Fisher's River (North Carolina) scenes and characters . ket ina mile of the gin-screw. Merchant. Hold still, friend; we mer-chants always deduct a certain amount forthe tare, Avhich is to indemnify us againstloss by the attachment of extraneous matterto the bales. 246 FISHERS RIVER SKETCHES. One-bale. Bull and Injens! The devilyou do! By lioky! thar aint no tar nurany o yer extranus matter on it. Its jistas clean as tlie old omans bed-quilt. Youcant swindle this boy; hes walked toomany chalk-lines fur that. Merchant. I tell you, friend, the taremust be deducted. Every thing in trademust be mad
Fisher's River (North Carolina) scenes and characters . ket ina mile of the gin-screw. Merchant. Hold still, friend; we mer-chants always deduct a certain amount forthe tare, Avhich is to indemnify us againstloss by the attachment of extraneous matterto the bales. 246 FISHERS RIVER SKETCHES. One-bale. Bull and Injens! The devilyou do! By lioky! thar aint no tar nurany o yer extranus matter on it. Its jistas clean as tlie old omans bed-quilt. Youcant swindle this boy; hes walked toomany chalk-lines fur that. Merchant. I tell you, friend, the taremust be deducted. Every thing in trademust be made ivhole, and done up accordingto rule. One-bale. Jubiter Ammon! Mebbe youmean that my bale is tore, by you sayin itmust be made ivhole. Dem it! whars yereyes, man? Thar aint a hole in it, nur atored place. Now what you got to say, ? Merchant. This much: heres your mon-ey. You are the tightest customer Ive runup against lately. One-bale. You mout a knowed that efyoud a bin smart, and jist a peeped at myphysmahogany. Ive gin ye one more TARB AN1> TKET. HAM RACHEL, OF ALABAMA, 249 XXIII.—HAM RACHEL, OF ALABAMA. EuFAULA, Barbour County, Alabama, is abeautiful city, on the banks of the deep-chan-neled and rapid Chattahoochee, and in 1845,the time of the incidents of my story, wasthe mart of commerce for Barbour, Pike,Coffee, Dale, and Henry counties in Alaba-ma, and of several counties contiguous inGeorgia. These Alabama counties were mostly set-tled by a poor, plain, hardy, robust, and hon-est people, many of them wholly they cared for was to make buckle andtongue meet by raising stock, a few bales ofcotton, and a little corn for bread. Stock—cow stock—being the chief commodity, theywere denominated cow counties. Now, mind, these were the first settlers. Eufaula was a great city with them, like Paris, London, and New York to most folks. When a squatter, as some naughtily call- L 2 250 FISHERS RIVER SKETCHES. ed them, carried his one, two, o
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