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the house or even be left alone in it on account of negros, according to the "crackers" or native whites of the region.

Well, I saw an old house among some beautiful sicamore trees whose delicate new green contrasted with [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] their dusky moss streamers and a black cedar over the roof, and found myself on the sand among big rose bushes & all the Johnson qaucks [[quacks]], overalled and unshaven and homely as the dickens,