Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . to pay their taxes with this money, and so itfound its way back again to Lord Baltimore. Many laws were passed to make people grow lesstobacco, but with little good result. As the western partof the State was opened up, however, more corn, wheat andgrain was grown, and the evil gradually remedied itself. On a bright fallmorning, more than ahundred years ago, alittle boy was watch-ing a ship beingloaded with some ofthis tobacco. Hisname was CarrollPaca. He lived in alarge brick manorhouse on a place called Evelinton in St. Marys was
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . to pay their taxes with this money, and so itfound its way back again to Lord Baltimore. Many laws were passed to make people grow lesstobacco, but with little good result. As the western partof the State was opened up, however, more corn, wheat andgrain was grown, and the evil gradually remedied itself. On a bright fallmorning, more than ahundred years ago, alittle boy was watch-ing a ship beingloaded with some ofthis tobacco. Hisname was CarrollPaca. He lived in alarge brick manorhouse on a place called Evelinton in St. Marys was near the Patuxent river. He knew the ship was lying at his fathers landing, orwharf, down at the river. So he had gotten up early,before his father and mother were astir, to watch the menat work. The negro slaves fitted axles and shafts to thelarge hogsheads full of tobacco. Then, singing andshouting, they rolled the hogsheads down a rough narrow^rolling road, as it was called, to the water-side. Carroll watched them at work until he began to feel. TOBACCO HOGSHEAD, READY FOR ROLLING III MARYLAND hungry. Then he made his way back to the house andinto the kitchen. At the end of the kitchen was a greatbrick fire-place. Here a big wood fire was burning andbreakfast was cooking. Across the kitchen fire-place stretched a bar of wood or
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