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ec zizéétő ———— op Kt B. BEER TAMES =—= Tuckahoe only reinforced the impression . . . that Virginia writers, through ignorance, probably, have greatly exaggerated the social splendors of the ‘Old Dominion.’ ”’ - And yet, William Ellery Channing, who was a tutor at Luckahoe for two years, speaks with pride of the Virginians: “I blush for my own people,” he says, ‘“‘when I compare the selfish prudence of.a Yankee with the generous confidence of a Virginian. ... [here is one single trait which attaches me to the people I live with more than all the virtues of New England. They love money less than we do. Their patriotism is not tied to their purse strings.” An interesting feature of Tuckahoe is found in the three-foot brick walk, which encircles the house and leads to the outside kitchen, over one hundred feet away, and still in use. The architecture of the house permits courtyards upon the east and west fronts, and, upon either side of these, clumps of boxwood grow as they did years ago, though unrelated as to family and newer as to age. Over the west entrance a gnarled catalpa leans to uphold a crimson rose vine, which makes it look "all rose-tree. " Honeysuckle is banked against the brick foundation on the north side; lilies—Hemerocallis fulva—against the south. And to this wing, climbing vigorously to the second-floor windows, cling multiflora, microphylla and pink rambler roses. Nestling against the south steps, an old, red rambler reaches up to the paneled ceiling, which marks this portico as one of the most interesting in the country. The present kitchen was, in plantation days, the Master's ofhce, the original kitchen being the small brick building in the rear; and this still has its swinging crane and old Dutch oven. [he quarters are still at Tuckahoe, and in excellent preservation. [he smokehouse and toolhouse remain as they were, but the icehouse and the weaving-room have gone. Flanking the office upon the east is the inconspicuous little building where Thomas Jefferson went to school. Peter Jefterson, father of the second president, in compliance with the dying request of Colonel Randolph, his wife’s kinsman, moved to Tuckahoe in [117]
