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The rest will be easy." "This faith of youth is very wonderful," said Seth. "Not more remarkable than your forebodings," Barrington returned. "You have not always been so quick to talk of danger." "Maybe it's the different air. I prefer the breeze that comes off Chesapeake Bay to that of these hills, and there's a devil of depression in this cockloft, it seems to me." "Come out of it, then.
"The number of negroes upon the place," wrote Robinson, "is just about 700, occupying 84 double frame houses, each containing two tenements of three rooms to a family besides the cockloft.... There are two common hospitals and a 'lying-in hospital, and a very neat, commodious church, which is well filled every Sabbath.... Now the owner of all this property lives in a very humble cottage, embowered in dense shrubbery and making no show.... He and his family are as plain and unostentatious in their manners as the house they live in.... Nearly all the land has been reclaimed and the buildings, except the house, erected new within the twenty years that Governor Aiken has owned the island.
I found the old man standing on the floor by the cockloft steps weeping; and after I had spoken "The peace of God," I asked him first of all whether he really believed that his little Mary had been bewitched by means of the roll which my child had given her? He said, "Yes!"
In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two. Closets and pantries there are none, for they would only furnish good harborage for woods-rats and other vermin. Everything must be in sight and accessible to the housewife's little sedge broom. Linen and small articles of apparel are stored in a chest or a cheap little tin trunk or two.
The interchange of gifts and tokens around the Christmas tree follows most appropriately, and the Christmas feast is marked by profuse hospitality and keen enjoyment unmarred by riot or excess. Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
"And if we go round?" commented Delia, questioningly. "We go straight up this road until we come to a winding path called the Gully, then down to the river, where we shall find Herbert's, thence down the river to Cockloft Hall. But we will return by the upper railroad, as we shall be near that."
"As there are no stores, we should have to start at the foundation of things." "I have a loaf of bread, and some cold mutton, and eggs, I think, and tea and coffee. Come, you had better accept my hospitality." "I must be home in the early evening," remarked Doctor Joe. "And Hanny's not to stay out after dark," appended Ben. "We are going down to Cockloft Hall," explained Mr. Whitney.
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft. Next to a ghost, for which the environment was too matter-of-fact, that was the thing for an alley to have.
He sat down in her little room, and she went and brought the ragged little boy and girl, saying she was very poor, and couldn't afford to dress them better; for she had been careful to hide the well-dressed little boy and girl in a cockloft.
Oh, dear! oh, dear! I am sore all over!" "Help!" cried Professor Gunn. The boys on the floor below the Cockloft were out by this time, and they were enjoying the spectacle quite as much as the plebes above. Frank had rushed into his room, and he came forth with a bag that contained something that moved and snarled.
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