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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South
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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South

    By Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 - Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

      Project Gutenberg's Lights And Shadows Of The South, by Charles M. Skinner

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Lights And Shadows Of The South Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 5.

      Author: Charles M. Skinner

      Release Date: October 22, 2006 [EBook #6610]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND

                                         By

                                 Charles M. Skinner

      Vol. 5.

      LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH

      CONTENTS:

      The Swim at Indian Head

      The Moaning Sisters

      A Ride for a Bride

      Spooks of the Hiawassee

      Lake of the Dismal Swamp

      The Barge of Defeat

      Natural Bridge

      The Silence Broken

      Siren of the French Broad

      The Hunter of Calawassee

      Revenge of the Accabee

      Toccoa Falls

      Two Lives for One

      A Ghostly Avenger

      The Wraith Ringer of Atlanta

      The Swallowing Earthquake

      The Last Stand of the Biloxi

      The Sacred Fire of Natchez

      Pass Christian

      The Under Land

      LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH

      THE SWIM AT INDIAN HEAD

      At Indian Head, Maryland, are the government proving-grounds, where the racket of great guns and splintering of targets are a deterrent to the miscellaneous visitations of picnics. Trouble has been frequently associated with this neighborhood, as it is now suggested in the noisy symbolry of war. In prehistoric days it was the site of an aboriginal town, whose denizens were like other Indians in their love for fight and their willingness to shed blood. Great was the joy of all these citizens when a scouting party came in, one day, bringing with them the daughter of one of their toughest old hunters and a young buck, from another faction, who had come a-courting; her in the neighboring shades.

      Capture meant death, usually, and he knew it, but he held himself proudly and refused to ask for mercy. It was resolved that he should die. The father's scorn for his daughter, that she should thus consort with an enemy, was so great that he was on the point of offering her as a joint sacrifice with her lover, when she fell on her knees before him and began a fervent appeal, not for herself, but for the prisoner. She would do anything to prove her strength, her duty, her obedience, if they would set him free. He had done injury to none. What justice lay in putting him to the torture?

      Half in earnest, half in humor, the chief answered, Suppose we were to set him on the farther shore of the Potomac, do you love him well enough to swim to him?

      I do.

      The river is wide and deep.

      I would drown in it rather than that harm should come to him.

      The old chief ordered the captive, still bound, to be taken to a point on the Virginia shore, full two miles away, in one of their canoes, and when the boat was on the water he gave the word to the girl, who instantly plunged in and followed it. The chief and the father embarked in another birch—ostensibly to see that the task was honestly fulfilled; really, perhaps, to see that the damsel did not drown. It was a long course, but the maid was not as many of our city misses are, and she reached the bank, tired, but happy, for she had saved her lover and gained him for a husband.

      THE MOANING SISTERS

      Above Georgetown, on the Potomac River, are three rocks, known as the Three Sisters, not merely because of their

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