By a previous arrangement Mose was to be the honored driver of the
carriage, to take them to the railway station. Never was there a
prouder or happier negro. He showed the importance of his duty in every
turn of his body. He was dressed in a new suit of clothes, and a tall
silk hat ornamented his woolly head. He held his whip and lines like a
master of horse.
Some fond good-byes, a few tears like April showers with the sun
shining, a crack of the whip, and Velox and Prince are off on the happy
journey.
So we leave them as with
"Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts to beat as one,"
they set out on their life work.
"We have heard that our hero became a mighty preacher, whose praise was
in all the churches. His fields of labor widened with the years. His
reputation went before him, and he was known in many States as an
original and marvelous genius, but to us he will ever be remembered as
The Kentucky Ranger.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Kentucky Ranger, by Edward T. Curnick
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