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Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis
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acquaintances.

"I suppose you girls are looking forward to the corn-shucking to-night?"
Ralph asked, with his pleasant smile, as he held Sylvia's chair for her
to take her seat at the table, while Philip performed the same service
for Grace.

"Oh, my dear boy! You have betrayed Flora's surprise," said Mrs. Hayes.
"She had planned not to let the girls know about it until nightfall."

"What is a 'corn-shucking'?" questioned Sylvia; for she had always lived
in a city and did not know much about farm or plantation affairs.

"Shall I tell her, Flora?" questioned Ralph, laughingly.

"No! No, indeed! Wait, Sylvia, then it will be a surprise after all,"
responded Flora.

Sylvia smiled happily. She was sure that this visit was going to be even
more delightful than when she had been Flora's guest in the early
spring. There seemed to be so many things to do on a plantation, she
thought.

The young people were all hungry, and enjoyed the roasted duck, with the
sweet-potatoes and the grape jelly. Beside these there were hot biscuit
and delicious custards. Sylvia had finished her custard when two maids
brought a large tray into the room, and in a moment the little girls
exclaimed in admiring delight; for the tray contained two doves, made of
blanc-mange, resting in a nest of fine, gold-colored shreds of candied
orange-peel, and an iced cake in the shape of a fort, with the palmetto
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