You may not know me.

My family were Kentuckians before my father came out to Franklin.

I started up in the law at old Liberty town yonder not so long ago, but I've been away a great deal." "The law, eh ?" Jesse Wingate again looked disapproval of the young man's rather pronouncedly neat turnout.

"Then you're not going West ?" "Oh, yes, I am, if you please, sir.

I've done little else all my life.
Two years ago I marched with all the others, with Doniphan, for Mexico.
Well, the war's over, and the treaty's likely signed.