. Highways and byways of the South. Splitting out Shingles from an Oak would be straight-grained, sawed it into three-footlengths, and was now riving these blocks into thinboards which he later reduced to a more even thick-ness on a rude shaving-horse. I sat down and we had A Virginia Wonder 223 a talk. He told me he had a little farm of thirty orforty acres, and I asked if he knew of other coloredpeople who owned their places. He paused in hiswork, shut one eye, and counted twenty-two persons. A Home Gateway 224 Highways and Byways of the South within a mile who had acquired such farms. Theyd
. Highways and byways of the South. Splitting out Shingles from an Oak would be straight-grained, sawed it into three-footlengths, and was now riving these blocks into thinboards which he later reduced to a more even thick-ness on a rude shaving-horse. I sat down and we had A Virginia Wonder 223 a talk. He told me he had a little farm of thirty orforty acres, and I asked if he knew of other coloredpeople who owned their places. He paused in hiswork, shut one eye, and counted twenty-two persons. A Home Gateway 224 Highways and Byways of the South within a mile who had acquired such farms. Theydidnt all get em fo* de right price, though, said he. Hit seem like evy one want to gouge yo dese I doan let em gouge me. Im a little too olein de haid. I done learnt a whole parcel. His children were all grown up. I raised em onhonest bread, he explained, an dar ain never oneof em given me no trouble. Dey make me ain a shoutin man, — an Im a Baptis, too, — butdey make me so proud I could jus shout way over dehighest hill you cn see. De children are scatterednow, an I got one daughter in New York, an hits solong since I have hearn from her I reckon she moughtbe daid. Later, when I resumed the road, I fell in withanother local resident, this time a white man who hadbeen an officer in the Confederate army. I repeatedwhat the colored man had said about the prevalenceof gouging. Well, he commented, theres some queer thingsin the South. You take the people in the mountain
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