"Why think of the magic Johnsmith book you read to me at Brentford, all about the paladin—so you called him, this English lad commanding the Christian guns, crusading against the Paynim Turks. Big warriors were these Indians you called Turks, clean fighters, but Johnsmith made bad medicine against them, new conceits you said of blazing serpents and fiery flying dragons which burned up the Turkish towns. His medicine was very powerful.
"You read me how he fought three Turkish war chiefs, Knights was the word you said, below the stockade called Reigall. He fought with the lance and finished with the sword, taking their three heads, and from the last of them a suit of golden armor.
"You told me how once at the Pass of the Rose Tower this dread chief armed all his pony soldiers with branches of trees soaked in pitch, then lighted them like torches and charged a Turkish Army which fled into the night, thinking the Devil was after them.
"Next of a tribe called Tartars, very bad Indians, more in number than the leaves of the forest, who killed Johnsmith and all his warriors in battle. But Johnsmith came alive again to be a war slave sold to Turkish squaws.
"From which captivity he did escape by using his chain to club down a Turkish war lord whose head he chopped off, then took his armor, sword, and horse for that great ride he made, the ride of a hundred days back to the Christian tribes. They hailed him as first of all their warriors.
"Then of his passage in the little trade ship which fought two Spanish battleships. Oh, you must remember how they boarded, and when they got the fore part of the ship he touched off his powder barrels there and blew up the forecastle.
"Last of his coming to London, only twenty-five years old, but passing rich in plunder, first of all warriors on earth in glory, and so beautiful a man that every woman worshiped him—even as I did."
"Oh well, it's only fairy tales," said Storm resignedly.
"Boo!" said all the fairies. "Boo-oo-oo!"
"Truly it was like a fairy tale," said Pocahontas, and the fairies were ever so pleased, "when Johnsmith came into Virginia.