. Highways and byways of the South. doublerow of seats, each seat simply an unplaned board longenough to accommodate half a dozen children. Asmall table and two chairs completed the was a ceiling of loose boards laid on somesagging joists. I could barely stand upright without The Cotton Patch in Harvest Time 287 hitting the boards, and to pass beneath the joists I hadto stoop. Into this dingy httle room forty childrencrowded, and it was even more closely packed when theSpiritual Union Association met. The road to the river led through the woods for alarge portion of the di
. Highways and byways of the South. doublerow of seats, each seat simply an unplaned board longenough to accommodate half a dozen children. Asmall table and two chairs completed the was a ceiling of loose boards laid on somesagging joists. I could barely stand upright without The Cotton Patch in Harvest Time 287 hitting the boards, and to pass beneath the joists I hadto stoop. Into this dingy httle room forty childrencrowded, and it was even more closely packed when theSpiritual Union Association met. The road to the river led through the woods for alarge portion of the distance. The tall trees weremany of them draped with moss, there was a multitudeof sweet and delicate blossoms, autumn berries wereabundant, and the foliage and tangled vines grew witha rankness unknown in the North. Nor does theNorth ever hear such concerts of thronging insects, allbusy with their musical saws and files and and then I would meet one of those long-facedcaricatures of a hog known as a razorback, or some. A Pause on the Road 288 Highways and Byways of the South cattle with ears mutilated to indicate their ownership,and at intervals the road would be obstructed by agate. Mr. Lemairs plantation home was a large and im-posing colonial mansion of brick, standing amid someenormous live-oaks, on a knoll that commanded a fineview of the broad marshlands along the river. Onthese marshes the rice was raised, and the planter hadto keep up nine miles of levees. The land wasploughed with mules wearing broad shoes of wood ontheir hoofs to keep them from sinking into the was the harvest month, and then the rice-fieldswere thronged with workers who came from twentymiles around. The reaping was done with sickles, andthe rice had to be carried by hand to the embankmentswhere it was loaded on carts. Often the negroes hadto work in mud up to their knees. They were con-sidered immune to malaria. To a white man suchlabor would soon have proved fatal. All day
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