Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Henry St. John, Gentleman, of Flower of Hundreds, in the County of Prince George, Virginia: A Tale of 1774-75
The sun is shining brightly, the oriole swings to and fro on his lofty spray, and carols to the spring; the month of ?owers has dawned upon the world in all its loveliness, and scattered daisies, violets and buttercups on the green ex panse of smiling meadows, and along the grassy banks of streams.
Two children holding each other by the hand, take theil way through a forest stretching to the west of Williams burg, the old capital of Virginia.
They are a boy and a girl, apparently about ten years of age.
The boy is a gallant looking urchin, clad in a richly em broidered roundabout, drab shorts, and gayly colored stock ings, which disappear in high-quartered shoes, ornamented with rosettes of ribbon; his curling hair, framing ruddy cheeks, is surmounted [by a little cocked hat with a jaunty feather.
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