. Outing. A GOOD PART OF THE COMMUNITY WAS PRESENT ON THE WHARF. All that lazy day we poked in andout of other little streams like the , up to other lonely wharvesjutting out from the wooded we were in Maryland, othertimes in Virginia, at all times we weremiles and miles away from railroad,telegraph, or telephone. The comingof the Baltimore boat on alternate dayswas the chief event of each little com-munity, and a good part of the com-munity was present on the wharf. When there was freight to be de-livered or received—we were enough ofa Noahs Ark before wTe reached Was
. Outing. A GOOD PART OF THE COMMUNITY WAS PRESENT ON THE WHARF. All that lazy day we poked in andout of other little streams like the , up to other lonely wharvesjutting out from the wooded we were in Maryland, othertimes in Virginia, at all times we weremiles and miles away from railroad,telegraph, or telephone. The comingof the Baltimore boat on alternate dayswas the chief event of each little com-munity, and a good part of the com-munity was present on the wharf. When there was freight to be de-livered or received—we were enough ofa Noahs Ark before wTe reached Wash-ington to have been afforded a beachingplace upon any reasonable Ararat—there was time enough to go up into thevillage, if village there were. The fewwe saw were quite alike—a few narrowstreets, a store, a school, and a churchperhaps, and many fences all blisteredwith whitewash. Whitewash is theperpetual rejuvenator of the South. Ithides impartially the scars of time andweather, and in turn it, too
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