. Highways and byways of the South. r-growth of palmetto scrub. After leaving Jacksonville, where I had disembarked,I first of all visited St. Augustine, and saw its ancientfort and massive city gateway. The fort is of genuinemediaeval type, the only one of its kind in gray, weatherworn stones proclaim its great age, therooms are satisfactorily gloomy and dungeon-like, andyou can trace the course of the old moat round the fort and the gateway date back to the timewhen St. Augustine was a Spanish walled town. Theplace itself has one or two curious narrow thorough-fares an
. Highways and byways of the South. r-growth of palmetto scrub. After leaving Jacksonville, where I had disembarked,I first of all visited St. Augustine, and saw its ancientfort and massive city gateway. The fort is of genuinemediaeval type, the only one of its kind in gray, weatherworn stones proclaim its great age, therooms are satisfactorily gloomy and dungeon-like, andyou can trace the course of the old moat round the fort and the gateway date back to the timewhen St. Augustine was a Spanish walled town. Theplace itself has one or two curious narrow thorough-fares and odd survivals of bygone architecture, but itsprevailing characteristics are those of a fashionablepleasure resort. All the open fields on the outskirtshave been taken possession of by the , when I had stopped to watch a game, an oldcolored man came along and leaned over the picketfence near me. Spring on the Florida Coast 3 I want to see what they gwine do, he said. Good gracious alive! see whar that tall man sen. Ancient Spanish Gateway at St. Augustine that thar liT ball. Well, I do say ! Now he gwinesee if he cn find it. Yes, sah, when they done knock 4 Highways and Byways of the South the ball once they foller it an knocks it some look at that game as much as one hundred time, anI never make out whar de fun come in. I ain neverplay it myself, sah ; an yet I got no objection to itif thar ain no betting. That my remonstrance tocairds. If yo play cairds, yore boun to bet, ansooner or later yore boun to run up against one othose yere men what can play any caird they wants to,an then yo lose your money. Cairds ain a goodthing — no, sah — an I lets em alone. But Ive seencairds played. Ive been up all night mixin the drinksfor white gemmen, an seein em play vintil six oreight oclock in the mornin — yes, sah ! From St. Augustine I journeyed down the coast asfar as Miami, and in all this long distance the portionI enjoyed most was where the railway skir
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