SOME years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, advised a change of climate. I shared, f

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Chesnutt wrote the collection's first story, "The Gophered Grapevine," in 1887 and published it in The Atlantic Monthly. Later that year, Chesnutt traveled to B