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Title: Diamonds in the rough, acres and acres of diamonds
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Snead, L. U. (Littleton Upshur)
Subjects: Golden Industrial Institute (N.C.) Appalachians (People)
Publisher: Golden, N.C., The Golden Industrial Institute
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A HOME TYPICAL OF THE BETTER CLASS OF COVE-DWELLERS.

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their veins was from ancestors whose lifeblood had made
wet many another battlefield in the cause of freedom.
On the blackened and unpapered and unceiled walls of
this log cabin were pasted a few old, old pictures such as
" The Mill," " Lincoln and His Cabinet," " Washington
on Horseback," " The Four Seasons," and others of a
similar nature. But they were dark and soiled and almost
beyond recognition. Doubtless they had been gathered
from some sale of old property in a well-to-do farming
community or had been presented with the compliments of
the country merchant far away. But they showed a
little love for the higher and more refined things of life
and were better there than not. In this one room the
family of several slept, cooked, and ate. The absence of
half a log in one side of the house served for extra light.
At nights and in stormy weather it was closed by a rough
board hung on hinges made of leather taken from piece
sof worn-out boots. The fireplace at which the family
warmed themselves and before which their meals
were cooked was full five feet wide and almost as deep.

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