Besides the resources of civilization, air, wood and water were drawn upon for game.

Virginia, already renowned for hospitality, was resolved that through her young sons, Stuart and Cabell, she should do her best that night.
A dozen young British officers were present, and there was much toasting and conviviality.

The tie of kinship between the old country and the new seemed stronger here than in New England, where the England of Cromwell still prevailed, or in New York, where the Dutch and other influences not English were so powerful.

They had begun with the best of feeling, and it was heightened by the warmth that food and drink bring.

They talked with animation of the great adventure, on which they would soon start, as Stuart and Cabell and most of the Virginians were going with Braddock.