stable-yard's

Updated: May 14, 2025

The Major stayed in town for the evening mail and drove home after dark, alone, but complacent, almost jovial. He had got three valentines. At Widewood that same hour there was deep silence. Since the first of the year the only hands left on the place were a decrepit old negro and wife, whom even he pronounced "wuthless," quartered beyond the stable-yard's farther fence.

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner