The Frontiersmen

Craddock, Charles Egbert · 1922

Author of _A Spectre of Power_, _The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains_, _In the Tennessee Mountains_, etc. The mental image of the world is of individual and varying compass. It may be likened to one of those curious Chinese balls of quaintly carved ivory, containing other balls, one within another, the proportions ever dwindling with each successive inclosure, yet each a more minute duplicate of the external sphere. This might seem the least world of all,--the restricted limits of the quadrangle of this primitive stockade,--but Peninnah Penelope Anne Mivane had known no other than such as this. It was large enough for her, for a fairy-like face, very fair, with golden brown hair, that …

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