Slipping down to "Daddy Cyrus'" cabin, she told him of her plan of rescue, then back to her house she ran, her absence not having been noted. Then bringing all her womanly beauty, graciousness and charm to bear upon the Tories, she inticed them into the dining room, leaving her husband tightly bound to the tree where he was to meet his death,--and then from her mahogany sideboard, she served to them her famous muscadine wine. Drink after drink, she offered them, while her smiles and gay repartee allured them. More--more--and yet more, until their befuddled wits were completely gone.
Then faithful old "Daddy Cyrus" waiting, watching, guarding, with his sharp knife, cut the bonds of his "Young Marster," and into the darkness Capt. John was gone back to his comrades with a hurried kiss from the lips of his wife who had saved him.
The Tories were persuaded that the wine was the cause of their hazy belief of the capture of Capt. John Robert, and no harm was done to Elizabeth.
Poem composed by Mrs. C. M. O'Hara and read before David Meriwether Chapter, Greenville, Ga., Georgia day, 1911.
Georgia, the baby of the original thirteen, Not, however, youngest in importance, I ween, Was born to the colonies in seventeen thirty-two, To help those in prison their lives to renew. What Oglethorpe planned for this child of his heart Was that rum and slaves of it should not be a part, But this wayward child would have her own way, In spite of her mistakes she has made up to date, Georgia is called of the South the Empire State. She was the fifth of her sisters in secession to say, "The Union she'd leave" when there was not fair play. This child of famous men has sent her portion From the "marshes of Glynn" to the Pacific Ocean. Near Savannah, where Oglethorpe first planted his foot, Ebenezer, the first orphanage, has taken firm root. Another distinction, too, fair Georgia can claim Is the first college for women, Wesleyan by name. Towering intellects she reared in her Toombs and her Hills; She can boast of her factories and her mills; She has kept pace with her sisters in every movement That tends to her children's uplift and improvement. Now in heathen lands, across the deep waters, Performing deeds of mercy are Georgia's sons and daughters.