. Success with small fruits . ntral points crateswere piled up, and men known as buyers received the round quartbaskets from the trays of the pickers, while wide platform carts, drawnby mules, were bringing empty crates and carrying away those that hadbeen filled. Methods of Culture in the South. 125 Along the road that skirted the field, and a;gainst a pretty backgroundof half-grown pines, motley forms and groups were moving to and fro,some seeking the buyers with full trays, others returning to theirstations in the field with a new supply of empty baskets. Some of thepickers were drifting aw
. Success with small fruits . ntral points crateswere piled up, and men known as buyers received the round quartbaskets from the trays of the pickers, while wide platform carts, drawnby mules, were bringing empty crates and carrying away those that hadbeen filled. Methods of Culture in the South. 125 Along the road that skirted the field, and a;gainst a pretty backgroundof half-grown pines, motley forms and groups were moving to and fro,some seeking the buyers with full trays, others returning to theirstations in the field with a new supply of empty baskets. Some of thepickers were drifting away to other fields, a few seeking work late in theday ; more, bargaining with the itinerant venders of pies, made to last allsummer if not sold, gingerbread, pones, and other nondescript edibles,at which an ostrich would hesitate in well-grounded fear of indigestion,but for which sable and semi-sable pickers exchange their berry tickets and pennies as eagerly as we buyVienna rolls. Two or three ba-rouches and buggies that had. brought visitors were mmgled withthe mule-caits , and giou])ed togetherfor a moment might be seen elegantlyattired ladies from New York, slendermulatto girls, clad in a single tatteicdgown which scantil) coveied then baicankles and feet, and stout, shiny negrowomen, their waists tied with a string The First Glimpse, to prevent their flowing drapery from impeding their work. Flitting to and fro were numberless colored chil-dren, bare-headed, bare-legged, and often with not a little of their sleekbodies gleaming through the innumerable rents of their garments, theireyes glittering like black beads, and their white teeth showing on theslightest provocation to mirth. Indeed, the majority of the young menand women were chattering and laughing much of the time, and onlythose well in the shadow of age worked on in a stolid, plodding indiscriminately with the colored people were not a few white 126 Success zvith Small Fruits. women and children, an
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