September, 1919 
FOREST AND S T R E A M 
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girls, three are happily married, while 
little Fritz, the apple of his loving 
father’s eye, is a stalwart man of twen- 
ty-one, wearing the Forester’s Green uni- 
form of his country’s “bird men.” 
Of this world’s goods, I have but small 
store, but in memory’s vaults I have 
hoarded a great treasure, of days like 
these, by forest and stream, and marsh, 
and gunning point, and rushing tide 
ways, all marked with the magic red 
letter and laid carefully away, more pre- 
cious by far than rubies and fine gold; 
and when the days of gloom descend 
upon me, as come they must to all things 
mortal, I take them from their wrappings 
one by one and live them over again, and 
then the gloom dispels, again the sun 
shines brightly on life’s pathway, and 
I press bravely on towards the ever near- 
ing goal, the end of all declining years. 
JAMES ALEXANDER 
HENSHALL 
(continued FRG-I page 467 ) 
A new tobacco bam had just been 
completed on the plantation, and 
a barn-warming dance had been 
arranged for the next Saturday night. 
The neighbors for miles around were in- 
vited and great preparations were being 
made for the event. An important feat- 
ure was to be a supper at the close of 
the festivities. Our little band volun- 
teered its services to furnish the music. 
A platform was built at one end of the 
room for its accommodation and a chair 
placed in front of it for uncle Cyrus, the 
plantation fiddler, who was to call the 
figures for the quadrilles. A long table 
had been built along one side of the 
room, covered with a tablecloth taken 
from a bolt of new muslin. 
The guests began arriving late on 
Saturday afternoon in carriages, wagons, 
boats and on horseback and all were on 
hand by early candlelight. What with 
milady’s maids, drivers and boatmen, the 
colored folks were well represented. On 
the evening in question all of the lamps 
available were placed around the four 
sides of the room, and numerous sconces, 
furnished with candles, were also util- 
ized. Two improvised chandeliers had 
been constructed with two pieces of thin 
board placed crosswise which were also 
furnished with numerous candles and 
suspended from the roof, so that ample 1 
provision had been made for a very fair j 
illumination. 
As it was to be an informal affair 
the guests were not expected to appear 
in evening costume. The ladies were 
plainly but neatly dressed, and the gen- 
tlemen wore their second best. Some of 
the men servants, however, who were to 
serve as waiters during the supper, were 
conspicuous in plug silk hats and swal- 
low-tail coats of a very ancient vintage, 
and probably had seen service at the 
inaugural balls of Presidents Jackson 
or Van Buren before being handed down 
to their present owners. A group of 
women servants seated in a corner of the 
room were clothed in raiment glorious to 
behold and of such dazzling colors that 
their dark corner was thereby lighted up 
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