The Eagle had the stage-coach patronage, and thrice a week blew a lusty horn.

Besides the inns and the dwelling-houses there were stores and a half-built church, the Court House, and the shady Court House yard.
For a great part of the time, the Court House, the centre of gravity for the county, appeared to doze in the sunshine.

At stated intervals, however, it awoke, and the drowsy town with it.

Once awake, both became very wide awake indeed.

Court days doubled the population; an election made a beehive of the place.
It was the fourth Wednesday in April, and election day.