title: Yonderings: Trails and Memories of the Big Bend
author: Ben H. English
description: <DIV>An eighth-generation Texan, BEN H. ENGLISH was raised mostly in the Lajitas-Terlingua area. An honors graduate of Angelo State University, he served in the United States Marine Corps for seven years, was a high school teacher, and retired after twenty-two years in the Texas Highway Patrol.</DIV>
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  # The Headsman; or, The Abbaye des Vignerons, Volume 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Fenimore Cooper
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit
  
  
  of that long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of
  
  
  Moudon in Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately
  
  
  above the little city of Vévey. The postilion had dismounted to chain
  
  
  a wheel, and the halt enabled those he conducted to catch a glimpse of
  
  
  the lovely scenery of that remarkable view.
  
  
    
  The travellers were an American family, which had long been
  
  
  wandering about Europe, and which was now destine