. Historic Virginia homes and churches . WIND-IOWKH (IIUST MILL IN MATHEWS rOlNTV. THE OLD MARSHALL. THE LAST PACKET BOAT RUN ON JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL 13 RICHMOND AM) TIIK llIER JAMES itive fashion. There were the tin l)asiiis, the hi<r tin (hj)perwith the long wooden handle. I Ieel it vihratinj- in tliewater now. and the water a little muddy generally; andthere were the towels, a hig one on a roller, and tiie littleones in a pile, and all of them wet. Of all the loeks from Lynehhurg down, the Three-Mile Loeks pleased nie most. It is a pretty j)lace, asevery one will own on see
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . WIND-IOWKH (IIUST MILL IN MATHEWS rOlNTV. THE OLD MARSHALL. THE LAST PACKET BOAT RUN ON JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL 13 RICHMOND AM) TIIK llIER JAMES itive fashion. There were the tin l)asiiis, the hi<r tin (hj)perwith the long wooden handle. I Ieel it vihratinj- in tliewater now. and the water a little muddy generally; andthere were the towels, a hig one on a roller, and tiie littleones in a pile, and all of them wet. Of all the loeks from Lynehhurg down, the Three-Mile Loeks pleased nie most. It is a pretty j)lace, asevery one will own on seeing it. It was so clean and green,and white and thrifty-looking. To me it was simplybeautiful. I wanted to live there; I ought to have livedthere. I was built for a lock-keeper—have that exactmoral and mental shape. ^Vh! to own your own negro,who would do all the drudgery of opening the you would go through the form of ])uttingyour shoulder to the huge wooden levers, if that is whatthey call them, by which the gates are opened; to ownyour own negro and live
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