Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . HOW MUCH LONGER DO YOU WANT THfS HUMILIATING SPECTACLE TO CONTINUE?Drawn by Gordon Nye. ANN BOYD. BY WILL N. Chapter XVII. T was in the latter partof August. Breezeswith just a touch ofautumnal erispnessbore down from themountain-sides, clip-ping from their stemsthe first dead and dying leaves, andswept on across Ann Boyds levelcotton-fields, where she was at workat the head of a score of cotton-pickers—negro men, boys, women,and girls. There were certain socialreasons why the unemployed poorwhite females would not labor underthis strange woma
Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . HOW MUCH LONGER DO YOU WANT THfS HUMILIATING SPECTACLE TO CONTINUE?Drawn by Gordon Nye. ANN BOYD. BY WILL N. Chapter XVII. T was in the latter partof August. Breezeswith just a touch ofautumnal erispnessbore down from themountain-sides, clip-ping from their stemsthe first dead and dying leaves, andswept on across Ann Boyds levelcotton-fields, where she was at workat the head of a score of cotton-pickers—negro men, boys, women,and girls. There were certain socialreasons why the unemployed poorwhite females would not labor underthis strange woman, though theyneeded her ready money as badly asthe blacks, and that, too, was a con-stant thorn in the flesh of Annspride. She could afford to pay wellfor work, inasmuch as her plantingand harvesting were invariably profit-able. She had good agricultural*judgment, and she used it. Even hercotton picking would average up bet-ter to the acre than other ,for she saw to it that her workers putin good time and left no white, flut-tering scrap on stalk, leaf, or bole, toattract the birds looking for liningsfor their winters nests. When herblack ban
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