Chapter XIII: Smiles Through Tears

On one bright spring morning about six months after the events previously related, the woods in the vicinity of Fort Ann were filled with a brilliant assemblage of Continental officers and their ladies, who were all in a merry mood, for there was a wedding to take place between Captain Edgar Sherwood and Imogene Lear.

The whole week had been occupied in preparing the grove for this important occasion. Seats had been erected for the guests, and under the shade of a giant oak a picturesque bower twined with wild roses and luxuriant foliage, had been constructed for the reception of the clergyman. The regimental band also had found a place near at hand made for their benefit.

In a word, every thing had been arranged with the idea of making the captain’s wedding a grand affair. It was not to be in a gloomy church, or a fashionable drawing-room crowded to suffocation, but in a grand old forest, under the bright light of heaven.

The troops of the garrison were drawn up in a long line on either side of the walk leading to the bower, and, stationed here and there along the way, were young girls dressed in white, and holding baskets of flowers to strew before the bride and groom as they passed.

Every thing was in readiness. The shrill notes of a bugle heralded the approach of Edgar and Imogene; and presently they entered the grove attended by the hymeneal retinue. While the little party moved slowly forward toward the bower, the surrounding woods resounded with the melodious and thrilling notes of the band, and the birds sung their sweetest.

It was a beautiful sight to behold these two young lovers approaching the altar to pledge their hearts to each other, and to take those mutual vows of fidelity before God and man.

When they arrived at the bower, an old man came forward with feeble steps, and taking the hand of each he placed them together and murmured:

“My children, I bless you; may Heaven look down upon and prosper this union!”

It was Thomas Lear, Imogene’s father.

The reader must not be surprised at this, for a revolution had taken place in the old man’s politics since the opening of our story. Being naturally an enthusiastic admirer of justice and a lover of personal and political freedom, he had been, at length, aroused by the feeling of liberty that was everywhere prevalent, and was now a stanch believer in the war for independence.

This radical change had not come about spontaneously but gradually, growing out of observation. He had perceived the injustice of the mother country toward her most promising child, and finally became one of the most devoted adherents to the cause of the Colonies.

The minister now performed the marriage ceremony, and our hero and heroine were pronounced man and wife. In an instant, the dreadful Past, with all its woes and sorrows, was buried in the deepest recesses of oblivion, leaving the happy Present, as it were, like an insurmountable barrier between it and the bright and promising Future, which dawned fair and beautiful upon the horizon of their happiness.

Their more intimate friends--among whom were Colonel Hall and War-Cloud--pressed around the happy couple to congratulate them, while the soldiers gave three hearty cheers for their brave captain and his lady, making the woods, hills, and valleys ring with the echo of a thousand voices.

* * * * *

There now remains for us to add but a short epilogue and we will have finished. Captain Sherwood fought bravely during the remainder of the Revolution, and when the war was ended, and our country had just entered upon its newborn career of unrivaled greatness, he and Imogene took up their residence in the city of the Manhattans, where they spent many quiet and peaceful days while floating down the stream of life to the harbor of old age.

War-Cloud frequently paid them visits, bringing with him pretty and costly furs for the “little ones,” denoting that he had again taken to hunting the beast instead of Tories.

Hank Putney never made his appearance at the fort again; but we believe he became the chief of the Tory League after the death of Iron Hand, and during some quarrel between him and his ruffians he was killed.

The band soon after was exterminated, and nothing now remains of their former power, save the history of their many villainous deeds, which is written in blood!

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The Spanish Dance, La Tempete.

ROUND DANCES.--The Waltz a Trois Temps, Waltz in Double Time,
Cellarius or Mazourka Waltz, The Schottische, The Polka, the Galop,
Redowa, Polka Redowa, Esmeralda, Danish Polka, The Varsoviana.

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No. 1.--DIME COOK BOOK:

Or, the Housewife’s Pocket Companion. Embodying what is most
Economic, most Practical, most Excellent. Revised and enlarged
edition. 100 pp. 12mo. By Mrs. VICTOR.

EXTRACTS FROM CONTENTS.

BREAD.--Potato, Brown, Bran, Water, Rye and Indian, Wheat and Rye,
Milk, Rising, Buttermilk Bread, Bread Biscuit or Rolls, French
Rolls, Soda Biscuits, etc., etc.

