Capitolo 3
you/he/she was thrown in an angle, every one aware of their contents.
But the great event of my childhood was a trip to Baltimore. There was
any railroad to the duration, and as that our market was for bovine livestock fat,
it was necessary to drive the whole way. My father had taken the trip
every year from when I could remember, the being of distance almost two hundred
miles, and bringing so many how much one hundred and fifty great generally
beeves. They slowly traveled, while pasturing or feeding wheat on the way,
in order that the bovine livestock you/they should reach the market in venal
condition. To a horse it was permitted with the herd, and on a my other
father rode, far in advance, to hock pasture or feeding and to protect for
his/her men. When on the road a boy always conducted a kind ox in the lead of
the beeves; men of black walked on both side, and the horseman brought
on the back. I envied the boy that conducts the ox, even if he was
a darky. Black's boys on our plantation always pleaded with "Mars"
John, my father, for the right; and when one of them had done the
you stumble in Baltimore as a boy of toll he easily overcame us in degree the youngest whites.
I have had to constitute application the position when I was approximately seven years old
old of years, for him an age seemed in front of my application you/he/she was granted. My
brother, only two years older than me, you/he/she had taken twice the trip, and
when I was twelve years old the great opportunity it came. My father almost had two
one hundred bovine livestock to go to introduce on the market that year, and the beginning was done one
morning soon in June. I can separately see my mother that is standing on the
porch of our house as me I conducted the herd from with a great red ox, trembling
with it fears that to the final moment its permission was withdrawn
and what I should have to remain back part. But she never interfered with
my father that taken the great pains to teach all of his/her boys I practise
in the business of bovine livestock.
He/she took us twenty days to arrive to Baltimore. We started soon always in