"This chestnut-tree (at Cedarcroft, the estate of Mr. Bayard Taylor, in Pennsylvania), is estimated to be more than eight hundred years old." — Sidney Lanier, 1877.
Hard by stood its mate, apparently somewhat younger. It is related in a letter of 1882, from Mrs. Taylor, that in 1880, a year after Mr. Taylor's death, one of these majestic trees gave the first signs of decay: while his comrade lingered two years longer — to follow as closely the footsteps of Mr. Lanier: the two, faithful-hearted "to their master and to him who sang of them."
A Florida Ghost.
The incidents recorded of this storm are matter of history in and around Tampa.
"Nine from Eight".
The local expression "under the hack" is kindly explained by an authority in middle Georgia dialect, Richard Malcolm Johnston, author of `The Dukesborough Tales' and other Georgia stories. He says:
"`Under the hack' is a well-known phrase among the country-people, and is applied, generally in a humorous sense, to those who have been cowed by any accident. A man who is overruled by his wife, I have often heard described as `under the hack': `She's got him under the hack.' So, when a man has lost spirit from any cause, he is said to be `under the hack'. The phrase is possibly derived from `hackle', an instrument used in the breaking of flax."
"Thar's more in the Man than thar is in the Land".
"Jones" designates Jones County, Ga., one of the counties adjoining Bibb County, in which Macon is located.
The Jacquerie. A Fragment.