With these two articles of food, cornbread and bacon, life could be hilarious on the frontier.

Keenness of appetite supplied the want of all other delicacies.
When they went to the cornfield to work, they first made a careful exploration of the region around, to see if there were any lurking savages near.

Then with their guns ever ready to be grasped, and keeping a close lookout for signs of danger, they ploughed and sowed and gathered in their harvest.
Thus fifteen years passed away.

Civilization made gradual encroachments.
Quite a little cluster of log huts was reared in the vicinity, where the inmates in case of necessity could flee to the fort for protection.
Christopher, at fifteen years of age, was an unlettered boy, small in stature, but very fond of the solitude of the forest, and quite renowned as a marksman.

He was amiable in disposition, gentle in his manners, and in all respects a good boy.