Col Judson of Alabama Or a Southerners Experience At the North

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. The Gipps Family Resolve To Know The Colonel's Seckets. Miss Tillik, owing to the shock ot the previous evening, and to overtaxing her brain-power in the composition of her sonnet, was unable to rise next morning in time to help her mother get breakfast, although she was on time to eat it. The colonel had gone out. After breakfast, she followed her mother up-stairs to the colonel's room and sat down in one of the easy chairs; and with her long, bony arms folded in elegant leisure, she looked on, talking in tones of subdued sorrow about that inopportune snore, while her mother, in a contrite, humble way, went about doing up the work. " I was hoping all the evening after Dickel left," crooned Miss Tillie, mournfully, " that you'd wake up and go off to bed; but I hated to tell you to, for fear of