. Through swamp and glade : a tale of the Seminole war. dded to others when she was not brother acted as his own overseer, so there wereno whites on the plantation to aid her. She alonemust order this exodus, and beneath its responsi-bilities she found herself well-nigh helpless. At length, in despair, and having wasted most ofthe morning in useless expostulations, she enteredthe heavy, old-fashioned coach, with Letty the maid,and gave Primus the order to set forth. As the carriage passed the quarters, there was agreat cry of: Don yo leab us, Missy Anstice ! Don yo gwayan leab us t
. Through swamp and glade : a tale of the Seminole war. dded to others when she was not brother acted as his own overseer, so there wereno whites on the plantation to aid her. She alonemust order this exodus, and beneath its responsi-bilities she found herself well-nigh helpless. At length, in despair, and having wasted most ofthe morning in useless expostulations, she enteredthe heavy, old-fashioned coach, with Letty the maid,and gave Primus the order to set forth. As the carriage passed the quarters, there was agreat cry of: Don yo leab us, Missy Anstice ! Don yo gwayan leab us to de Injins ! Wese a comin. So Primus was ordered to drive slowly, and underother circumstances the English girl would have beenvastly amused at the motley procession that beganto straggle along behind her ; but the danger Avastoo imminent and too great to admit of any thoughtssave those of anxiety and fear. An hour or more passed without incident. Thesun beat down fiercely from an unclouded sky, andthe shadows of the tall pines seemed to nestle close. e *e>c e a c ? SHAKESPEARE IN THE FOREST 175 to the brown trunks in an effort to escape his scorch-ing rays. A sound of locusts filled the air. Thegrateful sea-breeze that would steal inland an hourlater was still afar off, and but for the urgency oftheir flight, the slow-moving cavalcade would haverested until it came. The tongues of the cattle hungfrom their mouths, and a cloud of dust envelopedthem. The heads of horses and mules were stretchedstraight out, and their ears drooped. Old Primusnodded on the carriage seat. Letty was fast asleep,and even her young mistress started from an occa-sional doze. Unobserved by a single eye in all that wearythrong, another cloud of dust, similar to that hangingabove and about them, rose in their rear. It ap-proached rapidly, until it was so close that the cloudsmingled. Then from out the gray canopy burst awhirlwind of yells, shots, galloping horses, and hu-man forms with wildly waving a
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