HOT BREAD AND CAKES.--Short, Corn, Johnny, Apple Johnny, Griddle,
Rich Griddle, Buckwheat, Rice Griddle, Corn Griddle, and Tomato
Griddle Cakes, Bannock, Waffles, Muffins, Apple Fritters, Rye
Fritters, etc., etc.

OTHER BREAKFAST DISHES.--Toast, Dry Toast, Buttered Toast, Milk
Toast, Fried Rice, Omelet, Scrambled, Poached and Boiled Eggs,
Wheaten Grits, Hominy, Samp, Hasty Pudding.

MEATS.--Roasting, Boiling, Frying; sixteen various methods for
preparing same.

VEAL.--Boiled Veal, Fried Chops, Veal Pie, Leg of Veal, Loin of
Veal, Shoulder of Veal, Calves’ Feet, Calf’s Head and Liver.

MUTTON.--Mutton Chops, Chops as Beefsteaks, Neck of Mutton,
Shoulder of Mutton, Leg of Mutton, Haunch of Mutton, Saddle of
Mutton, Mutton Cutlets, Irish Stew, Leg of Lamb, etc.

PORK.--Pork Steaks, To Fry Pork, To Roast Pork, Spare Ribs of Pork,
To Boil a Ham, Pig’s Feet, Souse, Head Cheese, Fine Sausages,
Pickle for Hams, Salting Pork, To Melt Lard.

POULTRY AND GAME.--Roast and Boiled Turkey, Roast and Baked Goose,
Ducks, Roast Fowl, Chickens Boiled, Fowl Broiled, To Fricassee a
Fowl, Chicken Pie, To Cook Pigeons, etc.

FISH.--To Fry Fresh Fish or Eels, Baked Shad, To Broil Fresh Fish,
Fresh Codfish, Salt Codfish, Codfish Balls, Stewed Oysters, Fried
Oysters, Pickled Oysters, Chowder.

NICE BREAKFAST DISHES.--Fresh Meat, Griddles, Clam Griddles, Oyster
Pancakes, Fish Balls, Codfish Toast, Rice Balls, Hashed Mutton,
Head Cheese, A New Breakfast Dish.

SOUPS.--Beef, Vermicelli, Pea, Bean, Split Peas and Barley,
Vegetable and Rice, Tomato.

VEGETABLES.--Twenty different varieties.

SAUCES.--White, Caper for Fish, Egg, Plain Butter, Cranberry,
Apple, Sweet.

SALADS.--Radishes, Celery.

PIES.--Twenty-five different varieties.

PUDDINGS.--Christmas Plum Pudding, and eighteen other recipes.

CAKES.--Thirty-four recipes.

TEA, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE.--Eight recipes.

JELLIES, PRESERVES, ETC.--Forty-one recipes.

PICKLES.--To Pickle various kinds of Vegetables and Fish.

ICE CREAM.--How to make it.

OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL-FISH.

THE CARVER’S MANUAL.--General directions for Carving.

MISCELLANEOUS.--Chicken and Plum Pudding, Potato Muffins, Drop
Biscuit, etc., etc.

No. 2.--DIME RECIPE BOOK:

A Companion to the Dime Cook Book. A Directory for the Parlor,
Nursery, Sick Room, Toilet, Kitchen, Larder, etc. Revised and
enlarged edition. By Mrs. Victor.

EXTRACTS FROM CONTENTS.

THE PARLOR.--To choose Carpets, Directions for Carpets, To clean
Turkey Carpets, Moth in Carpets, To extract Oil or Spermaceti
from Carpets, etc., To make Stair Carpets last, Cheap Carpet,
To wash Carpets, to sweep Carpets, House Cleaning, to clean
Looking-glasses, Oil Paintings, Mahogany, etc., To preserve Gilding
and clean it, To take Stains out of Mahogany, to clean Brass
Ornaments, Marble, Lamp, Paint, To polish Mahogany, To remove
Grease from Books, To prevent Mold in Books, Paste, Ink, and
Leather, To clean Silver-plated Candlesticks, To remove Rust, etc.

THE NURSERY AND SICK ROOM.--Clothing of Infants, Waking Suddenly,
Restlessness at Night, Ointment for Seurf in the Heads of Infants,
Teething, Vaccination, Worms in Children, About Children, Hair of
Children, Hooping Cough, Dysentery, Scarlet Fever, Putrid Sore
Throat, etc., A Cure for Burns, Scalds, Body in Flames, and seventy
more recipes.

