To-day the loyal and generous remember only what he was, and charitably forget

Thence, we drove a few miles across a swamp, along a raised shell road,

with a canal on one hand and a dense wood on the other; and here and there,

in the distance, a ragged and angular-limbed and moss-bearded cypress,

top standing out, clear cut against the sky, and as quaint of form as the

apple-trees in Japanese pictures--such was our course and the surroundings

of it. There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along

in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank,