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do all the other elements of the situation. 

 The southern colonel with his broad slouch 

 hat and his long legs and long beard, ap 

 pears in great force. So does the southern 

 negro in all degrees of picturesqueness. 

 From an elevated office window I look 

 down upon the open market-place with its 

 ox-carts and its wagon loads of water- 

 &quot; millions &quot; and vegetables of all sorts ; and 

 in the court-house, where the general quiet 

 ness and decorum in speech surprised me, 

 I have the opportunity to admire the skill 

 with which a learned advocate, in the 

 course of an impassioned address to the 

 jury, manages to &quot;shoot off his mouth&quot; 

 unerringly (I use the popular slang in a 

 literal sense) first in one direction and 

 then in another, at the spittoons stationed 

 many feet away from him, while I observe 

 evidences all around me of a lack of similar 

 skill upon the part of others. 



As the train wound its circuitous way 

 through the Shenandoah valley two nights 

 ago, it seemed to pitch and roll almost like 

 a vessel in a storm at sea, insomuch as to 

 make walking from one end of the car to 

 another without support quite impossible ; 

 and even in one s berth, one was liable to 

 be overcome by qualms of conscience, or 



