| | 1 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Add | | | Title: | Po' Sandy  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON the northeast corner of my vineyard in central North Carolina,
and fronting on the Lumberton plank-road, there stood a small frame
house, of the simplest construction. It was built of pine lumber, and
contained but one room, to which one window gave light and one door
admission. Its weather-beaten sides revealed a virgin innocence of paint.
Against one end of the house, and occupying half its width, there stood a
huge brick chimney: the crumbling mortar had left large cracks between
the bricks; the bricks themselves had begun to scale off in large flakes,
leaving the chimney sprinkled with unsightly blotches. These evidences
of decay were but partially concealed by a creeping vine, which extended
its slender branches hither and thither in an ambitious but futile attempt
to cover the whole chimney. The wooden shutter, which had once
protected the unglazed window, had fallen from its hinges, and lay
rotting in the rank grass and jimson-weeds beneath. This building, I
learned when I bought the place, had been used as a school-house for
several years prior to the breaking out of the war, since which time it
had remained unoccupied, save when some stray cow or vagrant hog had
sought shelter within its walls from the chill rains and nipping winds of
winter. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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