DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY so closely conThough he was a Northern man, he was the when neighbors began nected with the South that he had been to as to them he drill, a helped troop training One fun. of lots had day I tell a military school. They was over, you this just as Harry told it when the drill
they were having a feast in the woods, a splendid affair, with all sorts of good things sent by the Charleston ladies, wild turkey and plum-cake and wine, and every man with After the feast his body-servant standing behind him.
one of
his
friends
I
am
not sure
if
it
was
'Powder"
took him aside.
"Corkie" Huger "Harry," he said, "your interests are all in the North, and Vhere the purse is there the heart should be. A boat the last to goes from Charleston to-night and it may be I was in love with leave the port; you'd better take it. don't get a knife and your mother, so look out for yourself, in your back !" Strange to say, Harry took this advice a thing he was never known to do before or since and got the last boat from Charleston. As he was going up the gang-plank he happened to see Miss Sarah Matilda Grayson, a young cousin of my mother's, and "she looked so pretty and rosy" that he proposed then and there, with a "Tilly, will you marry me?" which she found agreeable. She was the daughter of the Honorable William Gray-
Whaley
or
son, of Charleston.
(I
believe Mattie, as
we always
called
her, came near being named Gardenia Garden, after our relation Doctor Garden and the \vell-known flower named in his honor by Linnaeus.) Mr. Grayson approved highly of slavery, but was strongly opposed to secession. Unfortunately, though he was a Union man, he did not trust in our success in arms and invested all his money in Confed-
erate bonds, and, of course, lost
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it.
His theories about