. Highways and byways of the South. ering where he had better dig the grave. He soonselected a spot, and was not long in making a shallowtrench in the sandy earth. Then he put in the coffin,shovelled back the sand, set up the headboard with itspencilled lettering, and at the foot of the grave stuckin a stick he picked up near by. That done, he plod-ded off toward the town, and the melancholy littlefuneral was ended. Off on another road, well away from the village, isa colored folks camp-meeting ground. It is on ahill-slope with a thin growth of woods round about,and not even a negro house in s
. Highways and byways of the South. ering where he had better dig the grave. He soonselected a spot, and was not long in making a shallowtrench in the sandy earth. Then he put in the coffin,shovelled back the sand, set up the headboard with itspencilled lettering, and at the foot of the grave stuckin a stick he picked up near by. That done, he plod-ded off toward the town, and the melancholy littlefuneral was ended. Off on another road, well away from the village, isa colored folks camp-meeting ground. It is on ahill-slope with a thin growth of woods round about,and not even a negro house in sight. Here stands agreat, low, wide-spreading shed of a building, open onall sides. The seats for the worshippers are roughplanks, some of them a sawmill product, and othershewed out with axes, and very thick and pulpit platform and furnishings were scarcely lessrude. Just outside the building at the rear was whatlooked like a sacrificial altar. It was a slight platformof short boards supported on four stakes and covered.
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