Virginia of Virginia: A Story

VIRGINIA OF VIRGINIA
A Story
BY AMÉLIE RIVES
AUTHOR OF “A BROTHER TO DRAGONS, AND OTHER OLD-TIME TALES” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1888
Copyright, 1888, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.

“It’s a girl,” said Roden, laying a wager with himself. “No; it’s a boy. Hanged if it isn’t a girl!” He took his short brier-wood pipe from his mouth, knocked out its contents against the side of the wagon, and pocketed it.
The time of the year was January, the scene a country road in Virginia, and it was drizzling, a thick Scotch drizzle, abetted by a lusty east wind. Even the branches of the straggling locust-trees that lined the red road seemed clogged with it. It hung in folds upon the sides of the mountains, and was blown in masses between the clefts of the rolling meadows.