CHAPTER XVII.

A MORAL POINTED.

Experiments in Metaphysics--An Anecdote Dealing with the Characteristics of some People--Another--Peculiarities of the Caucasian--Ditto of the African--An "Awakening" among the Children of the New Abrahamic Covenant--"Brudder Jones's Preechin'"--What it Wrought--The Pale-Faced Settlers in Distress--An "Artifice" of Retrenchment--Eloquent Discourse--Nineteenthly, and what followed-- K. K. K. _redivivus_--"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching, etc."--A Break for Tall Timber 161