The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . -tality to offer it to a guest. To do so would com-monly be regarded in the light of as great a libertyas to have omitted it once would have been consid-ered an offence. The decanter is no longer foundon the sideboard in the home; the barrel is notstored in the cellar. Some features of the old Kentucky market-placehave disappeared. The war and the prostration ofthe South destroyed that as a market for certainkinds of stock, the raising and sales of which havein consequence declined. Railways have touchedthe eastern parts of the
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . -tality to offer it to a guest. To do so would com-monly be regarded in the light of as great a libertyas to have omitted it once would have been consid-ered an offence. The decanter is no longer foundon the sideboard in the home; the barrel is notstored in the cellar. Some features of the old Kentucky market-placehave disappeared. The war and the prostration ofthe South destroyed that as a market for certainkinds of stock, the raising and sales of which havein consequence declined. Railways have touchedthe eastern parts of the State, and broken up thedistant toilsome traffic with the steamboat wagonsof the mountaineers. No longer is the day the gen-eral buying day for the circumjacent country asformerly, when the farmers, having great householdsof slaves, sent in their wagons and bought on twelvemonths credit, knowing it would be twenty-fourmonths if they desired. The doctors, too, havenearly vanished from the street corners, though onthe highway one may still happen upon the peddler. LORDS OF THE SOIL. COUNTY COURT DAY IN KENTUCKY 115 with his pack, and in the midst of an eager throngstill may meet the swaying, sightless old fiddler,singing to ears that never tire gay ditties in acracked and melancholy tone. Through all changes one feature has goes back to the most ancient days of local his-tory. The Kentuckian will come to county courtto swap horses; it is in the blood. In one smalltown may be seen fifty or a hundred countrymenassembled during the afternoon in a back street toengage in this delightful recreation. Each rides orleads his worst, most objectionable beast; of these,however fair-seeming, none is above suspicion. Itis the potters field, the lazar-house, the beggardom,of horse-flesh. The stiff and aged bondsman of theglebe and plough looks out of one filmy eye uponthe hopeless wreck of the fleet roadster, and thepoor macerated carcass that in days gone by boreits thankless burd
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