. Highways and byways of the South. sently had the firebriskly blazing. Then she took a spade minus ahandle that served as a fire shovel and poked somecoals out on the hearth. Over the coals she set along-legged griddle which she had Jimmy wipe offand grease. He seemed to be expert at this task, andI hinted that he could probably do the cooking for thewhole family if necessary. Jimmy giggled, and his grandmother said reprov-ingly: Wha yo laughin at? Ill take sompin andknock yo down. If I pen on you fo a cook, Ireckon Id peish. At length the flam cakes were fried, the tea wasready, and she had
. Highways and byways of the South. sently had the firebriskly blazing. Then she took a spade minus ahandle that served as a fire shovel and poked somecoals out on the hearth. Over the coals she set along-legged griddle which she had Jimmy wipe offand grease. He seemed to be expert at this task, andI hinted that he could probably do the cooking for thewhole family if necessary. Jimmy giggled, and his grandmother said reprov-ingly: Wha yo laughin at? Ill take sompin andknock yo down. If I pen on you fo a cook, Ireckon Id peish. At length the flam cakes were fried, the tea wasready, and she had Jimmy crawl under the bed and ex-hume some knives, forks, and spoons from a he handed up one at a time, and she wipedeach in turn and placed it on the table. She alsoprovided a remnant of cold ham, and a little whitesugar in a broken bowl. Yet the meal, though rudeand long delayed, was not unpalatable, and my visitin that negro home was one of the most interesting ofmy experiences on the battle-field. XI JOHN BROWN S TOWN. H A RPE RSFERRY is the most pic-turesque village I haveseen in America. Thesurrounding scenery isbeautiful and impres-sive — steep, woodedmountains, cliffs, andtangled hills, and theShenandoah and Po-tomac rivers flowingthrough the valleydepths. In the angle,where the two riversunite, stands the town, built tier on tier along A Doorstep Maid i „ c u *. ^ the slopes or an abrupt and lofty hill. Some of the buildings are many stories high on the lower side. They are usually of brick or stone, and have frequent dormer windows in the roofs, 244 John Browns Town 245 Immense chimneys, and quaint piazzas and porches. Iwas constantly reminded of ancient Edinburgh, andI do not know where else I could go either South orNorth to get such a flavor of trans-Atlantic archi-tecture and venerableness. Evidently the village was formerly more populous ;for vacant, half-ruinous structures are common, andwindowless, staring walls are not lacking. The streetsire
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