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HISTORTÓO GARDENS WVORPUNÁATROETNIA
The slave quarters, which always prove of interest to visitors,
lie some distance from the house, and the stories told of the old
darkies who have dwelt in them would fill a volume of eighteenth
century lore. To the right may be seen a spring-house sheltering
a small pond of bubbling water, and farther on, racing merrily
towards the river, runs the old Cool Spring from which Patrick
Henry lifted many a gourd filled with fresh, cool water.
Walking about the grounds in the sunshine and in the shadows
of the trees, one can almost visualize the scenes of former days,
when the patriot, with his family and friends, trod these same box¬
bordered paths.
ELISE THOMSON CLARK.
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