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Vandemark’s Folly

CHAPTER VI
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This statement of course won't apply to the fancy cows which are high-power milk machines, and need to be packed in cotton, and kept in satin-lined stalls; but to such cows as farmers have, and always will have, it does apply.
I was sorry to leave the Prestons, they were such whole-souled, earnest people; and before I did leave them I was a full-fledged Abolitionist so far as belief was concerned.

I never did become active, however, in spiriting slaves from one station to another of the U.G.

Railway.
I drove out to the highway, and turning my prow to the west, I joined again in the stream of people swarming westward.

The tide had swollen in the week during which I had laid by at the Prestons'.

The road was rutted, poached deep where wet and beaten hard where dry, or pulverized into dust by the stream of emigration.


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