The Reign of Law

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foot-hold stronghold freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp - with remem-brance of Virginia with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days when they lived with wife child flock in frontier wooden fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water salt game tillage - in the very summer of that wild daylight ride of Tomlin-son and Bell by comparison with which my children the midnight ride of Paul Revere was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in a boy's nursery - on that history-making twelfth of August of the year 1782 when these two backwoods riflemen during that same Revolution the Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same British army rushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the settlements and the saving of the West - hemp was growing tall and thick near the walls of the fort.