The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times
to shave, albeit his beard was never more than harmless down. By a sort of capillary attraction
der. "Go out and hire me a carriage wi
ed the hat i
h; "I want you to drive. Go with me,
mars
he tall, green, buckled hat, with the stiff, broad
e not disown thee now, because they give thee ridicule,
carriage, driven by his negro, and with two horses! Jack Wonnell took off his shining beaver to cheer. As the phenom
and soon entered upon the sandy, pine-slas
s and ridges, while in occasional level basins, where the stiff clay was exposed, some forester's unpainted hut sat black
nd scented the forest with perfume. The kalmia and the alder gave undergrowth and brilliancy to the foliage. Hoary and green with precipitate old age, the cypress-trees stood in moisture, and drooped the
like a giant plume of yellow and orange, a chief in joyou
l-spring shone at the bottom of a hollow cypress. He borrowed
negro, "dey say your gra
nder he lies, on the knoll by that stump, up
," added the negro, sociall
room and a loft, and the floor but a few in
two horses I'd
peach-trees, of which the largest grew on his ancestors' graves, the little cart for one horse or ox, which was
ed; "the worst of all is th
"Dey wouldn't speak to you in Princess Anne
eaches were formed as the sea slowly retreated. Hardly deeper than a human grave they strike water, below the sand and gravel. Below the water they drink is nothing but black mud,
ering nature broke out w
ster, de Milburns been heah so long, dey
ot upon an unrewarding land, and growing poorer, darker, down, from generat
to go some ob dese days.
set you on to de
ed about! Dar's none to mend for you, cook for
ntered the furnace village, and they saw the lights twinkle through the open doors of many cottages and the furnace flames dart over the forbidding mill-pond, where in the depths grew the iron ore, like a vegetable creation, and above the surface, on splayed and conical mud-washed roots, the hundreds of strong cypresses towered from the
depth and dread to the effect; some strange birds hooted as they dipped their wings in the surface, and, flying upw
," he said, "released the miasmas which slew all the peop