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Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
Subjects: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ergone would be light comparedwith the fate they must submit to in the future. Fortunately for the purpose of our fugitives, the set-tlements, whether towns or villages, in that part of thecountry, were few and far between. The residencesof the planters were also distant from each other andfew in number, and the ravines and swamps whichabound there, while in many respects disagreeable anddangerous lurking spots, were still the safest refugesfor hunted men. The wilder the country, the betterit promised to Glazier and his comrade fleeing fortheir lives. Their greatest fear was the dreaded blood-hound. Our friends knew they could defeat most of thedevices of human ingenuity in tracking them, but theywere apprehensive that the instinct of the brutes, whicha depraved humanity had enlisted in its service, mightrender abortive all their plans and precautions. Theydid their best, however, to baffle their canine foes, andnightfall found them hurrying forward on the Lexing-ton Court-house Road.
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0F o?^. P* \ CHAPTER XX. THE ESCAPE FROM COLUMBIA. Mysterious voices.—I reckon deys Yankees.—uWho comesthere?—The Lady of the Manor.—A weird spectacle.—Thestruggle through the swamp.—A reflection on Southern swampsin general.-Tired natures sweet restorer.n THE attention of the fugitives was suddenly arrestedby the sound of human voices in their imme-diate rear. It occurred to both at once to discover asquickly as possible if the speakers were white or black,and they accordingly listened in the hope of learningtheir color by their dialect. This was by no meanseasy, the vernacular of the poorer class of whites inthat section of the country very much resembling theordinary dialect of the negroes. The comrades, how-ever, concluded to risk a halt until the strangers cameap. Glazier then saluted them with the remark thatit was a pleasant night, with the view of drawingthem out before committing himself. Indeed tis!was the reply. This failed to convey the desired in-formation as

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