Author : Julian Ralph
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis Dixie; Or, Southern Scenes and Sketches by : Julian Ralph
Download or read book Dixie; Or, Southern Scenes and Sketches written by Julian Ralph. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... VIII WHERE TIME HAS SLUMBERED ' Mkhby Mrs. Cap'n will have one," or, "You'd better go and see Mrs. Cap'n," or, "If there's any sich thing around, mebbe Mrs. Cap'n 'll have it." These things were so often said to the hunter from New York, who was down in West Virginia partly for deer, and largely for relics of a by-gone era, that he determined to see "Mrs. Cap'n," and to know more about her. There seemed to be little to know, and that was told readily in answer to his questions, for it was evident that she was the most conspicuous woman on the mountain on whic h she lived. All the mountain folk knew her or knew about her, but at the same time it became clear to the stranger from New York that there was some little mystery--something kept back. It was said of her that she was "more forehanded " than most women, that she was very industrious, that she was proud, and " kep' her head well up," and that she had been a widow through the best part of her life--a widow so stricken by her bereavement that no man had since been able to make any impression upon her affections, though the best men in that section had tried. That in itself was peculiar enough to make her conspicuous. Freely as this was told, it was often accompanied by a manner that led the stranger to fancy there was more to learn. His failure to break through this reserve whetted his curiosity, and one day he went straight to the woman herself in her cabin. The cabin, externally, was very like all the rest--a little log house with a stone chimney projecting from one end, with a roof made of those large shingles that they call "clapboards" down there, with a row of three small window-panes set id the end opposite the chimney for an extra window, in addition to the real window that...