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They keep open house the year around for all, and to all who will, give whatever they have learned of the art of life. They are neighbors and comrades, learners as well as teachers. It would be hard to find on the globe a group of people who need more this sort of democratic hand-to-hand contact than those Miss Furman describes, or a group with whom it is a greater satisfaction to establish it.
"Well, I don't; and neither did the folks who had cabins taken and who threw them up last week when they heard how the San Pietro went down on this same route. We're five plumb idiots that's what we are five crazy lunatics! I'd never have come a step, not with wild horses dragging me if it hadn't been for Jim Furman being pretty near popeyed, looking for a chance to cut me out and sail.
F. M. GOULD, 3d R. I. Battery, June 1, 1863; Resigned, June 8, 1864. ASA CHILD, 8th Me., Aug. 7, 1863; First Lt, Sept., 1865. JEROME T. FURMAN, 52d Pa., Aug. 30, 1863; Killed at Walhalla, S. C., Aug. 26, 1865. JOHN W. SELVAGE, 48th N. Y., Sept 10, 1863; First Lt. 36th U. S. C. T., March, 1865. NELSON S. WHITE, Dec. 22, 1863; First Lt, Sept., 1865.
No. 28, New Levee, New Orleans, in the "Bee", March 22, 1837. "Absconded, the mulatto boy Tom, his fingers scarred on his right hand, and has a scar on his right cheek" Mr. John W. Walton, Greensboro, Ala. in the "Alabama Beacon", Dec. 13, 1838. "Ranaway my black boy Frazier, with a scar below and one above his right ear." Mr. R. Furman, Charleston, S.C. in the "Charleston Mercury" Jan. 12, 1839.
The winter of my discontent, however, was somewhat cheered by games of football and baseball in the vacant lots on the heights above Wall Street Ferry, and by fierce battles and single combats with the tribes of 'Micks' who inhabited the regions of Furman Street and Atlantic Avenue.
He carried it to the porch, where Pixy ran quickly and drank as if he was afraid the basin would be taken away from him. "Now, boys, I must go on home," said Mr. Furman as he shook hands with them. "Good-bye! Remember me to your fathers, and take good care of Pixy." The moment the carriage was out of sight the boys turned to their own needs.
All of the other members of the class were sending home for their suits or for the money with which to get them, but I knew that my aunt was not able to help me, so I was at a loss to know where I should get mine. Finally, I decided to write to Mr. R. O. Simpson of Furman, Alabama, the man on whose plantation I was reared, and ask him to loan me fifteen dollars.
"This is the only place you can boss!" retorted Cis, turning wild, defiant eyes upon him. "A crippled old man, and a couple of young folks! But you bet you mind Furman!" "A-a-a-a-a-ah!" The cry was wrung from Johnnie. For with another loud laugh, Big Tom had dropped the scout hat upon the flames. "Coward!" charged the girl, again writhing in her ropes. "Low, mean coward!"
Furman, "the true friend of our poor dependent dumb creatures attends to their wants first; the really kind master will not let them wait while he satisfies his own hunger and thirst." Fritz was ashamed of his treatment of Pixy, and was glad to pour some of the water into a basin which the innkeeper reached to him.
Furman paid for all, he would not forget to give Peter something for waiting upon us. Come on." Had they opened their hearts to give the waiting Peter a few pennies, it would have saved them much anxiety, but they walked away without casting one backward glance.
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