This is all that was known of Little Darby, except that a year or more afterward, and nearly a year after Mrs. Stanley’s death, a package with an old needle-case in it and a stained little Testament with a bullet hole through it, was left at the Cross-roads, with a message that a man who had died at the house of the person who left it as he was trying to make his way back to his command, asked to have that sent to Vashti Mills. The End. NOTES: Thomas Nelson Page is known primarily for his short stories. 1853. Born at Oakland Plantation, in Hanover County, Virginia. 1872. Graduated from Washington and Lee University. 1874. Received his degree in law from the University of Virginia. 1922. Died. Some books by Thomas Nelson Page: In Ole Virginia. Meh Lady. A Story of the War. Marse Chan. A Tale of Old Virginia. The Burial of the Guns. Elsket and Other Stories. Newfound River. The Old South. Polly. A Christmas Recollection. Among the Camps. Young People’s Stories of the War. Two Little Confederates. “Befo’ de War.” Echoes of Negro Dialect. (with A. C. Gordon) End of Project Gutenberg’s The Burial of the Guns, by Thomas Nelson Page