Show how clark elved the gift broken by III health and bowed down by disappointment dark clark retired to private life lu in bitterness of soul and passed his remaining twenty three years of crapulous existence in obscurity and poverty friends called attention to darks clarks sad condition a few years before lie died lied and the legislature of virginia grandiloquently grandl acknowledged his great services and sent him a jeweled sword the old heros anger was aroused when virginia needed a sword 1 I gave her one he exclaimed to the messenger she now sends me this toy I 1 want bread and be he thrust the blade of o the costly gift into the ground and broke it at the hilt lyman tew sprague Bp to in george roberts dark clark and ills conquest of the middle west in outing magazine |