Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "The 'letters' here offered ... appeared some years ago in the Sunday issues of the now defunct Richmond Dispatch and in the Richmond Times-dispatch."--Pref E pluribus unum.--His tongue frozen.--Handed lemons to hated enemy.--A terrible disease.--"All day meetin's" in the country.--Merry whirl of Cackling Springs.--Masculine reflections on chicken salad.--How she roasted the Queen of the Adriatic.--"Deniggerization" and what it means to husbands.--Juvenile thirst at the exposition.--Two awful events.--The amphibious Queen Bee and her "rainy days."--Through old Louisa's vine-fringed gateways.--The Queen Bee and her dear man's garden.--Hanging pictures