1902 
59 
A Trek to the South. 
Part V. 
The day after we left Danville, in the 
afternoon, we had to cross a stream, for 
the bridge was broken. We were half 
way across when “snap” went some¬ 
thing. Fred said: “Don’t be frightened, 
Lena,” and he got out. One of our whif- 
fletrees had broken right in two. The 
water was not very deep and Fred got 
his ax out and in a few minutes had a 
young tree down and a new whiffletree 
made and on; and we finished our trip 
across the stream and went on our way 
rejoicing. We were miles from any help, 
so I don’t know what we would have 
done if he was not so handy. That 
night he fixed it up, and it lasted the 
entire trip. From Danville the canal 
was still with us, and we were in the 
woods first and then into a fruit and 
grain world. My, the beautiful fruit 
farms we have passed! Such lots of 
cherries, peaches and apples! At noon 
we asked a young girl if we might eat 
our lunch under her cherry tree; she 
said “Yes,” and staid to visit us. At 
first I thought she might leave us alone, 
but come to find out, she was only 14, 
her mother was dead, and she did all 
the work for her father and uncle, and 
had been going to school, too, poor lit¬ 
tle thing. She told me about her school; 
her father is off on the farm all day and 
she is over a half-mile from anyone. I 
asked her if it was not hard to cook for 
them. She answered: 
“In the Summer, when school is out, 
I do not mind, but in the Winter I have 
to stop and scratch my head to think 
what to have for supper.” 
She was fond of reading and I gave 
her a nice story and will send her some 
more from North Carolina. She- looked 
at McKinley and said: 
“Well, he sits up there as if he owned 
the whole shooting match.” It did look 
as if he thought so. We had all the 
cherries we could eat. 1 told her I had 
not had a decent tasting cherry for 20 
long years, not since I left Jersey. 
I wish you could have been with us 
on that trip through the Susquehanna 
Valley to see the world as we saw it, up 
on a high hill, looking down on places 
all fenced off and all kinds of grain and 
woods between them; hedges of su¬ 
mach and sassafras. Fred had never 
seen sassafras before. I told mm it made 
me think of a crazy quilt—all those dif¬ 
ferent shaped fields and colors. Well, 
we went down the hill and through the 
main street of Sunbury to the ferry in 
great style. Gray gave a snort, and Kin 
sat up in the wagon with me and looked 
around as much as to say: “This is 
nothing. You ought to see the places 
we have been in!” The Susquehanna 
was still a small stream. I was disap¬ 
pointed in it. Sunburg is not a large but 
a lovely town—the people looked as if 
they knew something. Here a reporter 
stopped Fred to ask him about our trip 
A little farther on we had a fine 
chance to see “how the other half lives.” 
There were four darkies gipsying. They 
had a wagon and in it a small trunk and 
bag of -clothes, a box of food and dishes, 
and two iron kettles; one for heating 
water and one for cooking. The elder 
couple slept in the wagon, and the 
younger on a pile of hay under it. They 
had three dogs, and the woman said all 
three of them would not make one good 
one. Our road the next day ibranched off 
from the river, through Pennsylvania 
Dutch farms. We had beautiful weather 
and reached Duncannon at noon, the fol¬ 
lowing day. It is a great railroad cen¬ 
ter, and has 'brass, iron and lots of oth¬ 
er works. The Juniata empties into the 
Susquehanna here; which made it wider, 
but still very shallow. At Marysville, 
which is just a large railroad center, we 
crossed on the ferry to Harrisburg, in a 
storm; our first rain. We were then on 
the road five weeks and had traveled 
400 miles. It was lots of fun, and nice 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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to see so much of the world in such an 
intimate way. At this point we bade 
good-bye to the Susquehanna. 
The following morning it cleared off 
for our start from the hotel, and we had 
a good day, but towards night it just 
poured and we stopped at Dillsburg, a 
small but kindly place, and had a good 
rest; were off again in the morning, but 
soon the rain started in again and kept 
it up ail day and into the night; were 
in the woods for dinner, and had supper 
in the carriage, where we were kept nice 
and dry. All the afternoon we had tried 
to find some place—a hotel or farmhouse 
—to stay, but failed, at any price. I 
finally asked Fred what he thought of 
farmers—“as a class.” How he did 
laugh and shake his head at me! At 
last, late in the evening of 'Saturday, we 
reached Gettysburg and put up at such 
a nice hotel. The people were Christians 
and as kind as could be. We did have 
such an interesting time, going over the 
battlefield! The cannon were there and 
the places all marked where the troops 
fought, so we could follow the battle 
from point to point. The monuments 
were fine. 'I felt so proud of those of 
New York and New Jersey. It was a 
great educator, after all those histories 
of the Civil War that we read together; 
everything seemed so real. All the 
ground around Big Round Top and the 
National Cemetery and the Confederate 
Avenue, is fenced in with nice wire, and 
U. S. painted on it. That night we camp¬ 
ed in Maryland, near the Emmettsburg 
road, where our troops marched, and the 
next day we were on a turnpike that we 
kept till we reached (Staunton, which is 
in the center of Virginia. We passed 
through Hagerstown and Williamsport, 
where the first skirmish occurred after 
the “opening ball” was fired from Fort 
Sumter. It was here, so they told us, 
that our troops crossed the Potomac; 
and they have a gun and flag on the 
hill where the fight was, and the dead 
were buried there. Well, the toll for 
our team was three cents a mile; and I 
tell you our pocketbook was lighter by 
the time we reached Staunton; but the 
roads were fine, and we made good time 
and the horses did not get so tired. They 
kept well, and Fred had offers to sell 
most every day. 
We stopped at a place before we reach¬ 
ed the turnpike, to find if we were on 
the right road; the man was a German, 
and very nice. He said he came* from 
the old country 10 years ago. Fred— 
poor fellow—was very sympathetic, and 
asked him if he did not get homesick, 
so far away from his friends. He an¬ 
swered: 
“Why, no. 1 have a brother out in 
Iowa.” Fred just looked at him 
k. e. w. 
The kind of honesty that won’t actu¬ 
ally steal’s a kind of fool honesty that’s 
common enough; but the kind mat 
keeps people’s mouth shut when they 
hadn’t ought to talk is about the scur- 
cest thing going.—“David Harum.” 
One word— 
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