“Mammy,” chiefly discoursed of cows and calves, hens and chickens, and ducks and geese.
Mammy’s “old man” treated of the condition of the “craps,” the health of the “hosses,” oxen, sheep, pigs, and so forth.
And Drusilla having been a pupil of that famous agriculturist, the late Mrs. Judge Lyon, was well able to give instructions to her farm-managers.
Thus, busily and happily passed the days of the little lady, until events occurred again to change the current of her life.
CHAPTER XII.
THE MAIL-BAG.
Newspaper! who has never felt the pleasure that it brings?
It always tells us of so many strange and wondrous things.
It makes us weep at tales of woe, it fills our hearts with mirth,
It tells us of the price of stock, and what produce is worth;
And when and where, and why, and how strange things occur on earth.