Among the Pines

He was accompanied by his body-servant",Jim", a fine specimen of the genus darky, about thirty years of age, and born and reared in his master's family. The "Colonel" was a highly cultivated and intelligent gentleman, and during this journey a friendship sprung up between us—afterward kept alive by a regular correspondence—which led him, with his wife and daughter, and the man Jim, to my house on his next visit at the North, one year later.