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Excerpt from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches In the year Of our Lord 1840, when a negro-specu lator Of a Sportive turn Of mind reached the little village Of Hillsborough on his way to the Mississippi region, with a caravan of likely negroes Of both sexes, he found much to interest him. In that day and at that time there were a number of young men in the village who had not bound themselves over to repentance for the various misdeeds Of the flesh. To these young men the negro-speculator (major Framp ton was his name) proceeded to address himself. He was a Virginian, he 'declared; and, to prove the statement, he referred all the festively inclined young men Of Hillsborough to a barrel Of peach-brandy in one of his covered wagons. In the minds of these young men there was'less doubt in regard to the age and quality of the brandy than there was in regard to the negro-trader's birthplace. Major Frampton might or might not have been born in the Old Dominion, - that was a matter for consideration and inquiry, - but there could be no question as to the mellow pungency of the peach-brandy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.