. Highways and byways of the South. prey. Every store was sup-plied with several chairs, and these were seldom with-out occupants in good weather. The favorite positionwas just outside the door, where, sociably and com-fortably, the loiterers could observe whatever wasgoing on. Up a steep hill just east of the village was the Bap-tist church and the schoolhouse, the former painted,the latter colored only by the sun and rain ; yet theschoolhouse was a good-sized building, as it had needto be, to accommodate its hundred pupils. School be-gan in November and closed in April, and was incharge of a
. Highways and byways of the South. prey. Every store was sup-plied with several chairs, and these were seldom with-out occupants in good weather. The favorite positionwas just outside the door, where, sociably and com-fortably, the loiterers could observe whatever wasgoing on. Up a steep hill just east of the village was the Bap-tist church and the schoolhouse, the former painted,the latter colored only by the sun and rain ; yet theschoolhouse was a good-sized building, as it had needto be, to accommodate its hundred pupils. School be-gan in November and closed in April, and was incharge of a man teacher, spoken of as the professor,and a lady assistant. The children were at their tasksfor seven hours daily, or, to quote my landlady, Theschool takes em up at eight in the morning and turnsem out at four in the evening. Most of the chil-dren brought their dinners, and the noon hour wasknown as playtime. There was, of course, a recessin each session, but I call it a watering time, said H 98 Highways and Byways of the South. A Schoolroom Corner my landlady, because they spend most of the fifteenminutes around the schoolhouse well, drinking. This well was behind the school building under alittle open shed, and the water was drawn up fromthe depths with a bucket and windlass. On the hill close by the church was the soil was full of stones, and whenever a new gravewas dug quite a heap of them would be thrown out,and there they lay until the persons most concernedfound it convenient to cart them away ; and thats agood long time, was my landladys comment. Ishould think the ghostes of them that air buried wouldcome aroun an nudge up their relatives about themstones. Among the Georgia Crackers 99 The cemetery was unfenced, but this condition wasto be remedied. The ladies of the community weremaking a quilt, for which they proposed there shouldbe a raffle. Certain members of the church said araffle was no better than gambling. Others deemed itentirely innocent, and
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