to get to try It n a winter Id like to to hate hai n a winter nt at books i In the Institute but I dont don't guess Id I'd ever get tol to you do with It you yon had It V Oh Ob Id I'd just like to know thIngs and not be so boot book Ignorant You know n a you know v enough about just books for fora or a 8 girl She knew how he meant that we well l to to her het and ond she kept it silently for fora fora a time Then she saId I wouldn't want to see you go away Jesse It wouldn't be the Ith you gone but It would be nIce for you to read the law v It If you have hae that want May May- Maybe be I could go for n a while Lets Let's ask Not just yet Its It's too soon Aft Aft- After After er the crops get laid by maybe There was a pause In words each one thinking forward orward In hIs own J way Then the notes or of the supper bell came flyIng up the hollow In search of them and they walked slowly home borne through the dusk CHAPTER W IV WW CynthIa was watching W VY the lire quiet movements of Spar Spar- reI plowIng on WOlfpen gel ger was debarkIng from rom the noisy wharf boat at Catlettsburg at the mouth of the lg Big Sandy where thE rIver packet Ventura had just land land- landed J ed from rom Pittsburgh lie Je got through the plies piles ot of sacks and barrels and rolls robs of wIre on the wharf and bank and walked up the hill hili to the water water- waterfront front There he paused for a min min- minute ute ate to look down nt at the two rivers coming together to form orm the trl state view or of Kentucky Wes West VII and ond Ohio The little town at the junction o of the rivets rivers and three states was bus bus- bustling bustling with activity It was the gate gate- gateway way woy to the BIg Sandy Volley Valley All produce for or the new and ond growIng towns up the riser came down the OhIo from Pittsburgh or up the river from Cincinnati and poured Itself out on the wharf at Colletts- Colletts Catlettsburg burg stood watch watch- watchIng Ing the negroes hustle great loads londs of flour and coffee and salt from the bow of the Ventura A few rafts of los logs were nere tied lied to the willows above the town Some men were vere fishing from lIell fleets or of coal barges harges were slowly Into vIew from behind the sharp wedge ot of West Vest Virginia down the Ohio Looks good enough ger thought turning away awny from rom It and goIng Into Sherry Gordons Gordon's sn- sn loon The saloon was crowded with rough men from rom the boats and the mining towns A looking friendly hill man was leanIng over oer the rail at the end o of the bar ger spoke to him and got n a hos- hos hospitable answer have lIa a beer with me Shellen Shellen- berger said Sure Male Make It n a whisky They drank and commented on the spring weather Where you frum rum 1 the man asked Pittsburgh A feller could see ee you didn't come from no place about here Where you headin or Tike Pike county said You way up there Its It's n a nIon along Ion long wn ways s 's from here Hows the best way to get up upI I there They no best way mister Theys They's only one way you aim to walk You take the C 0 from here up to That's as fur as ashe she he goes jors You ketch a boat boat tip there and It takes you on up to Pike bought drinks and then went outsIde following the main street baele toward the hill hili to the railroad station The Big Sandy traIn was crowded to the baggage car with curious men from rom the new to towns tons ns and ond the mInes up the river They seemed to belong to a different rac race from rom or ger-or er or Sparrel Pattern Several of them were happily In his neat gray tailored suIt and polished shoes sat among mong them aloof hut but observing Ing After a while he sat by one who looked more Intelligent Inquiring carefully about the work these men dId their stages ages the number ot of stir sur- surplus plus men men who wandered Into the valley without a steady stady job Many of them he be learned belonged to the poor lower river towns above Catlettsburg picked up upa upa a few dollars around the mInes Thu new nev railroad followed the lg Big Sandy back Into the lulls hills Shel lenberger sat by the wIndow ob- ob observing serving with particular Interest the wIdth and current ot of the ricer be- be below he low low him appraising