The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-30
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| AT Mount Vernon we found the old
| house where George lived and died. where
Martha told him to wipe his feet before
he came In the house. and saw that
things were cooked properly. We saw
! pictures of revolutionary scenes and men
| OF that period. relics Of the days when
| George was the whole thing around there.
| We saw the bed on which George died,
and then we went down to the ice-house
and looked through the fence and say
the marble collins In which Georsf and
| Martha were scaled UP. Say, old man.
| know you haven't got much reverence,
but you couldn't look through that fence
at what remains OF the father of his
country without taking of your hat and
| thinking good things while you were
there.
[ was surprised at dad; he cried though
! he never met George Washington In all
| his llfc.. have seen dad at funerals at
| home, when he was bearer, or a nourn-
| er, and he never acted as though 1t of
fectcd him much, but there al Mount YER
non, standing within eight feet OF the
| remains Nof George Washington. he just
| lost his nerve, and bellered. and l felt
solemn myself, like ! had been kept IN
after school when all the boys were go
| Ing in swimming. II a negro had not
asked dad for a quarter know dad
would have got down on his knees and
been pious but when he gave that negro
! swift kick for butting In with a COM
mercla proposition, In a sacred moment,
dad come to, and went up to the house
| again. ~
Dad said what he wanted was to think
OF George washington Just MS n country
farmer, instead of a general and a presl-
dent, He said we got nearer to George.
| hi tn he
morning, putting on his old farmer pants
aid shirt. and going downstairs In his
| stocking feet, and going out to the kitch-
en- BY the wooden bench. dipping gourd
| full Of rain water out OF barrel into
an earthen wash hnsn, and taking some
| soft soap out of a dish and washing him
self, his shirt open so his great hairy
breast would catch the breeze. his sus-
| penders, made of striped bed ticking,
hanging down, his hair touseled UP until
lie had taken out yellow pocket comb
and con,bed it. and then yelling to Mar
| tina 10 know about how long a working
man would have to wait for breakfast.
| xnd then dad enid he liked to think OF
George washington sitting down at the
breakfast table and spearlhg sausages
out Of n platter and when n servant
brought In a mess OF these od-fashloned
buckwheat cakes, rs biz as a pieplate,
sec George, in Imagination, pilot a big
one on to his plate, and cover 1t with
sausage gravy, and eat like he didn't
have any dyspepsia, and see him help
Martha to buckwheat cakes and finally
get up from breakfast like a full Christian
ana 80 out on the farm and count, up
the happy slaves to see II any Of them had
got away during the ntght.,
Byl ginger, dad inspired me with new
thoughts about the father Of his country
| had always Thought Of Washington rs
though he was constantly crossing the
Delaware in a skiff, through floating Ice,
with cooked hat on, and his coat flaps
trimmed with buff napkeen stuff, sort
OF y male I1lila In Uncle Tonl's Cabin
getting away from the hounds that were
chasing her to chew her pants. was
always. thinking Of George eithey chop
ping cherry trees, or standing Oh a
pedestal to have his picture taken. but
| here at the old farm, with dad to inspire
! me. I was Just mingling with Washington,
! the planter. the ne!ghbor. telling the
negroes where they would get off at u
| they aidnt pick cotton fast enough. or
breaking colts or going to the ohurn ane
drinking quart OF buttermllk, and gett-
Ling the stomach ache, and calling up
stairs to Martha. who was at,the spinning
] wheel. or knitting wooden socks, and ask
her to fix up brandy smash to cure