FOOD FOR THE SICK.--A Strengthening Jelly for Invalids, Mutton
Custard for Bowel Complaints or Consumptive Cases, Chicken, Beef,
etc., Toast Water, Rice Jelly, Bread Jelly, Calves’ Feet Broth,
Panada, Beef Tea, Wine Whey, Water Gruel, Milk Porridge, Rice
Gruel, Medicated Prunes.

THE TOILET; THE HAIR.--To remove Dandruff, A Capital Pomade,
Twiggs’ Receipt for the Hair, Bandoline for the Hair, Hair-curling
Liquid, Oil of Roses.

THE TEETH.--To clean the Teeth and Gums, Quinine Tooth Powder,
Prepared Charcoal, Peruvian Bark Powder, Homeopathic Chalk, Cuttle
Fish Powder, Lip Salve.

THE HANDS.--To remove Stains from the Hands, To improve the Hands
and Arms, Ointment for the Hands, Chapped Hands.

THE COMPLEXION.--To preserve It, Wash for a Blotched Face, To
remove Sunburn, Blotches, Freckles, Pimples, Kalydor for Complexion.

COSMETICS, PERFUMES, Etc.--Face Powder, Pearl Powder, Rowland’s
Macassar Oil, and twenty more recipes.

CARE OF CLOTHING.--Furs, Woolen, Silk, Gloves, Ribbons, Lace,
Bonnets, etc.

THE KITCHEN.--To can Fruit, Pears, Quinces, Berries, Peas, Beans,
Tomatoes, Green Corn, To preserve Fruit Jellies from Mold, To
prevent “Graining,” and seventy-five more recipes.

MELANGE.

HOW TO MAKE BUTTER AND CHEESE.

PROCESS OF WINE-MAKING.

MISCELLANEOUS.--To mend China, To get rid of Bedbugs and
Cockroaches, To make Ink, To manufacture Candles, To repair Broken
Glass, and a hundred other useful recipes.

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=No. 1--Hawkeye Harry, the Young Trapper Ranger.= By Oll Coomes.

=No. 2--Dead Shot=; or, The White Vulture. By Albert W. Aiken.

=No. 3--The Boy Miners=; or, The Enchanted Island. By Edward S.
Ellis.

=No. 4--Blue Dick=; or, The Yellow Chief’s Vengeance. By Capt.
Mayne Reid.

=No. 5--Nat Wolfe=; or, The Gold-Hunters. By Mrs. M. V. Victor.

=No. 6--The White Tracker=; or, The Panther of the Plains. By
Edward S. Ellis.

=No. 7--The Outlaw’s Wife=; or, The Valley Ranche. By Mrs. Ann S.
Stephens.

=No. 8--The Tall Trapper=; or, The Flower of the Blackfeet. By
Albert W. Aiken.

=No. 9--Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail.= By Capt.
Adams.

=No. 10--The Island Pirate.= A Tale of the Mississippi. By
Captain Mayne Reid.

=No. 11--The Boy Ranger=; or, The Heiress of the Golden Horn. By
Oll Coomes.

=No. 12--Bess, the Trapper.= A Tale of the Far South-west. By
Edward S. Ellis.

=No. 13--The French Spy=; or, The Fall of Montreal. By W. J.
Hamilton.

=No. 14--Long Shot=; or, The Dwarf Guide. By Capt. Comstock.

=No. 15--The Gunmaker of the Border.= By James L. Bowen.

=No. 16--Red Hand=; or, The Channel Scourge. By A. G. Piper.

=No. 17--Ben, the Trapper=; or, The Mountain Demon. By Maj. Lewis
W. Carson.

=No. 18--Wild Raven, the Ranger=; or, The Missing Guide. By Oll
Coomes.

=No. 19--The Specter Chief=; or, The Indian’s Revenge. By Seelin
Robins.

=No. 20--The B’ar-Killer=; or, The Long Trail. By Capt. Comstock.

=No. 21--Wild Nat=; or, The Cedar Swamp Brigade. By Wm. R. Eyster.

=No. 22--Indian Jo, the Guide.= By Lewis W. Carson.

=No. 23--Old Kent, the Ranger.= By Edward S. Ellis.

=No. 24--The One-Eyed Trapper.= By Capt. Comstock.

=No. 25--Godbold, the Spy.= A Tale of Arnold’s Treason. By N. C.
Iron.

=No. 26--The Black Ship.= By John S. Warner.

