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Pleading excessive fatigue, I begged the privilege of resting within the cabin. An apparently unwilling assent was given. In I walked, and, occupying one of those splint chairs which so irresistibly invite one to commit a breach of good manners by
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I sat in the door-way, comfortably swaying backward and forward. Every once in a while the faces of children, either black or white, would peer at me round the corner of the house, then the sound of scampering bare feet would betray their sudden flight. Suddenly I caught sight of a pair of bare, black feet protruding from under the bed. Presently an unmistakable squawk arose, instantly smothered, but followed by a fluttering of wings and a chorus of squawks. So upset was the lady of the house that she involuntarily called out,
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gpt
Ma'am, came in a frightened voice from under the bed, then in whining tones,
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I dun try to mek 'em hush up, but 'pears like Mass Debbel be on dey side, anyhow.
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Come, you have the chickens ready caught, I'll give you your own price for them. She hesitated--and was lost, for producing from my pocket a small package of snuff, to which temptation she at once succumbed, I obtained in exchange six fine, fat chickens. As I was leaving she said, in an apologetic tone,
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Well, I declah, I never knowed you was going to light, or I wouldn't have done sich a fool-trick.
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and having my team put up until morning. This I was glad to do, for it was quite out of the question to start on my homeward journey that night. Greatly I enjoyed the hospitality so ungrudgingly given, the appetizing supper, the state bed in the best room, with its
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quilt of patch-work. Here was a Confederate household. The son was a soldier. His wife and his little children were living