. Success with small fruits . 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, and occasionally a white man. As a
. Success with small fruits . 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, and occasionally a white man. As a rule, thesewere better dressed, the white girls wearing sun-bonnets of portentoussize, whose cavernous depths would make a search for beauty on the partof our artist a rather close and embarrassing scrutiny. The coloredwomen as often wore a mans hat as any other, and occasionally enlivenedthe field with a red bandana. Over all the stooping, moving, oddlyappareled forms, a June-like sun was shining with summer warmth. Tr- ^ i^. Nondescript Edibles. Beyond the field a branch of Tanners Creek shimmered in the light, tallpines sighed in the breeze on the right, and from the copse-wood at theirfeet quails were calling, their mellow whistle blending with the notes of awild Methodist air. In the distance rose the spires of Norfolk, complet-ing a picture whose interest and charm I have but faintly suggested. Several of the overseers are negroes, and we were hardly on the Methods of Ciilturc in the South. 127 ground before one of these men, in the performance of his dut), shouted in a stentorian voice : Heah, you ! Git up, dar, you long man, offn yer knees. What yo mashin down a half-acre o berries fer ? Mr. Sheppard was quick to see a good subject, and almost in a flash he had the man posed and motionless in his attitude of authority, and under his rapid strokes Jackson won fameand eminence, going to his work a little laterthe hero of the field. The overseers task isa difficult one, fo
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