1 8 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



sunrise. It is his market day, and the old sorrel inare 

 is harnessed, and tied to the hitch-post. The wagon 

 is of antique shape, bulging out in front and rear, and 

 with half-rounded ends. The high-backed seat is sup- 

 ported upon a V-shaped framework of ash, and cov- 

 ered over with a yellow buffalo skin, of which the 

 fur is half worn away. An oaken firkin is presently 

 lifted in, with a white linen cloth shut down under 

 its cover, and a corner of the buffalo turned over it 

 to shield it from the dust and the sunshine. Then 

 comes a bushel basket of eggs, packed in rowen hay ; 

 next the great clothes-basket, covered with a table 

 cloth, in which lie the two hind quarters of a veal 

 killed yesterday, (the fore quarters being kept for 

 home consumption.) In the corner of the wagon is 

 thrust a squat jug its stopper being a corn-cob 

 wrapped around with newspaper which is to be 

 filled with " Port o' reek " molasses. Then, at last, 

 Jerusha, the wife, in silver spectacles, and Sunday 

 gown, clambers in a stout woman, with her waist 

 belted in, after a loose sausage-like way who has a 

 last word for her ' darter ' Sally Ann, and then 

 another last word, and who cautions Enos (her hus- 

 band) about " turnin' too short," and who asks if the 

 mare " an't gittin' kind o' frisky with the spring 

 weather ? " 



So they drive away Enos and Jerushy. They 



