. The Southern States. dey call him nothin butLittle Mice, and dat been so long deydone forgot his oder name, if he ever hadany. And so, in the revarnished carriage,drawn by the roan and the sorrel, withthe gigantic Little Mice for a driver,they started outâPorte Crayon and histhree cousins, on the morning of the 8thof October, 1853, when Porte declareda new era is about to commence in thehistory of women. The carriage wasscarce driven up to the door when allthree are ready cap-a-pie tojump into it! I thought thelast wonder was achieved whenthey got all their baggage intoone trunk and two carp
. The Southern States. dey call him nothin butLittle Mice, and dat been so long deydone forgot his oder name, if he ever hadany. And so, in the revarnished carriage,drawn by the roan and the sorrel, withthe gigantic Little Mice for a driver,they started outâPorte Crayon and histhree cousins, on the morning of the 8thof October, 1853, when Porte declareda new era is about to commence in thehistory of women. The carriage wasscarce driven up to the door when allthree are ready cap-a-pie tojump into it! I thought thelast wonder was achieved whenthey got all their baggage intoone trunk and two carpet bags!Think of that, ye fashionablewomen of 1893âone trunk andtwo carpet bags holding thegarments of three young ladiesw ho doubtless had as manyclothes, as clothes were countedin that day, as you will havewhen you start to the WorldsFair! The first object of interest\ isited by Porte Crayons partywas Weyers Cave, on the Valley! division of theNorfolk & Western Railway. PICTURESQUE VIRGINIA. 229. The illustra-tions in thefirst story otthe series aremade up al-most entirelyof interiorcavern on toStaunton,whose publicinstitutionsreceived agrand freeadvertise-ment in i%;--peri,io\: Feb-ruary, eying-westward thisunique partyspent a nightat AugustaSprings, nowsimply the summer home of a rich Northern gende-man, and, strange to say, all mentionof Elliotts Knob, next to Salt PondMountain the highest in Virginia, isomitted. This was no doubt due to thefact that they passed so close to it thatthey did not see it. It may, however,be seen from the left-hand windows,going west, on the Chesapeake & Ohiotrains between the stations called BuffaloGap and Ferrol, a half hours ride westof Staunton. Leaving Porte Crayon for a while,(who went thence to the Bath Alum,the Hot and the Warm Springs, of allthree of which resorts sketches were lyadeby Ported it is worth while to considerthe contrast between the hardships ofthe trip as made by even the wealthiestin
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