On the Virginia frontier around Winchester, young Verty, a wild son of the forest, roams the woods, shoots a white pigeon, goes hawking without a hawk and falls in love with gentle Redbud. Around them gather comic townsfolk, among them the poet-lawyer Mr. Roundjacket, as Cooke paints the manners and humours of the old border.
A light, picturesque romance of colonial Virginia by the Southern novelist of The Virginia Comedians. Download the free EPUB.