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16 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS.
and in pone, they disappeared in easy digestion. Taken alone,
with vile coffee, I may ask, with deep feeling, who is sufficient
for these things ?
At one of our stopping-places was a tame crow, hopping about
in the most familiar way among the horses' heels. When we
were ready to start, the driver, taking the reins, said to it, " Now
then, Charley; look out for yourself, we're going off." The bird
turned its wise head to one side, gave a sagacious wink with one
of its bright bead eyes, as much as to say, "Do you look out for
yourself, never mind me."
Near another we passed a husking bee-a circle of neighbors,
tossing rapidly bright ears of corn into a central heap, with jokes
and good cheer; near by, a group of idle boys looking on from
a fence, and half-a-dozen horses tied around. The whole a pic-
turesque study, which, with the knowing crow added, I would
like to have preserved on a better medium than one of the
fading tablets of memory.
Saddles, it was easy to observe, were very much more used
here than at the North, and I saw, not unfrequently, saddle-bags
across them, which had been as traditional in my previous ex-
perience as the use of bucklers or bows. Not long after, my
legs grew to that familiarity with them as to be as much aston-
ished to find themselves free from their pressure for a transient
ride, as they now would have been to stride them for the first
time.
LEXINGTON.
We'had had glowing descriptions of Lexington, and expected
much. Had we come from the South we should have been
charmed. Coming from the East we were disappointed in the
involuntary comparison. Of all Southern towns there are scarce
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Olmsted, Frederick Law. Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix, book, January 1, 1857; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2407/m1/51/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.