. Highways and byways of the South. scoat ready for instant use when the occasion became so absorbed that he was reluctant to gofarther with me, and I left him behind. His excusefor staying was that he did not feel well. He thoughtthe weather was unusually warm for the month ofMay. When the sun is so hot this time of year,said he, it gives you the spring fever — the * hardlyable On my way back I stopped at a schoolhouse forcolored children. It was decidedly better than theaverage of buildings devoted to negro child education,and was quite presentable, though some of the win
. Highways and byways of the South. scoat ready for instant use when the occasion became so absorbed that he was reluctant to gofarther with me, and I left him behind. His excusefor staying was that he did not feel well. He thoughtthe weather was unusually warm for the month ofMay. When the sun is so hot this time of year,said he, it gives you the spring fever — the * hardlyable On my way back I stopped at a schoolhouse forcolored children. It was decidedly better than theaverage of buildings devoted to negro child education,and was quite presentable, though some of the window-panes were broken and the holes stopped with papersand rags. The interior was fairly good, too; the seatswere modern, and on the walls were a number of mapsand unframed pictures. The master was an Intelligent John Browns Town 249 and well-educated young man, and I thought he wasdoing excellent work. He had a kindly way with thechildren, and yet I noticed a savage-looking straphanging conveniently near his desk. During recita-. A Question 250 Highways and Byways of the South tlons the children ordinarily remained in their seatsand rose when they were called on by the master; butfor spelling they stood in a straggling semicircle aroundthe platform. They did a good deal of wriggling dur-ing the spelling, even turned their backs to the teacher,or rested one foot on the platform, or retired a fewpaces and leaned against a desk; and one boy wentclear to the rear of the room and spit out of the doorand leisurely returned. But the children were amiableand bright, and they acquitted themselves on the wholevery creditably. The great event in the history of Harpers Ferrywas John Browns raid, in the autumn of 1859. Everyone in town knows the story of it, and many person-ally experienced its terror. A monument near therailway station marks the place where formerly wasJohn Browns Fort, as the small brick fire-enginehouse came to be called in which he made his finaldefence. The raid was
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