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along, with a red silk handkerchief thrown over his head, singing a stirring Methodist hymn.
“We saw deer and turkey tracks along the way and once two bucks, with their antlers in the velvet, bounded across the road.”
The first period of the settlement draws to a close. The state offices have at last been moved from Corydon and the Legislature is about to meet in the new capital, which to this time has had only the honor of the name.
The second period of the settlement opens with new and interesting events to record, but we search in vain for further entries in the diary.
With increasing family cares, the writer has found little time to devote to her journal and the entries become brief and infrequent, until at last they cease altogether as the pen drops from the busy fingers.
The day is not long enough for the home maker to finish the work of the household and her labors are continued into the night. Then the finished patchwork quilt is taken out of the frame and spread upon the big bed in the corner; and the boys are tucked into the trundle bed, drawn out to receive their tired bodies.
A fresh log is laid on the red coals in the fireplace; the lighted candle is placed on the stand by the window to guide the homeward steps of the husband and father.
The evening tasks are finished, finished except one.
With a sigh of relief, the mother, a pioneer of the Capital in the Wilderness,’ bends over her baby’s cradle and sings him to sleep with a soothing lullaby ; with this sweet music my Allegro ceases.
