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been a success, as her green meadows and beautiful Jerseys 

 and Ayershires will attest. She ignores cotton altogether, and 

 confines her efforts entirely to forage crops, delights in fine 

 stock, and sits on her horse as securely and handles the lines 

 behind her spirited bays with the confidence of an expert. 

 In many ways ehe reminds me of her grandfather, not alone 

 in her predelections to agriculture and fine stock, but in the 

 unassuming simplicity of her manner, and her disposition and 

 capacity to entertain and interest others. 



In the dark days of the Confederacy, and after the war, 

 during the years of poverty of the widowed mother, this 

 daughter became the great comfort to the mother and the sole 

 instructress to her younger brothers, and besides her teaching, 

 Pat went but a short time to Prof. Cooledge, at the Dalton 

 Academy, and to the devotion and inspiration from this noble 

 sister he is, no doubt, indebted in a large measure for his extra- 

 ordinary success in life. Miss Margie seems to have no aspi- 

 rations for herself; her whole ambition in life is concentrated 

 in the interests of her brothers ; she prefers the most simple 

 and retired life and is chi6f and major domoress of the entire 

 home department. 



I love to think and talk about the John C. Calhoun 

 family, they were our nearest neighbors and best fiiends; the 

 Calhoun boys were my school mates for years, and they were 

 ray associates all through the days of my youth — we rode to 

 school together to old Pendleton, hunted together in our holi- 

 lidays and the youngest son, William Lowndes, was my bosom 

 friend ; his mother used to call us her " Damon and Pythias." 

 The first enterprise I ever attempted, he w^as my partner. I 

 have outlived them all, and shall ever cherish in the greenest 

 spot in my heart every member of that noble family. 



