hat it is safe. There are no
guns about. We have with us, and have had for five and twenty years, a
family of colored people who know our ways and meet them intelligently
and faithfully. When we go away--as we do each winter and sometimes
during the other seasons--and come again--dinner is on the table, and
everybody--even to Tigue and Bijou, the dogs--is glad to see us. Could
mortal ask for more? And so let me close with the wish of my father's
old song come true--the words sufficiently descriptive of the reality:

_In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining,
May my fate no less fortunate be
Than a snug elbow chair can afford for reclining
And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea--
A cow for my dairy, a dog for my game.
And a purse when my friend needs to borrow;
I'll envy no nabob his riches, nor fame,
Nor the honors that wait him to-morrow._

_And when at the close I throw off this frail cov'ring
Which I've worn for three-score years and ten--
On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring
Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again.
But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey,
And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow--
That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day_

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