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From the back-window I can see a narrow brick-yard sloping down to the river-side, strewed with rain-butts and tubs. What wonder? When I was a child, I used to fancy a look of weary, dumb appeal upon the face of the negro-like river slavishly bearing its burden day after day.
Do you think I forget our alley-house with its three rooms? the carpentering by day, and the arithmetic by night? the sweltering, sultry Sunday mornings in church, and the afternoons sniffling over the catechism among the rain-butts in the back-yard?
From the back-window I can see a narrow brick-yard sloping down to the river-side, strewed with rain-butts and tubs. What wonder? When I was a child, I used to fancy a look of weary, dumb appeal upon the face of the negro-like river slavishly bearing its burden day after day.
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