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to accompany us.  We waited till a minute of the time
when I got my ticket, and we got [went] aboard the train.
We had given her up, when Mr. W. saw her coming: she
had no more than boarded the train when it started.
The morning was very misty, in fact, so much so, it
looked like rain, yet towards 7 o'clock in [it] began to clear,
and before 10 o'clock it was cloudless and remained so
the rest of the day.  The day was very warm, in the 
sun really, hot, but as our tramp was for the most part
in the shade we had a most pleasant day.  We had
not gone very far along the river road when Mr. W. found
a bottle filled with coffee, we <s>f</s> were still <s>talking</s>
<s>about</s> examining it, when an old colored man came along.
He had a large bag and an ax, and walked very slowly.
We gave him the bottle; he could not have been induced
to take the coffee, even if it did smell good. We
found him easily aroused, which he would express by
a peculiar laugh - huh-huh-huh-huh. (all in one pitch
and one tome of voice).  He told us he did most anything
and trapped some.  He trapped possums, coons, muskrats
        