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g m rtlf artH of t t (§lh inmtntnn PRIZE ESSAY LD Virginia with her hospitable mansions set in the midst of fertile plantations, her lordly gentlemen of gay attire and courtly man- ners, her beautiful women of hoop-skirt days and dainty minuet, her love of the high- spirited and joyous, appeals to us of more prosaic times with a romantic charm not to be caught elsewhere. As we look upon the quaint portraits of those gentlemen, dames and maids of a day gone by, and as we gaze upon the sloAvly rolling James from the wide portico of some colonial mansion, our thoughts turn back to those sweet old days and we dream of the lives and loves of statelj dames and lovely maides. Perhaps we wander back to those first sweethearts of wilderness Virginia, and with our love of the romantic we picture the dusky beauties in their wild woodland life being wooed and won by brave warrior lovers. The same sj mpathetic moon cast its halo of charm over them that after the coming of the white man shed its radiance over the rude log cabms and mean existence of Jamestown. Never- theless the rude log cabins and strange white men held their attraction for at least one Indian maiden. We linger lovingly over the pictures of the dear little Princess Pocahontas bringing aide to the stricken settlers, of her baptism and marriage at that first little church at Jamestown, of her visit to England, where she was entertained right royally by Queen Anne and her subjects, of her touching interview with the loyal and brave Captain John Smith. We can hear her declare to him, You did promise Powhatan that
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