. Success with small fruits . a, and from a bassviol, fiddle, and fife they extract melody that, with all its short-coming,would make a deacon wish to dance. Any one, white or black, can. Exterior of Factory. 144 Success with Small Fruits. purchase the privilege of keeping step to the music for two cents, or onestrawberry ticket. Business was superb, and every shade of color andcharacter was represented. In the vernacular of the farm, the mulatto girlsare called strawberry blondes, and one that would have attracted atten-tion anywhere was led out by a droll, full-blooded negro, who would havem
. Success with small fruits . a, and from a bassviol, fiddle, and fife they extract melody that, with all its short-coming,would make a deacon wish to dance. Any one, white or black, can. Exterior of Factory. 144 Success with Small Fruits. purchase the privilege of keeping step to the music for two cents, or onestrawberry ticket. Business was superb, and every shade of color andcharacter was represented. In the vernacular of the farm, the mulatto girlsare called strawberry blondes, and one that would have attracted atten-tion anywhere was led out by a droll, full-blooded negro, who would havemade the fortune of a minstrel troupe. She was tall and willowy. Aprofusion of dark hair curled about an oval face, not too dark to prevent afaint color of the strawberry from glowing in her cheeks. She wore neitherhat nor shoes, but was as unembarrassed, apparently, in her one close-fitting garment, as could be any ball-room belle dressed in the latest blonde, who sported torn slippers and white stockings, was in. Rubhins: the Last Lot danger of being spoiled by much attention. As a rule, however, barefeet were nothing against a lady in the estimation of the young any rate, all who could spare a berry ticket speedily found a partner,and, as we rode away from the farm, the last sounds were those of musicand merriment, and our last glimpse was of the throng of dancers on thegreen. The confused uproar and rush of business around the Old Dominionsteamship made a marked contrast. To the ample wharves every speciesof vehicle had been coming all day, while all kinds of craft, from a skiff to Methods of Culture in the South. 145 a large two-masted schooner, waiting their turn to discharge their freightof berry crates and garden produce, reached half across the Ehzabethriver. The rumble of the trucks was almost like the roar of thunder, asscores of negroes hustled crates, barrels and boxes aboard. Most of thetime, they were on a good round trot, and one had to pick h
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