Tabor

There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for beaver control measures at Tabor Correctional Institution in Tabor City.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

"Halloo," shouted Captain Tabor, and two more men came running to the side, then more still, till it was overhung by a whole row of red English faces.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

Calvin Tabor managed his part to tranship those goods without discovery, but he had a shrewd head, and no doubt the captain of the Earl of Fairfax another, and by eight o'clock that May day the Golden Horn lay at her wharf discharging her cargo right lustily with such openness of zeal and shouts of encouragement and groans of labour 'twas enough to acquaint all the colony.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

Calvin Tabor laughed, and cast a glance of merry malice at me, and bowed low as he replied:

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

She listened with deepening eyes while I told her Captain Tabor's scheme, and when I had done looked at me with her beautiful mouth set and her face as white as a white flower on a bush beside her.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

It was finally agreed that Captain Tabor's plan should be carried out, and I wended my way back to Drake Hill with a feeling of triumph, to which I of late years had been a stranger.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

Then came Captain Tabor to my aid with his merry shrewdness.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

"Yes, praised be God, Mistress Cavendish," answered Captain Tabor, "and with fine head winds to swell the sails and no pirates."

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

"'Tis a fearful risk for you, Captain Tabor, and through you for my mistress," I interrupted, for I did not half like the plan.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

I explained, being somewhat mollified, and also somewhat of his way of thinking, that men there were, but there was little gold since the Navigation Act. And I informed Captain Tabor how Mistress Mary Cavendish, having an estate not so heavily charged with expenses as some, and being her own mistress with regard to the disposal of its revenues, had the means which the men lacked.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900