tapestry picture. It was a large subject--The bard Ossian playing his
harp to Malvino. Ossian seated on the front of some brown rocks,
Malvino seated before him, her hands folded across his knees, full of
tender regard for the gentle musician. This work was her pastime and
recreation. She selected the worsteds and worked her needle out and
in, shading and coloring and outlining with the skill of an artist in
paints. Three years she worked on this picture, almost to the end of
the war, almost as long as Penelope worked on her task awaiting
Ulysses' return.

In the meantime Jaftray paid short visits to his family and
made them as comfortable for periods of his absence as he had it in his
power to do. Texas was too far away to be the theatre of battles
during the conflict, so that no real harassing of the families by the
invading Northern soldiers took place, but her people suffered
privations and danger just as much as her sister states and perhaps
more after the war was over and the reconstruction period set in.



In 1870 the town of Jefferson was thrown into a panic by the
murder one night of a "carpet-bagger." Carpet-bagger was a name given to
those men who came into Southern towns after the war to stir up the
people, and particularly the darkies, against the authorities. It was
necessary for Washington to send troops to Jefferson to restore order.

A stockade was built up on the hill near the new home of
Jaffray, for he had found his first little house too small for his
growing family, and into this stockade some of Jefferson's prominent
citizens were thrown and kept until they could prove their innocence of