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    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908
    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908
    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908
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    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908
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    Thomas Nelson Page

    Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family’s wealthy lineage—both the Nelson and Page families were First Families of Virginia—Page was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page’s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page’s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story “Marse Chan.” Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.

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      The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 - Thomas Nelson Page

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      Title: The Long Hillside

             A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia

                    1908

      Author: Thomas Nelson Page

      Release Date: November 16, 2007 [EBook #23514]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONG HILLSIDE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE LONG HILLSIDE

      A CHRISTMAS HARE-HUNT IN OLD VIRGINIA

      By Thomas Nelson Page

      Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1908

      Copyright, 1891, 1904, 1906

      Contents

      I

      There do not seem to be as many hares now as there used to be when I was a boy. Then the old fields and branch-bottoms used to be full of them. They were peculiarly our game; I mean we used to consider that they belonged to us boys. They were rather scorned by the gentlemen, by which was meant the grown-up gentlemen, who shot partridges over the pointers, and only picked up a hare when she got in their way. And the negroes used to catch them in traps or gums, which were traps made of hollow gum-tree logs. But we boys were the hare-hunters. They were our property from our childhood; just as much, we considered, as Bruno and Don, the beautiful crack pointers, with their brown eyes and satiny ears and coats, were the gentlemen's.

      The negroes used to set traps all the Fall and Winter, and we, with the natural tendency of boys to imitate whatever is wild and primitive, used to set traps also. To tell the truth, however, the hares appeared to have a way of going into the negroes' traps, rather than into ours, and the former caught many to our one.

      Even now, after many years, I can remember the delight of the frosty mornings; the joy with which we used to peep through the little panes of the dormer-windows at the white

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