(Back yard of the former home of
General Stephen D. Lee.)]
[Illustration: Her hands looked very white and small against his dark
coat. He was gazing down at them, his features distorted by a shockingly
sentimental smile]
[Illustration: As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river,
so the visitor's thoughts flow down to the great spectacular,
mischievous, dominating stream]
[Illustration: Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other
buildings of a more self-respecting character, and, far off, the cupola
of Vicksburg's old stone court house]
[Illustration: Vicksburg negroes. Whether drowsing in the sun, doing a
little stroke of work, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were
upon the whole as cheerful and comical a lot of people as I ever saw]
[Illustration: In some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted,
advertised by large catfish dangling from posts and railing]
[Illustration: The old Klein house, standing amid lawns and
old-fashioned gardens on the bluff overlooking the river]
[Illustration: Citizens go at midday to the square where they buy
popcorn for the squirrels and pigeons--Memphis]
[Illustration: Hanging in the air above the middle of the stream]
[Illustration: These small parks give Savannah a quality which
differentiates it from all other American cities]
[Illustration: The Thomas House in Franklin Square in which Lafayette
was entertained]
[Illustration: You will see them having tea, and dancing under the palm
fronds of the cocoanut grove, when the electric lights begin to glow in
the luminous semi-tropical twilight]
[Illustration: Cocktail hour at The Breakers]
[Illustration: Nowhere is the sand more like a deep warm dust of yellow
gold; nowhere is there a margin of the earth so splashed with spots of
brilliant color; nowhere is water less like water, more like a flowing
waste of liquid emeralds and sapphires edged with a thousand gleaming
flouncing strings of pearls]
[Illustration: The couples on the platform were "ragging," their
shoulders working like the walking-beams of side-wheelers]
[Illustration: Harness held together by that especial Providence which
watches over negro mendings]
[Illustration: It was a very jolly fair, with the usual lot of barkers
and the usual gaping crowd]
[Illustration: The mysterious old Absinthe House, founded 1799]
[Illustration: St.
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