"I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The house was qaint, with clapboards running up and down, neatly trimmed, and there were five rooms, a tiny porch, a rosy front yard, and unbelievably delicious strawberries in the rear. A SOuth Carolinian, lately come to the Berkshire Hills, owned all this--tall, thin, and black, with golden earrings, and given to religious trances. We were his transcient tenants for the time."
"From the age of five until i was sixteen i went to school on the same grounds,--down a lane, into a widened yard, with a big choke-cherry tree and two buildings, wood and brick. Here i got acquainted with my world, and soon had my criterions of judgement."
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