They acknowledge it to be the great State in education; they point to a pretty village and say, 'Almost as neat as a New England village.' "Savannah, April 15....

To-day we left town at ten o'clock for a drive in any direction that we liked.

Mr.F.and I went in a buggy, and Miss S.cantered behind us on her horse.
"The road that we took led to some rice plantations ten miles out of the city.

Our path was ornamented by the live-oaks, cedar trees, the dogwood, and occasionally the mistletoe, and enlivened sometimes by the whistle of the mocking-bird.

Down low by the wheels grew the wild azalea and the jessamine.