128 THE FOGY DAYS AND NOW ; 



with the girls in the morning," and as we passed the store 

 treated the girls to torter shell side combs and sacrament wine. 

 The Miss Mary D., of the valley, is still there, but now a 

 silverhaired matron and the faithful mother of a crowd of 

 excellent children. My locks too have changed to a frosty 

 hue, though now and then I still saw on my old fiddle and 

 never strike old " Rye Straw " but I think of Miss Mary and 

 the Rabun County frolic, and when I compare the good old 

 usages of those days with the present fashionable arm clutch, 

 it is impossible for me to restrain a feeling of contempt. 



