“Amen to that,” returned Joe. “And I also hope that we have had our last fight with the Indians.”
Here let me draw to a close this tale of adventures while “With Boone on the Frontier.”
The return to the cabin by our friends was the cause of another celebration. Mrs. Winship was much pleased by the new homestead, and it was decided that rather than build another cabin the old one should be enlarged and the two families should remain together until times became more settled.
The fights with the Indians continued for several months, but there were no engagements of importance, and in the fall some troops came in from the East, and then the uprisings became largely a thing of the past.
It was not long before Harry was able to be around again, and then the work of enlarging the cabin was begun in earnest. In the end the building was made nearly twice as large as before, and here the Parsons and the Winships dwelt for three years. Then Mr. Parsons, aided by the Winships, built another cabin for himself, and also started to cultivate an extra stretch of land.
During those years a warm attachment sprang up between Harry and Harmony, and one spring they became man and wife and went to settle on a farm of their own. A year later Joe was married to Clara Parsons, and they took a tract a little further west. At the same time Cora married Darry Ford, and the pair settled down beside Joe and Clara. It may be mentioned here that all were prosperous, and in later years Joe served in the State Legislature of Kentucky with much honor. Daniel Boone was especially proud of him, and often spoke of the young representative as “one of my boys, and a good one, too!”
The days of peril and privation are now a thing of the past in Kentucky, and prosperity flourishes on every hand. Yet it is well at times to look back and learn something of what the men of those days endured in order that the present generation might receive the blessings bestowed upon them.
THE FAMOUS ROVER BOYS SERIES
By ARTHUR W. WINFIELD