. Highways and byways of the South. nvenient to accept aday or two later, and I shared the family dinner, pay-ment for which was absolutely refused. We dontnever charge nothing to nobody, said my dinner was an excellent one of the humbler South-ern type and I enjoyed it, save that the milk andbutter tasted too emphatically of the wild onions thatgrew on the cows grazing ground. I asked my entertainers if they ever picked up relicson the battle-field, and one of the boys brought fortha pan full of bullets, brass buttons, and other the plough turned them out, someti
. Highways and byways of the South. nvenient to accept aday or two later, and I shared the family dinner, pay-ment for which was absolutely refused. We dontnever charge nothing to nobody, said my dinner was an excellent one of the humbler South-ern type and I enjoyed it, save that the milk andbutter tasted too emphatically of the wild onions thatgrew on the cows grazing ground. I asked my entertainers if they ever picked up relicson the battle-field, and one of the boys brought fortha pan full of bullets, brass buttons, and other the plough turned them out, sometimes thefield streams formed by heavy rains washed them intosight. Certain bullets of peculiar shape they said werepoisoned, but they could give me no authority forthis belief. They occasionally found bones, and theytold me that in a brier patch in one of the fields wasquite a pile of them thrown together around a stake. My hostess had been a little girl in war days. We THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTUF^ LENOX ANDTILDEN 3*^, •: ^^SM:^ mt> IL,. A Pitcher of Milk The Battle-field of Bull Run 237 lived at Thoroughfare Gap, she said, and the sol-diers was goin back and forth there all the time. Wewas very well treated usually, but I reckon we gotalong better than most. The troubles that people tellabout was mainly owing to the fact that the lawswant very well enforced and everybody got to sellinwhiskey. So it was easy for the soldiers to get drunk,and then you wouldnt know what theyd do. For along time we had some Union troops camped jus out-side my mothers fence. We was for the South, butthey never done us no harm, and often theyd comein and talk very friendly with mother, and with father,too, who was an invalid and couldnt get around much. We had four or five cows, and the cows had tofeed right on the soldiers camping-ground. I used togo after the cows every night, and a good many timesthe soldiers would help me get em. I was a little shyof the soldiers at first
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