"But where have you left your left ear?" Clement asked, and he had that man too. "Aye," said the landlord, showing his front teeth all of gold. If he might be accommodated for the night. He asked at the next inn, which was equally glittering and bright, indeed he could not distinguish them in his memory from one year's end to the next, Like all innocent men, he was proud of having one thing in the world he could be sharp about.Īnd the landlord was forced to admit that he had left the ear pinned to a market cross in Kentucky, for the horse stealing he did.Ĭlement turned and went on up the road, and the storm was worse. "But where have you left your right ear?" said Clement, pointing to the vacancy. "Aye," replied the landlord, who brushed at a long mustache-an Englishman.
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It was all lighted up and full of the sounds of singing.Ĭlement entered and went straight to the landlord and inquired, "Have you a bed for the night, where I will not be disturbed till morning?" Holding his bag of gold tight in his hand, Clement made for the first inn he saw under the hill. There were sounds of rushing and flying, from the flourish of carriages hurrying through the streets after dark, from the bellowing throats of the flatboatmen,Īnd from the wilderness itself, which lifted and drew itself in the wind, and pressed its savage breath even closer to the little galleries of Rodney, and caused a bell to turn over in one of the steeples, and shook the fort and dropped River and bluff gave off alike a leaf-green light, and from the water's edge the red torches lining the Landing-under-the-HillĪnd climbing the bluff to the town stirred and blew to the left and right. The river was covered with foam, and against the landing the boats strained in the waves and strained again.
In Rodney he had a horse stabled against his return, and he meant to spend the night there at an inn, for the way home through the wilderness was beset withĪs his foot touched shore, the sun sank into the river the color of blood, and at once a wind sprang up and covered the sky with black, yellow, and green clouds the size of whales, which moved across the face of the moon. In safety, his tobacco had been sold for a fair price to the King's men. It was the close of day when a boat touched Rodney's Landing on the Mississippi River and Clement Musgrove, an innocent planter, with a bag of gold and many presents, disembarked.
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