Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . I .4 ^1 ^\% %A .^^.N. THE DROVE THE WARM SPRINGS. 133 Large rolls of fat about his shoulders clung, * And from his neck the double dewlap hung, while liis liorns sprung from his curling forehead in taperinglength, a full cloth-yard each one. What horns! What nobledrinking-cups they would have made. One of them would holdenough to fuddle a Thracian. The negro remarked Crayons ad-miring glances, and, as he touched his hat, the dull face lighted upwith an expression: Am not I on
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . I .4 ^1 ^\% %A .^^.N. THE DROVE THE WARM SPRINGS. 133 Large rolls of fat about his shoulders clung, * And from his neck the double dewlap hung, while liis liorns sprung from his curling forehead in taperinglength, a full cloth-yard each one. What horns! What nobledrinking-cups they would have made. One of them would holdenough to fuddle a Thracian. The negro remarked Crayons ad-miring glances, and, as he touched his hat, the dull face lighted upwith an expression: Am not I one of the chosen—I, who serveso magnificent a beast ? Night and morning I curry him, andwalk all day in his presence. He and I are the observed and en-vied of all. Tears to me, said Mice, dat fool nigger is proudto be a leadin of dat big beef Following this leader came a train of thirty or forty others,scarcely inferior in size or appearance; and when the carriage,winding slowly through this formidable-looking company, turnedthe angle of rock, the road was visible in its windings for a mileor more, alive with cattle and bristling with
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