the rafts that were coming dawn d from rom tile the timber lands and the who were ere straining ul mIghtily at the long pars to get the logs around the sharp bends without breaking up or grounding on the sandbars T The lc train passed coal mines at whose base n a depressing debrIs or nt hovels huddled darkly together The h hill hill- hillsides n sides already deflowered ot of theIr timber exposed naked rIdges to the sun families of conventional hill hili type were out In the bottoms plowIng and dIgging The railroad ended about fifty miles up the river nt at Richardson and and the remaInIng dozen passengers now got oft ocr and had hod lunch at the only restaurant before goIng down do to the wharf A hour bal bour after the train was In th the boat whistled for or oil all those who were going on up the rIver ricer Youre going on by boat Shel- Shel lenberger enberger asked ot of n a tall hat black ted man tramping In Ion long strides toward the wharf Yes Amos Barnes said Were rIght lucky to have n a good boat stage Takes longer by hack back TheY walked on down to the log wharf When Is she due In Pikeville asked Sometime tomorrow tt if she's lucky Pretty fast going burg to Pikeville In two days That's traveling ve II ng There was n a score ot of passengers on the Fanny Freeze nil all men save one n a travel tired woman who sat with lien her baby on a chaIr on the up up- upper per deck mIndless ot of the smoke Some or of the men Idled about the narrow passageway or leaned against the railing wn watching the families digging In the fields Sew Sewera eral era gathered amon among the heap o of freight on th the lower foredeck deck Shel lenberger found Barnes sitting on onn ona n a barrel or of flour to n the sunshine Cinders aint so apt to get In a aman's mans man's eyes up front here bere Barnes said Yes Its It's much better up here er answered re regarded Barnes trying to take In nil all his dimensions lie He was n a large e man In n a dusty brown suit snit the pants n hugging his knees and ond down Into n pair of straight black hoots with wilh brown t on rs to pull them themon on hy by Ills Ilis hall hair out from under II a 11 10 binch ant mini I a II 1 lh h 1 sw 11 hi his lar ears to IU iii hll hit teat 1 filled his pipe leis leis- urel- urel Ile He could hear Iwar a young moun- moun mountaineer er describing hIs adventures s 's on hIs journey out o of the hills I just give up that bur burg was sure nil all afire mind down lie way er e everything was WilS n a- a blazin up like n brush heap In n a and I 1 yelled out to TnT Tax he was bock back nt at the tiller Paz was was I 1 sa says s 's Lets take and tie up Ul Taz this dad burned town towns town's a a up And TnT lie he made a sight ot of fun me a n lIIn rue me on ac- ac account account count Ill Id slept clean a past Cat Cat- Catlettsburg Catlettsburg and here we was already a In to Ashland where they got nil all them them furnaces and things The laughter was fra frayed ed by the wInd and carried back Into the swirling smoke I suppose you e youve you've been down to toA A Ashland or somewhere Shellen berger berer Inquired I rode the Greenup County dr- dr cult and Ill Im going up to Pikeville to ride circuIt now You are arc well acquainted d with the upper lg Big Sandy then I 1 Imagine I ought to be brother Ive I-e rId a sight ot of country In these parIs In my day Ive I've rId about er e-er every sIngle creel creek and holler spread out a map ot of the Big Sandy region Theres Catlettsburg at the mouth ot of the rIver Theres There's Louisa And theres there's where here we took the boat bont That's theres there's the mouth ot of Cannon Gannon creek the mouth ot of Cannon Gannor were we're just now passIng Barnes said poInting to his left leCt over oer o 0 salt barrel A man could float a sized good raft down that stream Is It that wide very ery far up asked Its fifty to n a hundred feet wide for n a right smart piece up Ive I've rIll rid time the full length of it t head to mouth many's n a time I understand there ore are some 1 large tracts up In there still held by the old original settlers Is that teat right That sure Is right Barnes saId You couldn't find a finer tIner lot of folks than along that creek creele Somes Some's been livIng there