The sun., 1897-05-09
AARON in THE Wild WOODS.
The Story of a Southern
Swamp.
BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.
NV.

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| The Ahercrou,b,e nl,ca hut ,hjs d,d not ada n
| biS cood bu,nor NJ had hi. ,o,hor,. s,rIv
| ,cmncr and VIII 4, ,.,,dic,,,,o .n,-,, ,h.,
was ontirely locl,u- in ,bc elder Cossott More
,v.r n,.h,d -,,, ,,.,on..., ,,,- s,,,-,o,-od III.
enc-vic, n. Il had bis n,thers
The fnrt tint bo Ios f,ilct :, c,r,ur. Aaron
struck him os,n ,,crs,nol otTront. IJc WINS stun,,
by II. He felt hat he and his father had been
vropecd by some ono. h, couldn,t sav WIN but
not by the runaway. for what was n .niveer. {"
anyhowf After n while tho idca WINS borno In
upon him that he and HIS family Ind somehow
boon "insuItcd" nv the Aborcrombies He
arrived at this eonclusion bv n very circu,tous
route Tho Abercrombie. ,yoro h,rhoripo :,
Yankee in their hons. and ~ th,v Ind Tho
stomach To do tbot. why wasn't n inst as casv
for them IN barbor .n.ns" rnn,wny ri,,oor
especiallv when thew were so keen IN buv him ,
Anotber thing tbat stunu him though bc nevcr
mentioned n wa. tho sudden md nnsxnI,in,hIe
attitude OF his father toward Aaron Young
Gossatt had ohsorved thu, h;s ,.thor nno,r.5
IN b,ye Loaf ;p,.rest In Tho ,,,noway ,ft.r NJ
Jim simmons failed tn catch him Int tho fart
,vas NOT in,nro,.ed ,,non tho youn, u,on,. mind
unt,j tho doy ho to,d th, ,d.r f,osso,, ohor, ,ho
,,e.r sieht bo anu, In Ahororo,,h;o,. ,o.trro
"wcre WI, b,r,tin, tho rnrounr -. his tothor
,ak ed with como ip,nat;ence
"wbv, no nan We ,rcren,t doin,, n thing IN
tho world but cross;ne the na.tur. I'm our ,voy
IN tho Tprnor old aoIds F"
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If Won don't vnrvl cot burt Itnow What In,
,aiLing about"
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nop," h, cr,,d .air,t ho ,.o,,r ,i,,ror, D,d,,t
you buv hin, nd ~, - ro,,r ,,o,o, Jn,r ,r hI, |,
Don.t Won want hin, out ~ III. wood.t And
,,ho,s ,,o,n,. 20 Inv, $40 ran,-
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n ching Itnon,it Lot ,hc rrna,r., ,Iono
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thodov Aaron was .o,d from, ,ho h,o., Th.
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OF chiioreh as yet UNBORN ana happy IN the re-
spcct and confidence of those whose interest he
served
c,.. ,
ferhaps II george Hossett could nave looked
into tho future, the blaze that produced these
results rould never have becn kind,ed and
~ ~ I,,,, ~, nv
then the story OF Aaron IN the wild Woods
could have been OF length, but tho conclusion
would not have been difyercnt
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