18 NEGRO CHILDHEX. [CHAP. XXI. 



winch will get on best. The most you can say is, 

 that each kind of vehicle runs fastest on its own line 

 of road.&quot; 



We were passing some cottages on the way-side, 

 when a group of children rushed out, half of them 

 white and half negro, shouting at the full stretch of 

 their lungs, and making the driver fear that his 

 horses would be scared. They were not only like 

 children in other parts of the world, in their love of 

 noise and mischief, but were evidently all associating 

 on terms of equality, and had not yet found out that 

 they belonged to a different caste in society. One 

 of our passengers was a jet black youth, about ten 

 years old, who got down at a lone house in the woods, 

 from the door of which two mulatto boys a year or 

 two younger ran out. There was much embracing 

 and kissing, and mutual caressing, with more warmth 

 of manner than is usually shown by the whites. &quot;We 

 were glad to see the white mistress of the house, 

 probably the owner of them and their parents, looking 

 on with evident pleasure and interest at the scene. 



Milledgeville, a mere village, though the capital of 

 the State, is provided with four neat and substantial 

 wooden churches, clustered together, the Presbyterian, 

 Baptist, Methodist, and Episcopalian. In the latter we 

 found there was to be no service, as the clergyman had 

 been recently &quot; called&quot; to a larger church, newly built, 

 at Savannah. The Presbyterian minister was from 

 New England, and an excellent preacher. He ex 

 horted his congregation to take the same view of 

 their short sojourn on this globe, which the emigrant 

 takes of his journey to the far west, bearing patiently 



