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I heard talk about killin' and so on, but I didn't know no thin' about it. "My mother was the last slave to get off the plantation. She travelled across the plantation all night with us children. It was pouring rain. The white folks surrounded her and took away us children, and gave her so many minutes to get off the plantation. We never saw her again. She died away from us.
A few words more on the subject passed between the lady of the plantation and the youth, and then the talk shifted back to Jack's past. "Some day I am going to find out who I am." said the boy. "There must be some way to do this." "Are you then so anxious to leave me, Jack?" asked Mrs. Ruthven, and the tears sprang into her eyes.
It was likely that the doctor would not show himself in the neighborhood for some time to come, probably not until the Federal troops had departed. "I am going to talk to my aunt of this," said St. John suddenly, and, without another word to Jack, turned his steps toward the plantation home. St. John found his aunt too busy to spend much time talking about Jack's past and Dr.
Another uniform that attracted much, though not so favorable, attention was that of the Third New Jersey Cavalry, or First New Jersey Hussars, as they preferred to call themselves. The designer of the uniform must have had an interest in a curcuma plantation, or else he was a fanatical Orangeman. Each uniform would furnish occasion enough for a dozen New York riots on the 12th of July.
Finally, I may remind the reader of the Tamul proverb which declares that "With plenty of manure even an idiot may be a successful agriculturist," and may add to it the English adage, which says to the farmer, "Never get into debt, but if you do, let it be for manure." The work of bringing round an old and neglected plantation is by no means an easy one.
Beyond the plantation the flagged road stretched flat and grey, then bent in a deep curve, and on the wider sweep of the curve a row of tall, slender trees stood up like a screen. It would be round the turn of the road under the trees that the Germans would come when they came.
We then, likewise, settled colonies in America, which was become the great scene of European ambition; for, seeing with what treasures the Spaniards were annually enriched from Mexico and Peru, every nation imagined, that an American conquest, or plantation, would certainly fill the mother country with gold and silver.
Here she had supported herself by taking in washing and ironing. This had been her special work on the plantation where she had been born and brought up, and she was therefore quite proficient in it. She found no difficulty in obtaining work enough to satisfy the moderate wants of herself and little Pomp.
When the carriage drive which wound through the plantation had been passed the house burst abruptly into view a big, rambling building of uncompromising ugliness. Its architecture was remarkable. The impression which it conveyed was that the original builder had been prevented by lack of money from carrying out his original intention of erecting a fine symmetrical house.
That little rencontre took my nerve away, and I shot very badly at the next plantation, so badly I missed two birds that I was almost inclined to give up and go home; but then lunch came in a marquee and its luxury and the delightful wine restored me. I shot well again all the afternoon.
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