JOHN FOX, JR'S.
STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.
- Illustrated by F, C. Yohn.
The "lonesome pine" from which the story takes its name was a tall tree that stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pice lured a young shelter he found not only the pine but the foot-prints of a girl. And the girl proved to De lovely, piquant, and the trail of these girlish foot-prints led the young engineer a madder chase than "the trail of the lonesome pine."
THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME
- Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come." It is a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and homes, from which often springs the flower of civilization.
"Chad" the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence he came—he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood, seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered and mothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery—a charming waif, by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else in the mountains,
A KNIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND.
- Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberlands the lair of moonshiner and feudsman. The knights is a moonshiner's son, and the heroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Two young impetuous young southerners fall under the spell of "The Blight's" charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in the love making of the mountaineers.
Included in this volume is "Hell-fer-Sartain" and other stories, some of Mr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.
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