nigh on to a hundred years ears or so wouldn't surprise me you say were we're at now there SeE Theres There's Can Gan- Gannon non l Fork ork running off ocr there to the south Here we arc nrc rounding that bend There Is Prestonsburg burg there Is Bea Beaver et creek goIng off otT to the southwest and theres there's then the Breaks an and the VIrginia line St t you are well acquainted along that valley alley repeated About where Is the Pat Pattern tern property Wen Nell now lets let's SEe The Harts would be about there and well the Patterns would he just about there near Dear or far aI i 1 judge It is s a large tract Isn't It lIes got n a sight or of land f 1 dont don't reckon he knows how much he has got Clever Cleer man thou though h Sparrel Pattern Is is lIes lIe's got books and n a adeal deal ot of learning lIe does doctoring And his woman oman there a taken taken- tak n- n ner er woman creek than Julie Ia Pattern While CynthIa and ond Jesse planted time the last ot of the sweet potato sprouts In House FIEld the Fanny Freeze landed on the sharp bend at Pres Pre's Ires and was tied up for or the night to a big s sycamore that shone yellow v In the lie dusk Toward noon ot of the next day walked brISkly down the lie gangplank at Pattern Landing Barnes Garnes watched hIm go saw hIm greet Nelson Sparrel's Spar Spar- rel's reIs grandson randson and got up the bank by by tiie the wide patti path that lost Itself In Inthe Inthe the willows Cynthia stood by the door to the kitchen in n the lie evening listening for foran or oran an Instant to the lie QuIet flutter Dutter of the lire lI thIngs on Wolfpen about to receIve the dark The days In the garden with the sun on your back are good days das They ought to go 0 on and on forever Core The evening always ays comes so fast ast youe youve you've got thIngs to set out Then your bOdy feels eels so good after work just standing a 0 minute be- be be fore ore supper while another day goes out A body can see the dark come comeIn comein In the same way you see the bIg hand ot of the clock move mo you look away for tor the space o of a little thought and then when you look 1001 back agaIn It has mo moved ell or grown darker Jesse was comIng In from Barn Hollow lie He stopped ot at the beehives BarnI I by the garden fence to straIghten a arock arock rock under n a corner ot of one or of the boxes Jasper and came up from the barn Hows the lambing Jesse asked Ile He poured out water In the pan on the wash rock Thirty eight Ight lambs now fourteen pair twins said Jesse lall laughed hed nt at the way lee he saId It it Theres Bible for or It That one youn young ewe Is In some trouble Jasper said I feared that Sparrel said Cynthia felt elt n a surge or of pity for tor forthe the poor poor- ewe which was imperfect imperfect- imperfectly ly Iy equipped to bear the lamb she had conceived and was now ruth ruth- lessl trapped In n a snare whose pur pose lose Cynthia could not fathom There was a faint noIse In the or- or orchard or chard harl path behind the house Spar Sparl I Irei rel rei got II up The bo boys s 's listened Cn paused In the doorway Julia came from the kitchen It must he hc Nelson ln Is Jesse lesse said Tw Two o men on lime came fro from In the path Into the he yard allI e sate It was Nelsn and IIII a stranger Sao concentrated lIln I I II nn NI the er two O I i times wt were C ulI UIl in III th tar liI L iem 1 v u I III daylight Spar Spar-el well well-II III I II the I Irom rom where he howdy he said In n his deep I voice volee I Howdy foils Nelson said still holding to the bridle of the mules I I brought this feller over o from rom the landing lie says he wants to see you rOIl Youre welcome Sparrel said Come Corne In Thank you Mr Ir My Is er They shook hands These are my sons Ja Jasper per Je Jesse e and HowdY the thc boys said and shook hands one after the other My If wife and dau daughter removed remo-ed hIs hint and bowed Cynthia was taken by his bearing lies mannered good he sa says s 's to mother and he calls me Miss lIss Pattern and that sounds fun fun- funny un ny nobody ever er said that to me before You arc just t In time for supper Julia said politely It does docs smell like It and It smells good said From the end ot of the big table Sparrel |