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IT was April, 1876, and Deacon Atwood and Captain Black were riding along the sandy highway in the sparsely settled vicinity of Bean Island, in the State of South Carolina.
UNDER cover of the morning fog Captain Doc descended from the verandah of the Postmaster’s residence. As he slid down a pillar of the open piazza of the lower story, a black fac...
10. CHAPTER X.Clo.—Now, now; I have not winked since I saw these sights; the men are not yet cold under water, nor the bear half dined on the gentleman; he’s at it now.
1. CHAPTER I.IT was April, 1876, and Deacon Atwood and Captain Black were riding along the sandy highway in the sparsely settled vicinity of Bean Island, in the State of South Carolina.
6. CHAPTER VI.“Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Fear him not, Cæsar, he’s not dangerous; He is a noble Roman and well given.”
7. CHAPTER VII.A SMALL, dark man, with a lithe form and sparkling eyes, had been busy preparing Justice Rives’s office for the expected court, as he had been previously directed, and was unawa...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Auntie was the model-housekeeper of the neighborhood, (not a high compliment, some readers might think, could they see many of the homes there, where the women spend most of the...
2. CHAPTER II.“Bad, Mr. Elly, bad!” replied Uncle Jesse, as he seated himself, and took from his hat a huge red cotton pocket-handkerchief, with which he proceeded with great deliberation to...
11. CHAPTER XI.THE “dead-ring,” as has been said, was on Market street, and quite near the Post Master’s residence, which occupied the corner and stood flush with both Market and Cook streets....
3. CHAPTER III.ON an insignificant little village built on a narrow flat beside the Savannah river, the sun had been pouring his red hot rays all day, with even greater intensity than was usua...
13. CHAPTER XIII.If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, And live with Richard from the reach of hell. Go, hie thee from this slaughter-house Lest thou increase the number of the dead.”...
4. CHAPTER IV.SO trivial a quarrel as that narrated in the closing part of our last chapter, had it occurred elsewhere than in a community in which the inhabitants had so recently sustained t...
5. CHAPTER V.THE 8th of July, 1876, was an exceedingly hot day, and few white residents of the State of South Carolina ventured out of doors in the hotter hours, though, as is usual, the col...
9. CHAPTER IX.UNCLE JESSE, as the reader is by this time aware, was a man of influence among his neighbors, few of whom, of either race, were capable of such just and comprehensive views of t...