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Show lG~ \Yilh yery br ad should rs and brown fac :, and long black hair an<l black ye. . Th y dres ed in white 1in n fro1n head to foot, like the old g ntlc1nan, and wore broad Panama hats. Then th \re \Va l\li s Charlott , :he \ra. t w nty-:fivc, and tall ancl proud and gran(l, but a goo<l as .·hC' could be, when he \varn't stirrc<l up; but when she wa:,. h had a look that would 1nake yon wilt in your tracks, like h \r fat her. Sh wa:-; beau-tiful. ~ 10 wa her i ter, :\Ii. s Sophia, but it was a cliffi rent kind. ~h was gent.l and we t, like a dove, and ·he was only tw nty. Each per. on had their own nigger to \rait on the1n - Buck, too. :\Iy nig()'er had a mon trou · easy time, becaus I warn't n ed to having anybody do anything for 1nc, but J~uck\; was on the jtunp most of the time. This was all there was of the fa1nily, no\v; but there u ·eel to be 1nore- thrce sons; they got killed; and E1nn1 line that died. The olcl gentlen1an owned a lot of fanns, and ov r a hun(lred niggeL . Son1ctitnes a stack of people would come there, hor ehack, from t n or :fifteen mile around, and tay five or six days, a.nd have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods, day-ti1nes, and balls at the house, night.. These people was mo.tly kin-folks of the family. The 1ncn brought their guns with then1. It wa. a handsom lot of quality, I tell you. Ther was another clan of ari tocracy around there- five or six families-1nostly of the name of Rhepherdson. They was as high-toned, and well born, and rich and grand, as the tribe of C:frangerfon.ls. The Shepherd ·on and the GrangerfordN n ed the .. arne .teamboat landing, which was about two mile above our hous ; so sometime when I went up there with a lot of our folic I U"'ed to see a lot of the , 1hepherd.·ons there, on their fine horses. ARL 'TOCRACl-. . ( )n day Bnck and 1110 wa. aw.ay 1ng, auJ h 'arcl a horst\ cotn in g. 'y Buck ·ays: J tunp for th wo cl f ., out in ib woods, huntwas ro,.,.i ng the rt ad. '" (luic k ! ''r don it, nncl th n p(} J>ecl down 1h<' ,,. 1 1 L <X,. t 1rongh thl· / - -- I '• -- - ,..._, ..... - r - ( I i -= \ Yo l ' ·:"' (,' 11 A lt~EY llBPILJ~HDHO:-i. 1<'av ·• Prett·y · ·oc >n a P1 n d1'd young 1nan COllH' oallopjnor down the road s ttina hi.· hor easy an-l 1 1-· 1 . 1~ . h . · u o '"1ng 1 ... e a . old1 r. II_ had lu .. gun aero s his I)Ommel • I 11 ac1 .e rn 1t 1•n 1 b \1r or . lt ''a young Ifarney h pherd ·on I l1card B J·, ff • c UC '" : O'UH 0' 0 at Iny ear, and Ifarney· . hat tumbled off froin his he~cl. Ile li 2 |