"Now," said he, "you need not be uneasy while you are here.

Yonder hang four good Sharp's rifles, and I and my boys know how to use them; and nobody shall touch you unless they walk over our dead bodies." As soon as father was able to travel we finished our journey in safety.

We visited our old friends in Illinois, and father preached on Sundays.

While we were at Mt.

Sterling, he lectured on temperance one night, and the bad fellows made a little disturbance.