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Midnight Consultation Plans Developed Money Distributed Compagnons du Voyage A Dismal Night Sheltered from the Storm Southern Unionist Arrested by Federal Soldiers Beyond the Lines Panic Caused by Negroes Method of Avoiding Suspicion Continuous Rain Behind Time Hunting Human Beings with Bloodhounds The Cumberland Mountains Rain again.
We were detained a day at Fort William, repairing canoes, arranging crews, &c., and on the 30th, I took leave of my excellent compagnons de voyage with sincere regret.
A line of a song came down, a song sung in a strange quavering voice. It was the catch I had heard the night before: "Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard, Compagnons de la Marjolaine e!" It was true. The company came late indeed too late by forty years. . . . To adopt the opening words of a more famous tale, "The truth of this strange matter is what the world has long been looking for."
What is more, the whole fraternity professes doctrines which, if unfolded never so little, are both true enough and mysterious enough to electrify all the adepts with patriotism; and the compagnons are so attached to their rules, that there have been bloody battles between different fraternities on a question of principle.
"He used to wake me in the mornings coming battering at my door, and singing, `Come awake thee, awake thee, my merry Swiss lass! and when we were learning French fables from Miss Minnitt, we used to take arms, Bridgie and I, and walk up and down before him reciting, `Deux compagnons presse d'argent! It didn't make any difference whether he had the money or not he always gave it to us.
A little before midnight, my two New York compagnons du voyage and myself took our seats in the mail for Montgomery, on the Alabama river. We found ourselves the sole occupants of the vehicle, and were congratulating each other on the chance, when we heard directions given to the driver to halt at Sodom, for the purpose of taking up a gentleman and his lady, Anglice, a gambler and his mistress.
Through the half open door of the little stuffy office where I was conducted I could see a white-aproned doctor and a nurse properly bandaging my boy. When my compagnons de route had departed, I walked out into the ward and straight up to the bedside. "Is there any hope?" "Not one chance in a million! Would to heaven we had the right to spare them such suffering!
Pines, willows, cotton-wood, two kinds of hickory, water-oak, live-oak, sweet-gum, magnolia, the red and white bay-tree, a few red cedars, and haw-bushes, with many species not known to me, made up a rich wall of verdure on either side, as I sped along with a light heart to Columbus, where my compagnons de voyage were to meet me. Wood-ducks and egrets, in small flocks, inhabited the forest.
A la fin de la seconde journée je fus saisi d'une fièvre ardente, si forte qu'il me fut impossible d'aller plus loin. Mes quatre compagnons, bien désolés de mon accident, me firent monter un âne, et me recommandèrent
The Minnesota again Souvenirs of Lord and Lady Dufferin From Winnipeg by Red River Compagnons du Voyage A Model Farm "Bees" Manitoba a good Field for Emigrants Changes at Fisher's Landing A Mild Excitement for Sundays Racing with Prairie Fires Glyndon Humours of a Pullman Sleeping Car Lichfield.
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