The promised whipping came slap down upon every thought of home." Travelling back with the wagon, after two days' journey, he met his brother again, who had then decided to return himself to the parental cabin in Tennessee.

He pleaded hard with David to accompany him reminding him of the love of his mother and his sisters.

The boy, though all unused to weeping, was moved to tears.

But the thought of the hickory stick, and of his father's brawny arm, decided the question.

With his friend Myers he pressed on, farther and farther from home, to Gerardstown..