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Two days later the party arrived at the fort on the bank of the Kentucky , and the relief of the distracted mothers as well as the general rejoicing over the safe return of the rescuers was great . After a rest of a day , the scout and all the party resumed their accustomed summer tasks . It was a few days afterward , while Peleg and Israel were engaged in hoeing a field of corn that belonged to Peleg , that the scout approached his friend . `` Peleg , '' he said , as he halted in front of the boy , `` we are to have a meeting in the fort to-morrow at noon and I hope you surely will be present . '' `` What is the meeting for ? '' `` We are to pass some laws . We now have more than one hundred and fifty souls in this little settlement , and up to the present time every one has been a law unto himself .