"I hunt to the eastward.

Twenty miles, maybe.
You're never going to climb them ?" "We are come out expressly to do so," answered the other heartily, "having a mind to drink the King's health with our heads in the clouds! We need another axeman to clear away the fallen trees and break the nets of grapevine.

Wilt go along amongst our rangers yonder, and earn a pistole and undying fame ?" The woodsman looked from the knot of gentlemen to the troop of hardy rangers, who, with a dozen ebony servants and four Meherrin Indians, made up the company.

Under charge of the slaves were a number of packhorses.
Thrown across one was a noble deer; a second bore a brace of wild turkeys and a two-year-old bear, fat and tender; a third had a legion of pots and pans for the cooking of the woodland cheer; while the burden of several others promised heart's content of good liquor.

From the entire troop breathed a most enticing air of gay daring and good-fellowship.