PARADISE PLANTATION
"THE SPLENDID SADDLE-HOSS."
"Of course you will live at the hotel?"
"Not at all. The idea of leaving one's work three times a day to dress for meals!"
"May I ask, then, where you do propose to reside?"
"In the cottage on the place, to be sure."
The Pessimist thrust his hands into his pockets and gave utterance to a long, low whistle.
"You don't believe it? Come over with us and look at it, and let us tell you our plans."
"That negro hut, Hope? You never can be in earnest?"