Very soon, as the Hon. Sam Budd predicted, they had
the hostility of Lee concentrated on them as siding with the
county of Wise, and they would gain, in addition now, the general
hostility of the Kentuckians, because as a crowd of meddlesome
"furriners" they would be siding with the Virginians in the
general enmity already alive. Moreover, now that the feud
threatened activity over in Kentucky, more trouble must come, too,
from that source, as the talk that came through the Gap, after
young Dave Tolliver's arrest, plainly indicated.
Town ordinances had been passed. The wild centaurs were no longer
allowed to ride up and down the plank walks of Saturdays with
their reins in their teeth and firing a pistol into the ground
with either hand; they could punctuate the hotel sign no more;
they could not ride at a fast gallop through the streets of the
town, and, Lost Spirit of American Liberty!--they could not even
yell. But the lawlessness of the town itself and its close
environment was naturally the first objective point, and the first
problem involved was moonshine and its faithful ally "the blind
tiger.
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