r cried, Oh, give me joy,
For I have born a darling boy!
A darling boy! why the world is full
Of the men who play at push and pull.

Well, as full as the room was of beds and tenants, on the
morning of the twenty-second, there arose a wail upon the air,
and this mundane sphere had another inhabitant, and my room
another occupant. I left after that, and when I came back the
house was fuller than it was before, and my hostess gave me to
understand that she would rather I should be somewhere else, and
I left again. How did I fare? Well, I had been stopping with one
of our teachers and went back; but the room in which I stopped
was one of those southern shells through which both light and
cold enter at the same time; it had one window and perhaps more
than half or one half the panes gone. I don't know that I was
ever more conquered by the cold than I had been at that house,
and I have lived parts of winter after winter amid the snows of
New England; but if it was cold out of doors, there was warmth
and light within doors; but here, if you opened the door for
light, the cold would also enter, and so part of the time I sat
by the fire, and that and the crevices in the house supplied me
with light in one room, and we had the deficient window-sash, or
perhaps it never had had any lights in it. You could put your
finger through some of the apertures in the house; at least I
could mine, and the water froze down to the bottom of the
tumbler. From another such domicile may kind fate save me. And
then the man asked me four dollars and a half a week board.

One of the nights there was no fire in the stove, and the next
time we had fires, one stove might have been a second-hand
chamber stove. Now perhaps you think these people very poor, but
the man with whom I stopped has no family that I saw, but
himself and wife, and he would make two dollars and a half a
day, and she worked out and kept a boarder. And yet, except the
beds and bed clothing, I wouldn't have given fifteen dollars for
all their house furniture. I should think that this has been one
of the lowest down States in the South, as far as civilization
has been concerned. In the future, until these people are
educated, look out for Democratic victories, for here are two
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