. Recollections of Auton House .. . AUTON NURSERY. 31 wended its way from all quarters. The trundle-bed gave up itslittle citizens. The front side and middle of the ark were allagog, the youthful crew climbing over the jaded anatomy of Debrah,and nestling down around the Johnny-cake owner with eager sweet-bread or fillet of later years was ever so sweet as that lit-tle bit of cold, indigestible compound doled out to us on those darkand early mornings, as we sat, like savages, in our night-gowns,crouched around our Johnny-cake This primitive breakfast fitted us for an arduous jo
. Recollections of Auton House .. . AUTON NURSERY. 31 wended its way from all quarters. The trundle-bed gave up itslittle citizens. The front side and middle of the ark were allagog, the youthful crew climbing over the jaded anatomy of Debrah,and nestling down around the Johnny-cake owner with eager sweet-bread or fillet of later years was ever so sweet as that lit-tle bit of cold, indigestible compound doled out to us on those darkand early mornings, as we sat, like savages, in our night-gowns,crouched around our Johnny-cake This primitive breakfast fitted us for an arduous journey overthe Andes, which we proceeded to do at once. There was a pict-ure in one of our nursery books representing a long train of mules,laden with merchandise, toiling over the difficult passes of the An-des, and carrying to tide-water the produce of the country. Thisold wood-cut filled our youthful imaginations with a desire to act itout. 32 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. The girls and boys, with Ben Jackson, the negro, on hands andknees, in night-gowns and night-drawers, the oldest and biggestfirst, and then the little ones following on, with the black boy fill-ing up the rear, would start from the southwest bed-post of the bigbed, commencing at the top of the bolster on our trip over themountains. Plunging under the bed-clothes we wriggled our way,one after the other, down to the bottom of the bed. Then wepulled away the ends of the blankets and the sheets down there,and wormed ourselves out from under these to the bottom-endsof
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