Laura Brayton — page 185: what you’re looking at

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176 LAURA BRAYTON, Then he went out and helped his guest into the mule-cart, such as is generally used in that section, and then “Liddy” sprang in lightiy, and the little negro driver started his mule with a slap of the rope reins on its hindquarters, which produced an uprising of its heels which nearly reached his sharp shin-bones as he sat on the front-board. But the start was made, and along over the snow-white sand the journey toward Baltimore was commenced. com Cc boo SS com)