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Then taking up his saddle-bags from the floor, he began slowly to undo the fastenings. "You are going to our house to-night, ain't you, Father Swaim?" said Jenny.
"Then I wish they wouldn't feel quite so kindly," said Ellen "that's all. Hark! what was that?" "What is that?" said somebody else; and instantly there was silence, broken again, after a minute or two, by the faint blast of a horn. "It's old Father Swaim, I reckon," said Mr. Van Brunt; "I'll go fetch him in." "Oh, yes! bring him in bring him in," was heard on all sides.
Swaim, but he han't been here this great while." "And who's he?" said Ellen. "Oh, he's a queer old chip that goes round the country on all sorts of errands; he comes along once in a while. That'll do, Johnny I believe this here tool is as sharp as I have any occasion for." "What's the use of pouring water upon the grindstone?" said Ellen; "why wouldn't it do as well dry?"
"Oh to let people know he's there, you know; did you never see Father Swaim?" "No." "La! he's the funniest old fellow! He goes round and round the country, carrying the news-papers; and we get him to bring our letters from the post-office, when there are any.
Swaim," said Alice, rising, "I don't like to leave you with these gay friends of ours; you'll stand no chance of rest with them to-night. Will you ride home with me?" Many of the party began to beg Alice would stay to supper, but she said her father would be uneasy.
The Gradual Emancipation Society of North Carolina, in their Report for 1836, signed Moses Swaim, President, and William Swaim, Secretary, says, in describing the condition of slaves in the Eastern part of that State, "The master puts the unfortunate wretches upon short allowances, scarcely sufficient for their sustenance, so that a great part of them go half naked and half starved much of the time."
Dyar, then, would seem to have been the first who combined an alphabet composed of dots and dashes. On this point, priority has been claimed by Swaim in a book that appeared at Philadelphia in 1829 under the title of The Mural Diagraph, and in a communication inserted in the Comptes Rendus of the Academic des Sciences for Nov. 27, 1865.
I wonder if it isn't the very same," said Jenny, laughing heartily: "Father Swaim thought he could manage it best, I guess." "But what was it that happened to you that time at school?" said Ellen.
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