The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20

house. please lot me have some BREAKFAST. for
p p ys,. He se padded u cd me- up the pond and he had
AT this a shadow lodges down hastily from
the dining room window where the woolly
trap. which Is being psadisaa '' up Stream re- mn BY yi Tie
balls out the water C oceasio s%i ' fro% the ssi ieaSy
boat and keeps an eyo open for ducks.
.a The pond pom L , pretty .n in W ,So1 ! An III the nSI bonnet onast
duce TO malaria. are out Of the way. and the
topped pines and tho blue. blue sky. Up, and
further up the bsteau goes. until the pond
n mGrsSs into stp. = a"lf ra s%"nsse eitw nna 1 s4Sys. z SSSsi
edges, amid grasses and ferns and 6road,loaved
ance. The little craft glidss softly and steadily
+" gaye 40 cents for It," explains the trapper
willow on the bank, and the trap 10 seen clever.
ly smoushed in grasses and straw and set OF
seductively with q piece OF fshhead. IF /
catch the otter can sell the skin for - by send;
ing Il to New York; maybe for as much as 81,
puts in Dave, who finds his tongue amid these
natural and impeiling surroundings. My big
S srnidS ,l MSrS %is Ssn aye , up IN ,iS z tree Tree By .ys si S;i ms
one night las week, huntin' otter. De tree was
a hanging oyer de creek and Marcy say d9'
together out on de hank"
did ho get anyf'
No; cause he ain had no gun. but dis year he
workin' for hcself, and he aim to buy u shooter.
Don he gwino climb back ern dat Saddlsr swamp
tree and tist scatter dem offers right and left"
winter to q piney woods plantation down South
and the country. seems full Of sweet sounds.
and Aado jar .n Of G st.oi and al drih ron a .Ss s sasnlnf The % s %S1SI;
common to nature, and SO ordinary and every
a dSsn Il sSI% "a r ,SS (, Sor be , PSiies si, stri st t sSe ssns 80
warn tho quarters that, although 1t 10 winter
there is yot work 70 be done; the creak Of the
10 watcredd, and that ia FAR enough Cd to mellow
tho sound: the whaokl whackl Of AN ,echoing axe
At some far-of cabin or out under the pines In
r~ail3,,rails fresh hearted and gummy-that
comes from tho rise Of ground where the over
seer's house once stood, over across the field,
s sna d Rs5ss Tisi f,HR c,E a4o s sssiIy n,s Sns,s u gind Snd
are infectious. Thu, Kentucky writer, James
Lane Allen In one Of his books remarks that the
negro 10 q blot on the Southern landscape; but
surely he 10 wrong. you think. unless tho riotous
vines are a blot, and tho lnSurinnt canebrakes.
sns dSnk on rice - he aa insia sms Level az Gotten sbn o oessS;
A strong yet mellow voice is heard shouting
lusty syilablcs as the posseseor of those powerful
take up the sound and hold 1t, and you liston
and like 1t, and are sorry when the singer has
strangers to each other, answering the midday
challenge with echoes that grow fainter and
fainter as the word goes further along, SOON to
stand for comm unity OF interest and friendly
greeting. The little stream that gurgles by.
when ones horse stops for water. makes music
on the wintry air swoeter, in some reckoning.
than the limpid notes OF a thousand
dollar SINGER; and though the moekins birds
are banished from their usual haunts, on cold
days, down in the thick.grown hollow whore
the moss hangs like n screen. there are q plant
and . stir and a soft futtering that tell they
spring. 1t 10 possible hat the soughinR pinos
and echoing spaces, the smoothly running
the negroes voices, so to speak, for tho veriest
corndeld clodhopper OF o darky, the kind likely
stumble over . door mat or look upon . flight of
stairs with suspicion. has a voice with native
melody In 1t. He has Q kind heart 40 well by
nature. and Ia hospitable amt we'll disposed. all
lynching scrapes and anomalies to the contrary.
The big, bare Southern country, out at elbows
posed problems and financial misunderstand-
ings, has a charm all its own. . charm scarcely
to be accounted for in SO many words. but that
10 as Irresistible as 1t 10 elusive.