20/29 Mountainous and hilly country up there, but good and cultivated beautifully. Those Pennsylvania Germans, Harry, beat us all hollow at farming. I'm beginning to think that slaves are not worth owning. They ruin our land." "Which may be so," interrupted Langdon, "but we're not the kind of people to give them up because a lot of other people order us to do it." "Shut up, Tom," exclaimed Harry. "Let the captain go on with his story." "We went on around the Union rear, rode another hundred miles after leaving Chambersburg, coming to a place called Hyattstown, near which we cut across McClellan's communications with Washington. |