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Brothers. Very credulous and superstitious. Free negroes.
Horace Duley
Janitor.
Aunt Phillis
Gentle, sweet tempered, intelligent cook. Everybody liked Aunt Phillis.
Tilly Mink
Chickens were afraid of her, and roosted high when she was about.
Sue Benson
A good natured, lazy housemaid.
Becky Williams
A faithful nurse.
Sister Chew
A dairymaid.
Mammy
Good as gold.
Nancy Young
A fortune teller.
Uncle David
Who loved his mule.
“OTWELL.”
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Otwell was originally an estate of some 2,000 acres, situated on a beautiful peninsula, the land rich and productive, and the forest would have charmed Silvanus. Here and there on the shores of the inlets grew majestic oaks, black walnut, and immemorial elms. The peach, pear, apricot, fig and other fruit trees flourished, and would have charmed Eve, and the Cart House apples, Adam.
The forest was entirely of lofty pines—many of the trees so large that one tree made a canoe; they were made and used principally by the servants and were in evidence almost everywhere. The forest had very little undergrowth; the ground was carpeted and cushioned with pine fallings, and the huntsmen were delighted when reynard was started there. The murmuring of the wind in the lofty pine tops, the tongueing of the hounds “like sweet bells jangled out of tune,” delighted the hearts of the Tilghmans, Chamberlains, Dickinsons, Tripps, Robins, Lloyds and many others that followed the hounds, horsemen of the first-flight type. The hunt over, there was “The feast of reason and the flow of soul.”