. Highways and byways of the South. BryansStation I found lodging in a farm-house. The dwell-ing was very different from the one in which I spent 190 Highways and Byways of the South my first night in the blue-grass country. This was afine old mansion, low and spreading, with a line ofhumble structures behind it that had formerly beenslave quarters. I recall with especial pleasure lookingfrom the front porch, after my hard days tramping, outon the grassy, generous yard set full of trees, — locusts,poplars, maples, pines, cedars, etc., — forty-two varietiesof them I was told in that one yard. A
. Highways and byways of the South. BryansStation I found lodging in a farm-house. The dwell-ing was very different from the one in which I spent 190 Highways and Byways of the South my first night in the blue-grass country. This was afine old mansion, low and spreading, with a line ofhumble structures behind it that had formerly beenslave quarters. I recall with especial pleasure lookingfrom the front porch, after my hard days tramping, outon the grassy, generous yard set full of trees, — locusts,poplars, maples, pines, cedars, etc., — forty-two varietiesof them I was told in that one yard. A squad ofblackbirds clucked and squeaked up amidst the foliage,a cat-bird mewed, and a robin was carolling, and therewere swallows coursing through the air in swift, twitter-ing flight. As I sat on the porch, whiling away themild spring evening with these sights and soundsaround, I felt that few spots on earth had been en-dowed by nature with such home charms as the Blue-grass country of Kentucky. VIII ON THE BANKS OF THE OHIO. I WAS in West Virginia at a vil-lage close besidethe great river. Theday was warm andhazy, and the distanthills faded in delicatetints of blue into thesky. Both the sceneand the weather wereconducive to loiter-ing, and I spent all ofone morning on theriver bank. Nothingimpressed me morethan the long andsteep descent from thelevel of the surrounding country to the level of thewater. I had never seen a stream bordered by alluvialbanks of such extraordinary height. Here and therepatches of bushes grew on the declivities, but for the 191 An Onion Patch 192 Highways and Byways of the South most part the surface was strewn with stones, or cov-ered with deposits of mud and sand. A line of driftrubbish showed how high the last flood had the banks had been filled nearly to thebrim, and the river must then have been a frightfultorrent, immense in depth and breadth and sinisterpower. Now, low down in the bottom of the channel,and stained a reddis
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