she saw and knew him,

The stranger gal to his amaze scream'd out and

clung unto him.

Then in a voice all thick and wild, exclaim'd that

gal unlucky,

"O Sir, I'm Jason Jones's child—he's dead

stabb'd in Kentucky!

And father's gone, and O I've come to you

across the mountains."

And then the little one was dumb, and Abe's