Starboard and port: the "Nettie" along shore (1876)
Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes), 1833-1902 · New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 174
d to the barn,whence he soon emerged, bringing a woman apparentlyforty years of age. She came with great hesitation anddiffidence, and only after repeated assertions on thepart of Nimrod that nobody would hurt her. Hehad found her hidden away by crouching behind twocows. She was a pure-blooded… … a knot, and partly danglingover her shoulders, wascoal-black. Her eyes re-sembled two lumps of bur-nished Lehigh. Her dress—if the few tattered arti-cles which failed to concealher person could be calledby so respectable a name—consisted of a variety ofremnants which had seenbetter days, but which…
