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On the other side were the boys, in physical characteristics the same and suggesting the same social divisions: at the top the farmer now and then a slave-holder and perhaps of gentle blood who had dropped by the way on the westward march of civilization and had cleared some rich river bottom and a neighboring summit of the mountains, where he sent his sheep and cattle to graze; where a creek opened into this valley some free-settler, whose grandfather had fought at King's Mountain usually of Scotch-Irish descent, often English, but sometimes German or sometimes even Huguenot would have his rude home of logs; under him, and in wretched cabins at the head of the creek or on the washed spur of the mountain above, or in some "deadenin" still higher up and swept by mists and low-trailing clouds, the poor white trash worthless descendants of the servile and sometimes criminal class who might have traced their origin back to the slums of London; hand-to-mouth tenants of the valley-aristocrat, hewers of wood for him in the lowlands and upland guardians of his cattle and sheep.
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