Curious, but Miss Woodburn isn't at all your idea of a Southern girl.

She's got lots of go; she's never idle a minute; she keeps the old gentleman in first-class shape, and she don't believe a bit in the slavery solution of the labor problem; says she's glad it's gone, and if it's anything like the effects of it, she's glad it went before her time.

No, sir, she's as full of snap as the liveliest kind of a Northern girl.

None of that sunny Southern languor you read about." "I suppose the typical Southerner, like the typical anything else, is pretty difficult to find," said March.

"But perhaps Miss Woodburn represents the new South.