The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-04-26
Aunt Dinah's Revelations,
BY LULA SAXON.

The springtime, with its warm sun
shine and trees, with their budding
foliage of light green, and the sweet
breath of flowers Is there not
awakened in you an indehnable feel
ing yOu cannot account for, that fills
your whole soul with a sense of long
ing, and every now and then you have
desire to wander forth in search of
you know not what!
At last, unable to endure the feel
ing longer, you go out into the genial
sunshine and when You lift your eyes
to the blue horizon and the tops of
budding trees, you draw in your
breath filling your lungs with fresh,
pure air and sweet perfume.
| Then there comes IA sweet refrain, a
deep sigh, a sense Of great relief, as
though from your soul something were
lifted. Have you ever analyzed the
feeling? No! Then l will tell you. 1t
is nature whispering. pleading, crying
for recognition and communion. AS
nature is the element in which all ar
tistic people should work and live, it
is but natural they should feel her
magnetic influence. 1t is then that
the ideal regions of the soul expand
and partake OF spirit at once grand
and poetic.
That is the way ] felt one bright
day last spring, as ! wandered with
my little artist friend toward the riv-
er in search of something to sketch
We walked some distance up the river
bank where we found an old negro
man seated in skitf
"Uncle, will you row us across the
river ?"
Law, missey, dis am de ferry, an
is watin' fur passengers he replied
with a grin.
We stepped lightly into he skif
and soon we were in midstream
watching the city, slowly envelopet
, in delicate mantle of blue mist.
Here we is, missey; here's de plac,
S yer aXcd me ter row you ter" callet
= out the ferryman, few minute
later.
: We got out and walked down th
c river bank and paused beneath th
shadows Of great oak tree, and SC
y lccted for our subject an old, ricket
d hut, with the remnants of IA shed be
;. fore it and an immense oak towerin
+ high above, spreading out hug
a branches, all covered with gray moss
Il New leaves OF delicate green ha
come forth, forming quite cOntras
. to the moss; two or three branChe
J. had fallen on the roof, covered wit
" lichcn, quite white in the sunlight
Beyond was a wide stretch Of uncult
!" waited land and away back in til
. distance the woods loomed up undt
" that peculiar atmospheric effect a
. lists so delight in.
- We made the sketch in few hour
st packed up our belongings and wake
to the hut, where sat an old negre'
=. who, when she saw us, bounced u
m b0wing and smiling and showing vel
h. white teeth.
"Aunty, will you please give us
IN glass of water Z" l asked.
he Law, yas'm yns'm! Nuthin' but
h, gourd to drink outer, honey; but yo
welcome, yos welcome. Jist sit you
" selves down on desc split botto
mt chairs while l gifts hit"
''e So we sat down and presently she
f., turned with a gourd full Of wate
as After / had Quenchcd my thirst,
er said: "Aunty, do you live here o
= al0ne?"
: "No'm, oh, nom! Isc got an o
H.. man, ] has"
70 "Oh, then you arc married +"
/. "Wcll, yas'm-er-ah--yas'm; b
CO mebbc yer amt gwine ter tink
kase, yer see, was jined BY the Lor
IS. instead Ob de preacher"
as "What do you mean, aunty p
nc II means, dis: When chile do
r. been SIT onto fire Onct, slSeain't gwi
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