like the previous question in if my worthy cousin be somewhat over as a he the of his character by a considerate coolness in religious matters he himself upon being a high but is not the most of places of worship and very seldom himself to get into a dispute upon points of faith if mr the in the family ever in drawing him into this field as he occasionally has the address to do is sure to fly the course he gets puzzled with scripture names and makes some odd mistakes between peter and paul and then generally turns the parson over to his wife who he says has an astonishing memory he is somewhat distinguished as a of blooded horses and ever since the celebrated race between and henry has taken to this occupation with a renewed zeal as a matter affecting the reputation of the state it is delightful to hear him upon the value importance and patriotic bearing of this employment and to listen to all his lore touching the mystery of horse craft he has some fine in training which are committed to the care of a old negro named who in his reverence for the occupation is the perfect shadow of his master he and frank hold grave and momentous upon the affairs of the stable in such a sagacious strain of equal debate that it would puzzle a spectator to tell which was the leading member in the thinks he a country gentleman knows a great deal more upon the subject than his master and their frequent intercourse has a familiarity in the old negro which is almost fatal to s the old man feels himself to maintain his positions according to the form and sometimes with a violence of that his master to abandon his ground purely out of faint gets a little by s but generally turns it off in a laugh i was in the stable with him a few mornings after my arrival when he ventured to with the venerable groom upon a professional point but the terminated in its customary way who you up master frank to tell me how to that ere when i as good as nursed you on my knee well tie up your tongue you old replied frank as he walked out of the stable and cease growling since you will have it your own way � and then as we left the old man s presence he added with an affectionate chuckle � sl faithful old cur too that at me out of pure honesty he has not many years left and it does no harm to humor him f chapter family portraits whilst frank himself with his and through life upon the current of his humor his dame my excellent cousin takes charge of the household affairs as one who has a reputation to stake upon her tion she has made it a perfect science and great is her fame in the thereof those who have visited swallow barn will long remember the morning stir of which the murmurs arose even unto the chambers and fell upon the ears of the � the dry rubbing of floors and even the of the same until they were like ice � and the grinding of � and the of ducks and chickens and and all the concert of homely sounds and then her i do not wish to be counted extravagant but a small regiment might march in upon her without disappointment and i would put them for excellence and variety against any thing that ever was served upon moreover all things go like clock work she rises with the lark and an early vigor into the whole household and yet she is a thin woman to look upon and a feeble with a sallow complexion and a pair of animated black eyes which impart a portion of fire to a countenance otherwise from the paths family portraits worn across it in the frequent travel of a low country but although her life has been somewhat by such my cousin is too spirited a woman to give up to them for she is in her constitution and considers herself a fall match for any reasonable in the world indeed i have sometimes thought that she took more pride ih her craft than becomes a christian woman she is even a little vain glorious for to say nothing of her skill in she has occasionally brought down upon her head the sober of her husband by her faith in the of certain in cases of but there is no reasoning against her experience she can the cases � and men may say what they choose about its being contrary to reason and all that � it is their way i but seeing is believing � nine of water in the hollow of the hand from the spring for three mornings before sunrise and a cup of strong with will break an try it when you will in short as frank says will die in that creed i am occasionally up early enough to be witness to her morning which to my mind is rather enforced against the of her numerous family both white and black she is in the habit of preparing some death for them in a small and it to the whole in succession who swallow the dose with a most ineffectual effort at and gallop off with faces all and every thing at swallow barn that falls within the of my cousin is a pattern of industry in fact i consider her the very of the american system for with her the protection of is even more of a passion than a principle every here and there over the estate may be family portraits seen rising in humble guise above the the rude of a log cabin where all the day the plaintive moaning of the spinning wheel rises upon the breeze 