Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48291-h.htm or 48291-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48291/48291-h/48291-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48291/48291-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (licens^d). STRANGE STORIES OF THE GREAT VALLEY [Illustration: (See page 12 "GOOD LUCK! GOOD LUCK!" SHOUTED DOBY. "I'VE FOUND THE THING I MOST NEED")] STRANGE STORIES OF THE GREAT VALLEY The Adventures of a Boy Pioneer by JOHNSTON GROSVENOR Illustrated [Illustration: logo] Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London STRANGE STORIES OF THE GREAT VALLEY Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD ix CHAPTER I. LONG, LONG AGO 1 Digging for treasure-trove with Parson Cutler among the Mound-Builders' work at Marietta. CHAPTER II. TAMING THE WILD 15 Helping Johnny Appleseed to teach a red deer near the seat of Burr's Conspiracy at the Fairy Isle of Belpre. CHAPTER III. GOBBLE! GOBBLE! 28 Bagging a wild turkey to feast Ol' Pap Soisson after his story of the French Grant at Gallipolis. CHAPTER IV. MAKING A SCOUT 41 Saving Simon Kenton's foxhound from the dangers of the new city of Cincinnati. CHAPTER V. BLUE-JAY FEATHERS 55 Riding with Colonel Johnson's Long Hunters down the Clark War Road to the rescue of Boonesboro. CHAPTER VI. LEFT HIND FOOT 77 Henry Clay's home at Ashland and a runaway slave from Cumberland Gap. CHAPTER VII. THE DROWSY VILLAGE 96 A man-hunt in the vineyards of the Dufours' Swiss colony at Vevay. CHAPTER VIII. GOIN' TO MEETIN' 109 Wrestling with Lorenzo Dow and the rowdies in camp-meeting time at the Big Falls. CHAPTER IX. UNDER THE ELM 123 A boy's trial by Judge Jonathan Jennings during a recess of the Constitutional Convention at Corydon. CHAPTER X. THE SPELLING-MATCH 139 Reciting and writing by moonlight to please a little stranger in an early school of Spencer County. CHAPTER XI. A PIONEER PUPPY 154 Struggling with wolves on the way to Old Vincennes over the bottom-land of the Wabash.