The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-01-01

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Not very far irom lbs keasGeky blas
grass Fegioo, Uaess hsfoxiilnoi bot ycs
zee ara 80, Improve ny opportunities
anl you bsvs AlwAys been such plouS
respectable msn slnes ypa'vs bsen oaI
cosehnsB, that I should never hsve sop,
posed TIA, yoa knsW ABy mote shout be
turf thAi
Wei, de fac 0b i u, madam, you cant
AlIus Judge By psaxpcsa. Here's de yere
]. Thun'erbols, qaies hoss A. ebber paced
along 10 any 1dy't coupe, and Jet
shouldua be prised ef Tbune efbol, bad
spsed In him too when be was young,
Why is u that yoa alsays call any
horse you have charge ol Thnn1erbolt'
When you were Judge kimbaiPs coach
mAn ron gave thai name 70 bls horse, and
he toad me that when be fouad you you
were driving dray Of your own, aud the
/ miserable beast that drew Il reioieed IN
the same astounding title.
Dat am a fac, madam. | Allus Gale
any Bit Of hossfesh hss any ting 10 do
wid Thun'srbolt. | names 'em for three
Thu'erbolts dat happened TO come toged-
der one dAJ--rhan'eTbol., the h.ile town
nigh to ssvsnbah where ! done got relig-
ion; fhun n'erbolt, Massa proudhps boss
dat won dc races; sn' right smart crack
Of thuner dat shook de camp-meetin', an
made ne all tink Il war Gsbr'eps horn
BLOWN for sbo. l'se under depression
now dat p'r'sps Gabriel did glib II just a
little lcot, calm an easy like. lie lowed
muffin short OF tech o. dat ar horn would
call dis nigger's soul ont Oh Egyp's dark
mess, an reduce me to take up my Christ
ian cross, an run Thun'erbolt at de races /.
Why MArcellino, what do you mean
Not, | hope, that irs Christian duty TO
race horsesf
II war my Christian duty on dat Ca
sion, madam, dough Amt nebber felt no
call TO 1t sense. ls red my title cisr as a
deep. water Bsptiss TO- nigh on TO ten var,
hus ef should hear de angel oh de Lord
callin' to me sgen, "a he did dat night,
you'd zee dis cbildprancin' down de home
stretch once mo-.
Tell me. about Il, Uncle Marcellino.
Was you ebber ia Savannah, madam
Yes, last winter.
An did you 20 ont TO Bonaventure?
Yes, we rode out to the cemetery. The
live-osks, with their festoons of funeral
Spanish moss, form one Of the most mag
tiShcent and impressive avenues have
ever seem
Nebber could bar dem libe-oaks; sllus
Jocks TO me like parcel OBJ beggars wild
dar clo' tored in tatlers. Nebber can get
ober de feein' dat deys poh, low down,
disre,peclful kline OBJ tree, for oil dey
grows so high. De branches 10 all naked
am cole, spite oh do rags streamin' from
'em. An when de moss don't look like
rags, 1t minds me OBJ gray har, an feel
/ gif orter make de tree present oh q
parcle OBJ har-pins or a hankchlf to do it
up wild. You didn't go no iurder dan
Bonavoniure, reckonf
No; is there anything to seer Es
And than MareelliDo told me OF The lit
tie village of Thunderbot overlooking the
Savannah River, and itself lfoverlooked and
overshadowed by grove OF Druid-like
live oak, lifting their gaunt bare arms TO
heaven, their disheyelled gray locks and
uukempt boards OF moss waving mourn
fully In the slightest breeze. The town
ordinarily wore forlorn, forsaken air
and the sombre little houses seemed to
have gathered under this grove by The
river side as mournfully Is the captive
/ daughters OF Zion who hung their hsrps
on the willows that fringed the rivers OF
Bsbylon.s Tbis was Msrcellino's simile.
lie stated, too, that there we're Two occA-
sions when The ely pot aside its sackcloth
and woke tbe harp 10 strains ofgayer
measure. The arst was at The time OF
the spring races (for the horsoy men oi
Savannah bad established a trotliug park
at ThunderbolG, and tbs second was
Whenever the eol6red Baptis,s appointed
q csmp-meeling in their vicinity. One
year no, very long after the late war both
OF these festivities chsnced to fall upon
the same time, and the Dfuids Of Tbnn-
derbolt shook their withsfed limba and
tore their hair IN diaspprobstion OF the
revelry going on beneath them
MsreelIino was one Of The negroes who
had seen ct TO remain with bis master
after the passage of the Civil Rights Bill,
with no pfccsptible change OF condi'
tlou except thai bis master now gave him
bic money with which to purchase bis
ciothes, instead OF taking the trouble 10
buy them for him. Toe war had made q
far greater change 10 tho circumstances Of
NareeIliDo's former master, Walter
Prond6t. Though too young to take
part 10 II personally, bis father had fallen
10 one OF It's earlier battles, aud on WAlte'
had devolvsd the care Of his mother and
The estate, which last had dwindled rapid.
~, until the year OF which Marcellinc
spoke found him the possessor only ot
the ranIly mansion os Ball Street and Of
Zoe race horse.
Things might have been worse than
this, for great deal Of money might BE-
nsds BY shrewd unserupulous man in
rseing the splendid Animal, which he bad
named ThunderboIl, from the little towr
I with ils lrottlng course near by; and I
Mrs. Prondht bad chosen sbe could have
replenisbed their empty eoGers from lh'
pockets OF The Northerners who ever
wintsr looEed euviously Al The tea rosci
blooming 10 ber garden, wishing tha