Richard Judkins' Wooing; A Tale of Virginia in the Revolution
Richard Judkins' Wooing; A Tale of Virginia in the Revolution
By Thornton Jenkins Hains
19 Jun, 2019
I watched him lazily and noted the action of his mares hind feet as she threw little jets of dust off to either side. The jets mingled together and formed a yellow cloud in the rear, through which could be seen the grinning teeth of Snake in the Gras
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I watched him lazily and noted the action of his mares hind feet as she threw little jets of dust off to either side. The jets mingled together and formed a yellow cloud in the rear, through which could be seen the grinning teeth of Snake in the Grass,[Pg 4] the Majors nigger, who always acted as his body-servant. The snake was mounted ungracefully upon an old spavined clay bank, and he came loping along some three or four fathoms behind his master.
The sky was cloudless and the warm sunshine appeared to annoy the Major. Less