Two Little Confederates

om the later one, it passed in old times as one of the best plantations in all that region. The boys thought it the greatest place in the world, of course exc

d coons, and which reached to the edge of "Holetown," stretched between the house and the other, so that the big gate-post where the semi-weekly mail was left by the mail-rider each Tuesday and Friday afternoon was a long walk, even by the near cut through the woods. The railroad was ten miles away by the road. There was a nearer way, onl

distinguish it from all the other houses on the place, of which there

e edge of the yard which was called "The Office," and was used as such, as well as for a lodging-place by the young men of the family. The privilege of sleeping in the Office was highly esteemed, for, like the toga virilis, it marked the entrance upon

ave himself airs in proportion; but Hugh they regarded as a very aged person; not as old, it was true, as their cousins who came down from college at Christmas, and who, at the first outbreak of war, all rushed into the army; but each of these was in the bo

ide; Uncle Balla spoke of them as "them chillern," which generally implied something of reproach; and Lucy Ann, who had been taken into the house to "r

l ideas about war being formed from an intimate acquaintance with the Bible and its accounts of the wars of the Children

d the company, who were discussing the merits of probable leaders of the Union armies,

ir older brother, when he would let them go, and after the cows with Peter and Cole. Old Balla, the driver, was their boon comr

ia). His room over "the old kitchen" was the boys' play-room when he would permit th

hide-and-seek about the yard or garden, or upstairs

was one of their haunts. They fished in it for minnows and little perch; they

gments of Pharaoh's chariots which might have been washed up so hig