Told in the Hills: A Novel

  JOHN FOX, JR'S. STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS

  THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  The "lonesome pine" from which the story takes its name was a tall treethat stood in solitary splendor on a mountain top. The fame of the pinelured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when hefinally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but thefoot-prints of a girl. And the girl proved to be lovely, piquant, andthe trail of these girlish foot-prints led the young engineer a madderchase than "the trail of the lonesome pine."

  THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come." Itis a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and honest from which oftensprings the flower of civilization.

  "Chad," the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence hecame--he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood,seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered andmothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery--a charming waif,by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else in themountains.

  A KNIGHT OF THE CUMBERLAND.

  Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.

  The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair ofmoonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and theheroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Twoimpetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of "The Blight's"charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in thelove making of the mountaineers.

  Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, some ofMr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.