=No. 27--Single Eye, the Scourge.= By Warren St. John.

=No. 28--Indian Jim.= A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre. By Edward
S. Ellis.

=No. 29--The Scout.= By Warren St. John.

=No. 30.--Eagle Eye.= By W. J. Hamilton.

=No. 31--The Mystic Canoe.= A Romance of a Hundred Years Ago. By
Edward S. Ellis.

=No. 32--The Golden Harpoon=; or, Lost Among the Floes. By Roger
Starbuck.

=No. 33--The Scalp King.= By Lieut. Ned Hunter.

=No. 34--Old Lute, the Indian-fighter=; or, The Den in the Hills.
By E. W. Archer.

=No. 35--Rainbolt, the Ranger=; or, The Demon of the Mountain. By
Oll Coomes.

=No. 36--The Boy Pioneer.= By Edward S. Ellis.

=No. 37--Carson, the Guide=; or, the Perils of the Frontier. By
Lieut. J. H. Randolph.

=No. 38--The Heart Eater=; or, The Prophet of the Hollow Hill. By
Harry Hazard.

=No. 39--Wetzel, the Scout=; or, The Captive of the Wilderness.
By Boynton Belknap.

=No. 40--The Huge Hunter=; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies. By
Ed. S. Ellis.

=No. 41--Wild Nat, the Trapper.= By Paul Prescott.

=No. 42--Lynx-cap=; or, The Sioux Track, By Paul Bibbs.

=No. 43--The White Outlaw=; or, The Bandit Brigand. By Harry
Hazard.

=No. 44--The Dog Trailer.= By Frederick Dewey.

=No. 45--The Elk King.= By Capt. Chas. Howard.

=No. 46--Adrian, the Pilot.= By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.

=No. 47--The Man-hunter.= By Maro O. Rolfe.

=No. 48--The Phantom Tracker.= By Frederick Dewey.

=No. 49--Moccasin Bill.= By Paul Bibbs.

=No. 50--The Wolf Queen.= By Captain Charles Howard.

=No. 51--Tom Hawk, the Trailer.= By Lewis Jay Swift.

=No. 52--The Mad Chief.= By Captain Chas. Howard.

=No. 53--The Black Wolf.= By Edwin E. Ewing.

=No. 54--Arkansas Jack.= By Harry Hazard.

=No. 55--Blackbeard.= By Paul Bibbs.

=No. 56--The River Rifles.= By Billex Muller.

=No. 57--Hunter Ham.= By J. Edgar Iliff.

=No. 58--Cloudwood=; or, The Daughter of the Wilderness. By J. M.
Merrill.

=No. 59--The Texas Hawks.= By Jos. E. Badger, Jr.

=No. 60--Merciless Mat.= By Capt. Chas. Howard.

=No. 61--Mad Anthony’s Scouts.= By Emerson Rodman.

=No. 62--The Luckless Trapper=; or, The Haunted Hunter. By
William R. Eyster.

=No. 63--The Florida Scout=; or, The Princess of the Everglades.
By Jos. E. Badger, Jr.

=No. 64--The Island Trapper.= By Capt. Chas. Howard. Ready

=No. 65--Wolf-Cap.= By Capt. Chas. Howard. Ready

=No. 66--Rattling Dick.= By Harry Hazard. Ready Jan. 2d.

=No. 67--Sharp-Eye.= By Major Max Martine. Ready

=No. 68--Iron Hand.= By Frederick Forest. Ready

=No. 69--The Yellow Hunter.= By Capt. Chas. Howard. Ready Feb.
13th.

=No. 70--The Phantom Rider.= By Maro O. Rolfe. Ready Feb. 27th.

=No. 71--Delaware Tom.= By Harry Hazard. Ready March. 18th.

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Transcriber’s Notes

The Table of Contents at the beginning of the book was created by
the transcriber.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation such as “post-paid”/“postpaid” have
been maintained.

Minor punctuation and spelling errors have been silently corrected
and, except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the
text, especially in dialogue, and inconsistent or archaic usage,
have been retained.

Page 59: “whose feeble glare served only to highten” changed to
“whose feeble glare served only to heighten”.

Page 78: “Who could this mystersous” changed to “Who could this
mysterious”.

Page 79: “The crisis of thier” changed to “The crisis of their”.

Page 88: “at the bottom of the mysttery” changed to “at the bottom
of the mystery”.