"It's not that they know anything of our affairs," he said, "but that they have got a prejudice against yourself, Mr.Garvald.They are foolish, hot-headed lads, very puffed up by their pride of gentrice, and I do not like the notion of their playing pranks in that tobacco-shed." I asked him a question which had long puzzled me, why the natural defence of a country should be kept so secret.

"The Governor, at any rate," I said, "would approve, and we are not asking the burgesses for a single guinea." "Yes, but the Governor would play a wild hand," was the answer.

"He would never permit the thing to go on quietly, but would want to ride at the head of the men, and the whole fat would be in the fire.

You must know.

Mr.Garvald, that politics run high in our Virginia.