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He sat silent, blinking in the sunshine that fell through the gourd-vines which clambered about the porch where Si had placed his chair. "'Twarn't much of a sizable sperit," Si declared; he seemed courageous enough now to measure the ghost like a tailor. "It warn't more'n four feet high, ez nigh ez dad could jedge. Toler'ble small fur a harnt!" Still the old man made no reply.
The level stretches were many, the slopes gradual, and to those sweet city-bird ladies everything was new and delightful; a log cabin! with clay chimney on the outside! a well and its well-sweep! another cabin with its gourd-vines! They knew that blessed alchemy which turns all things into the poetry of the moment.
Neatest among its whitewashed cabins, greenest with gourd-vines, and always the nearest paid for, was that of the Reverend Leviticus Wisdom, his wife, Virginia, and her step-daughter, Johanna. In the fall of 1869 General Halliday came back to Suez to live. His wife, a son, and daughter had died, two daughters had married and gone to the Northwest, others were here and there.
"Most women are nothing but gourd-vines, grow all over a corn-stalk, kill it, produce gourds until it frosts, and begin all over again in the next generation. James has to do the hoeing around Sallie's roots, and feed her. Might as well marry her hey?" "Does does Cousin James have to support Sallie and the children, Uncle Peter?"
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