"
"What, you have been a soldier, have you, trapper! I made a forage or
two among the Cherokees, when I was a lad myself; and I followed mad
Anthony,[*] one season, through the beeches; but there was altogether
too much tatooing and regulating among his troops for me; so I left
him without calling on the paymaster to settle my arrearages. Though,
as Esther afterwards boasted, she had made such use of the pay-ticket,
that the States gained no great sum, by the oversight. You have heard
of such a man as mad Anthony, if you tarried long among the soldiers."
[*] Anthony Wayne, a Pennsylvanian distinguished in the war of the
revolution, and subsequently against the Indians of the west, for
his daring as a general, by which he gained from his followers the
title of Mad Anthony. General Wayne was the son of the person
mentioned in the life of West as commanding the regiment which
excited his military ardour.
"I fou't my last battle, as I hope, under his orders," returned the
trapper, a gleam of sunshine shooting from his dim eyes, as if the
event was recollected with pleasure, and then a sudden shade of sorrow
succeeding, as though he felt a secret admonition against dwelling on
the violent scenes in which he had so often been an actor.
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