As to provisions, which they make such a rout about, I have plenty for your men and horses in yonder barn, but you must affect to take them by force.

Hams, bacon, rice, and fodder, are there.

You must insist on the key of the barn, and threaten to split the door with an axe if not immediately opened.' I begged her to say no more, for I was well acquainted with all such matters--to leave the ladies and everything else to my management.

She said 'Yes; but do not ruin us: be artful and cunning, or Mr.White may be hanged and all our houses burnt over our heads.' We both secretly returned, she to the room where the young ladies were, and I to the piazza I had just left."*1* This little narrative will give some idea of the straits to which the good whig matrons of Carolina were sometimes reduced in those days.

But no time was allowed Horry to extort the provisions as suggested.