running for dear life, closely pursued by redmen, who were brandishing scalping knives. Without a moment’s hesitation Peggy sprang from her horse, and put the white man on it, then giving it a few smacks across the flanks, sent the animal galloping away, trusting to her own long legs to escape the savage pursuers. Somerset County was also the home of Rebecca Statler and Rhoda Boyd, heroines of Indian adventures. Near “Molly Pitcher’s” handsome moniment in the ancient Cemetery at Carlisle, are the graves of Hugh H. Brackenridge, the distinguished Pittsburg Jurist, and author of that amusing work “Modern Chivalry,” a story much on the style of “Don Quixote”--and his wife, formerly the Pennsylvania German girl Sabina Wolfe. On one of Judge Brackenridge’s horseback journeys through the mountains he noticed the graceful Sabina nimbly vaulting over a stake and rider fence, and fell in love with her on the spot; athletic prowess still seems to be a compelling motive in the awakening of love, for we have recently read in the papers of a wealthy western youth who eloped with a show girl, who he said he fell in love with after she had won a race on a Pogo stick at the Midnight Follies. The Brackenridge-Wolfe marriage turned out very well, so much so that the unknown Sabina soon became the social arbiter of the Smoky City. Pennsylvania Mountain girls are noted not only for their beauty, but for their courage. Kentucky accords a high place in history to the small dark girl, Mabel Hite, whose forbears went from Berks County to the “Dark and Bloody Ground” for her heroism in carrying water under a heavy fire from hostile Indians to the brave defenders of the Fort at Bryant’s Station, who were an earlier “Lost Battalion” and might have perished of thirst but for the intrepid bravery of this young Pennsylvania girl. Barbara Frietchie, who some historians say was a myth, but will ever be immortalized in Whittier’s stirring poem, was born in Pennsylvania, but was taken to Frederick, Maryland, by her parents at an early age. Your speaker once asked General Henry Kyd Douglas of Hagerstown, who was an Aide to General “Stonewall” Jackson during his famous ride through Frederick Town, if Barbara Frietchie really lived. The old General replied that he knew Barbara well, that she was no myth, the only mythical part was that the flag which she hung out was the stars and bars, and not the stars and stripes. Perhaps in the excess of his Southern sympathies, this gallant old Confederate may have been temporarily color blind. Another celebrated frontier girl was Frances Slocum, the Indian captive of the Wyoming Valley, whose memory is splendidly perpetuated by the able historians of the North Branch Valley; then there is Elizabeth Zane, the early love of Daniel Boone, a Pennsylvania frontier girl whose life was full of stirring adventures, and whose relatives were the founders of Zanesville, Ohio; there is Jennie Wade, the unhappy heroine of the Battle of Gettysburg,