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But he knew all the bird people who do live there, for he had met them in the sunny southland, where they spent the winter, "I believe I'll go pay my respects to Mrs. Peter," said Mistah Mocker one day, winking at Ol' Mistah Buzzard. Ol' Mistah Buzzard chuckled and winked back.
Moreover," he continued earnestly, "I have heard that news has come from the southland that the people of Hordaland and Rogaland, Agder and Thelemark, are gathering, and bringing together ships, men, and arms what can all this mean if it be not resistance to the King?" "Right," said Harald thoughtfully. "Now, Hake, I will tell thee what to do, and see thou waste not time about it.
"You see, we've taken the Southern route, after all, for soon we shall be on the Imperial road, which leads to San Diego in the heart of the gorgeous Southland." "What is the Imperial road?" inquired Beth. "The turnpike through Imperial Valley, said to be the richest bit of land in all the world, not excepting the famous Nile banks of Egypt.
Across the wide street was Bachelors' Row, where were installed hunters and hounds from the Southland, rich cotton and sugar planters, sporting men and their sable attendants. Here the candles burned all night, and there were loud whispers of games in vogue not as innocent as those listed on the tempting advertising circulars of the Springs.
After saying so much for human culture in my last, perhaps I may now be allowed a word for wildness the wildness of this southland, pure and untamable as the sea. In the mountains of San Gabriel, overlooking the lowland vines and fruit groves, Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage. Not even in the Sierra have I ever made the acquaintance of mountains more rigidly inaccessible.
Could the handling of this incident have been multipled a thousand times could men have realized that mere accidents are fleeting but that principles are eternal both races would have been spared years of agony, and our Southland would be a far different place to-day. The Negro was at the heart of the problem, but to that problem the South undoubtedly held the key.
The town of S , toward which these weary travelers turned their steps, was stretching out its hands to clasp Opportunity and Prosperity as those fickle commodities rebounded from the vain-glorious North; the smile was creeping back into the haggard face of the Southland; the dollars were jingling now because they were no longer lonely.
In my first paper I endeavored to present a picture of the sunny Southland in the ante-bellum days, when wealth and culture and hospitality were the watchwords of the hour before the invasion of hostile hordes had vandalized the sacred old traditions, and crumbled the household gods in the dust.
"And I accept this noble chieftain equally as the representative of this Southland in the spirit of his retirement from struggle.
"Fate has swept all my kinsmen away," said he, "and now I must follow them." That was his last word, as his soul departed from his bosom, to join the company of the just. Of all Kings in the world, he was, said his men, the gentlest to his knights and the most desirous of honour. There dwelt once in Southland a King named Altof, who was rich, powerful, and gentle.
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