Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 45: what you’re looking at

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A VISIT FROM THE BRIDAL PARTY. 39 Tne shining faces of the urchins shone still more with grease and delight. The girls shrieked and giggled, and the beaux kept them shrieking and giggling. Grotesque, wild, uncouth, like the creatures themselves, was their mirth; but it was sunny as the sky, beaming with good-humor, broad and pleasant, good to look at—not a touch of malice, not a sign of quarreling, not a case of downright drunkenness. Oblivi- ~ ous to the scars of the past and the toils of the future, these children of the sun basked in the pleasure of the present. It was nearly dark as the feast was finished; the young people were too full of supper to care about recommencing the dance immediately; there were plenty of remnants to make out a second feast when appetite should demand. As the twilight deepened, the fire was made to burn the more brightly ; far up in the bright blue heaven the Star of Beth- lehem glittered over the wild, fantastic group, as hopefully OE of more refined enjoyment. | Box snvej thtd' thie MaRS” earn “of Hight, chased by stranger shadows. Birds and beasts, in wonder and trouble, flitted deeper into the recesses of the wood, in search of their accustomed repose. Quaint stories were told, . and listened to with open mouths, and big, credulous eyes. It was at this hour that the party was honored by a visit mistress to a ball in the evening, and could not be spared except through the day. She and Hyperion were neither of them with the party now, having other duties to perform. But they had stood up at the ceremony, and had helped eat the cake and drink the wine furnished for the occasion. — All giggling and radiant, the new-married pair, attended by a group of house-servants, came to receive the congratu- Eomicbooks: com ~ ey ~ se