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266 own; and instead of remaining in one position, she is always going higher.

The following week I was called on to go seven miles above Covington Ky., to comb a bride there. When I was sent for I had a previous engagement, but promised, if they could bring me home again by seven in the evening, I would go. So when they sent a carriage and fast horses, I went; and I must confess, I was a good deal disappointed, for I expected to find it about such a place as I once went to about eleven miles above Covington.

Some few years ago some ladies called on me in a very elegant carriage, engaged me to go there and comb and shampoo their heads. On my arriving at the place, I found the grounds and the house itself in a sad, reckless state; the grounds seemed as if at one time there might have been a fence around them, as there was here and there a picket, while in the house there were bare floors. Silver goblets were scattered here and there. At one end of the room was a piano, but there were no curtains to the windows. It was altogether a peculiar place. From the conversation of the ladies, I found they had received but a limited education. When they engaged me, I thought it strange they should give me such a high price merely to shampoo their heads, but when I got there, I found one of them was to be married, and I was more than astonished to see three such elegant looking ladies, and two such elegant gentlemen in so queer a place. While the ladies were getting ready for me, I walked round a little, and on coming to the dairy, I found three or four little boys, black and white, with long straws poked in through the crevices or holes in the