Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . school of English painters. When about halfway uj) the mount-ain, the girls, who had walked in advance, were seen suddenly toturn and fly with all speed toward the slow-toiling heavens! let us in—let us in quick!What now? Whafs the matter? Have you encounteredsome untimely snake or frost-bitten lizard ? To Crayons inquiry they vouchsafed no reply, but in breathlesshaste bundled into the vehicle, and, ere they had fairly disposedthemselves in their seats, the quest
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . school of English painters. When about halfway uj) the mount-ain, the girls, who had walked in advance, were seen suddenly toturn and fly with all speed toward the slow-toiling heavens! let us in—let us in quick!What now? Whafs the matter? Have you encounteredsome untimely snake or frost-bitten lizard ? To Crayons inquiry they vouchsafed no reply, but in breathlesshaste bundled into the vehicle, and, ere they had fairly disposedthemselves in their seats, the question was answered from anotherquarter. Where the road swept in a bold curve around the base 132 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. of a cliff, now advanced with slow and stately tread, in all thepomp of bovine majesty, the vanguard of one of those monstrousherds of cattle wending their way from the rich pastures of Mon-roe and Greenbrier to the eastward. First came a stout negro,with stupid face and loutish step, leading an ox, whose sublimeproportions and majestic port might have served as a disguise forJove I .4 ^1 ^\% %A .^^.N
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