Memorabilia 



stove he could find in Dahlonega, 

 and send it to them to save their 

 bodies from freezing. This promise 

 was promptly performed and a large 

 four-foot stove, with ample lengths 

 of circumflecting stove-pipe, sufficient 

 to carry warmth to every part of the 

 room, was soon installed in the meet- 

 ing-house, much to the delight of the 

 worshipers there, who made good 

 use of their benefactor's gift. 



Two or three years later King had 

 occasion to revisit the same neigh- 

 borhood. As he journeyed from the 

 railway station to his destination, a 

 few miles distant, he talked with the 

 driver of the conveyance, a white 

 man, concerning various matters of 

 local interest, and inquired especially 

 about the colored church and whether 

 the stove he had sent, in accordance 

 with his promise, was still doing 

 well. "Are you the man that sent 

 that stove down here?" inquired the 

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