. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . turbed herd walk slowly and mournfullyaway, huddling together as if for protection. At last the horseman, loosening alittle the dreadful noose, forces the subdued creature to follow him submissively,and so takes him to the slaughter. NEW TOWNS CAMPING OUT. 123 This wonderful expanse of plain, which melts away so delicately into thebright blue
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . turbed herd walk slowly and mournfullyaway, huddling together as if for protection. At last the horseman, loosening alittle the dreadful noose, forces the subdued creature to follow him submissively,and so takes him to the slaughter. NEW TOWNS CAMPING OUT. 123 This wonderful expanse of plain, which melts away so delicately into thebright blue of the cloudless sky, has inspiration in it. The men and womenwhom one meets at the little stations along the road are alert and vigorous;the glow of health is upon them ; the very horses are full of life, and gallopbriskly, tossing their heads and distending their nostrils. Every half hour we reach some small town of board shanties, crowned withambitious signs. Each of these hamlets is increasing weekly by fifties andhundreds in population. As the train passes, the negroes gather in groups togaze at it until it disappears in the distance. At one lonely little house on theedge of a superb wheat country a group of Germans, newly come, is patiently. As the train passes, the negroes gather in groups to gaze at it until it disappears in the distance. waiting transportation into the interior. The black-gowned, bare-headed womenare hushing the babies and pointing out to each other the beauties of the strangenew land. Not far away is the timber line which marks the course of a little creek,whose romantic banks are fringed with loveliest shrubbery. A log cabinschimney sends up a blue smoke-wreath, and a tall, angular woman is cuttingdown the brush near the entrance. A little farther on, half-a-dozen small tentsglisten in the morning sun ; the occupants have just awoke, and are crawling outto bask in the sunshine and cook their coffee over a fire of twigs. The air isfilled with joyous
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