. Highways and byways of the South. o this mortar or rice mill the rice was put, andthen was crushed with a wooden pestle. That done,it was transferred to a shallow basket called the ricefanner and shaken free of hulls. The rice sheaveswere stored in a barn about six feet square along withthe cow peas and blade fodder — the last beingbundles of corn leaves pulled off while green fromthe stalks standing in the field. Adjoining the barnwas a pig-pen of rails that barely allowed the porkerroom to turn around, and beside the pig-pen was acart of aboriginal pattern with wheels made of soliddisks of
. Highways and byways of the South. o this mortar or rice mill the rice was put, andthen was crushed with a wooden pestle. That done,it was transferred to a shallow basket called the ricefanner and shaken free of hulls. The rice sheaveswere stored in a barn about six feet square along withthe cow peas and blade fodder — the last beingbundles of corn leaves pulled off while green fromthe stalks standing in the field. Adjoining the barnwas a pig-pen of rails that barely allowed the porkerroom to turn around, and beside the pig-pen was acart of aboriginal pattern with wheels made of soliddisks of wood sawed off the end of a large log. The family raised cotton and corn as their chiefcrops, but I noticed they also had considerable patchesof sweet potatoes and peanuts. Each peanut vinespread out in a close network over a circle three feetin diameter. Some of the vines had been pulled andturned roots upward to allow the peanuts that clung tothem to ripen and dry. Later these nuts would be 276 Highways and Byways of the South. Digging Peanuts picked off and those that remained in the ground crows like peanuts and had been making regularraids on the patch. And while they were gettingthe peanuts, said the woman, one ole stay upin the top of that daid tree there, and, soon as he seeanybody cominV Awk ! he cry, and away they all now we made this scarecrow yo see hyar. We The Cotton Patch in Harvest Time 277 jus set up a stake an* put a hat on top, an to makethe rest of the man, we fasten together these New YorkSunday papers my son in Brooklyn send us ; an sincethat the crows come an set on that daid tree an havetheir powwows, but they doan dare come no see this stick out at one side ? That is his gun,and this piece of paper hung on it by a string is hisshot-pouch. Yes, those Sunday papers from NewYork make the bes scarecrow what ever there was. Ruthie and John, the womans children, were brightand attractive, and they were gentle and polite, no
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