Southern Stories

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Various. Southern Stories

SOUTH

HIS HERO

JERICHO BOB

HOW WE BOUGHT LOUISIANA

THE CITY THAT LIVES OUTDOORS

QUEER AMERICAN RIVERS

THE WATERMELON STOCKINGS

The "'Gator"

THE EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON

HIDING PLACES IN WAR TIMES

ST. AUGUSTINE

CATCHING TERRAPIN

"LOCOED"

A DIVIDED DUTY

THE "WALKING-BEAM BOY."

THE CREATURE WITH NO CLAWS

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It was an October afternoon, and through Indian summer's tulle-like haze a low-swinging sun sent shafts of scarlet light at the highest peaks of the Blue Ridge. The sweet-gum leaves looked like blood-colored stars as they floated slowly to the ground, and brown chestnuts gleamed satin-like through their gaping burs; while over all there rested a dense stillness, cut now and then by the sharp yelp of a dog as he scurried through the bushes after a rabbit.

Surrounded by this splendid autumn beauty stood Mountain Top Inn, near the crest of the Blue Ridge in Rockfish Gap, its historical value dating from the time when Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, after a long and spirited discussion in one of its low-ceiled rooms, decided upon the location of the University of Virginia.

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After this there followed a long pause, during which the stranger looked about inquiringly, then said:

"Jimmy, how long have you been living here?"

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