New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-24
THE Dixie.
THE OWNERS FIND 1T.

tRanSOm, juno IL
When you meet with person who has endured the
same pangs which arc now affecting you no" you
hato to part with that person! He Is like an old
friend.
1 felt like cIingng to this whose wife had boon
the heires of some dke and who had just told us OF
his experience while his load of kelp and our buggy
waited. He had been obliged TO move to Mashneid
He may have had pleasant home about which iona
"reminiscences clustered etc., but the spell of the fend
vas laid upon him, and he left that homo.
"Do you Think said timidly, when he paused and
ehewed his whip handle "do you really think that
wc also shall be compelled to live near2"
"Can't say, positively, in COURSE he answered.
sbut 1 prophesy youn do jest that thing eggsactly
And IL you do, and whom you do, You take my advice
now you como to the Brant. The Brants tho place
for women. guess I'll be goln'"
He turned abruptly away, trailing his whipash over
his shoulder and climbed up on to his moist load. He
took the lines and smiled with pity and sympathy as
he cautioned US to be m 60 right back to that gate
BY the Webster place. wanted to rush alter him
wildly and beg him never to leave us until we were on
the 10 Tilden dke But stood still In silence as
becomes a women.
The mans horse strained and pulled and finally
Started. The man turned toward us and said with
great impressiveneSs:
"Mnd, I tell We, the Brant's tho place for women
And when ye move down. don't f'rgt that Eve got
pesky nice little house to the Brant that III SOIL
reasonable"
The rens were slapped Violently, and the pile Of odor
Uus kelp moved out of sight.
We had resumed place in the buggy and were
preparing to turn round, when our friend suddenly
appeared at the front wheel and said:
81 meant have told ye that II you do git In that
grass yerselves en- do for yes reasonable, m moro
20, m most anybody. My names Peake; live over on
t'othcr road anybOdy'll tell We where Rodgo Peahe
Aves.n
Then be gone again. 1t was dreadful Tor us 10
DO left to remember that he had not been dsinerested
when he had said that tho Brant was the place for
women.
IL have resolved upon thing" said my friend, as
70 successfully drove through the right gate and were
actually unlmpeded way TO our land, ana that
q, that II such thralls of the dixie that VIC have
70 down here, shall not 60 to tho Grant There
b whcre shall CO."
She pointed to the shanty which now perfectly
visible In all its desolation, standing on the unutte
able Hatness Of the flats. i did not Know that any
thing could be level as was the stretch Dclore US
1t so uniform that it made my head SWIM
vnroicd in unvarying extent that was suggestive
Of entire yacuIty. 1t made one frantic. Ana thcro
the barn, blacker moro dismal than the shanty'
II was very large barn IL told plainly that there wes
. good deal of grass on the dike.
The fats divine green now 1 couiu not uchy
that: nor that It a sweet wind that gently came
from the ocean nor that tho wild birds flying about
we precisely the proper birds to be sailing above such
q landscape Yes there was solemn and mysterious |
place down here.
felt It moro and as tho horse trottod noise
lessiy over tho path toward the barn The little settle
mont at Brant Rock was in partial view. Between |
It and us flowed, without ripple, the narrow Cut /
River.
at 10 good place for a suicide" said. 81 never
was I'm place far OFF,
ats good place to live I'm with conscience that
Is clear" the response. II you do not consent
to como down, i shall think 1t is because you are
haunted by the memory Of an undiscovered crime.'
We had carefully brought the keys to the padlocks
which fastened the barn and the shanty. We had
never been into the latter building We now found
that our hey was quite superfuous. Tho staple had
been pulled out and the door now swung partially open
II was not wen furnished residence. In fact tho
furniture consisted of stove, scanned and rent that
Il trcmbed walked near II very large frying
pan, sun showing Enthusiastically that tho last thing
coohod in 1t fat salt pork, and pack Of extremely
greasy playing cards placed In careless manner on tho
Isdge Of the only window in the place THIS was the
errntuss uulsss bunhs came """sr that haah A