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be friendly, so stopped looking and walked along side of us. The
second division of dogs had the same number and behaved
much in the same way.  We wondered what kind of a dog-place
this could be, began counting the dogs and thought these
must be at least a dozen.  When we came close to the house
we saw another dog.  The home was in a awfully delapidated
condition and I thought it must be occupied by negroes.  I was
very much surprised, therefore when a white lady appeared at the door.
It was Mrs. G. She and her husband own the house and the land
(87 Acres) around.  Mrs. G. appeared to be about 50 yrs old.  She is lame.
She had  injured her ankle when younger, and is now obliged to walk
on the side of her foot.  The home looks very old; she said it
was 70 yrs. old, but it is so delapidated it looks older.  In front
of the house, in a circular flower bed, grows a large Opuntia. Mrs.
G. say it blooms in June, that it is most beautiful at that
time.  Last year, she said, it had a hundred blossoms. Various
flowers were in bloom in the Garden,  which is around the house
Grape Hyacinth, Jonquils, Daffodils, Forsythia, Hyacinth and
Violets.  Mr. W. said, "It seems, that you have about a dozen
dogs". "Why" she said, we have more than twenty."  Just think more
        