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Mars Jeems's Nightmare 65 

maintained a peculiar personal attitude, that might be called predial rather than proprietary. He had been accustomed, until long after middle life, to look upon himself as the property of another. When this relation was no longer possible, owing to the war, and to his master's death and the dispersion of the family, he had been unable to break off entirely the mental habits of a lifetime, but had attached himself to the old plantation, of which he seemed to sinister himself an appurtenance. We found him useful in many ways and entertaining in others, and my wife and I took quite a fancy to him. 

Shortly after we became established in our home on the sand-hills, Julius bought up to the house one day a colored boy of about seventeen, whom he introduced as his grandson, and for whom he solicited employment. I was not favorably impressed by the youth's