. Highways and byways of the South. , when the teacher dont see hit. I dontremember how ole I was when I begun to use tobacco,but I remember hit made me sick. Paw let us get achew from his box whenever we want hit. I dont chewnone now, and I have try to give up my snuff, but hitseem to be like usin opium, or drinkin spirits—yocaint stop. Ive heered they dont use snuff out North theway we do hyar, said Mrs. Shenton. I was ridinon the cyars one day an two Northern women set infront of me tellin how awful they thought hit was —our snuff-dippin ; but while those two women talkthey swear right alon
. Highways and byways of the South. , when the teacher dont see hit. I dontremember how ole I was when I begun to use tobacco,but I remember hit made me sick. Paw let us get achew from his box whenever we want hit. I dont chewnone now, and I have try to give up my snuff, but hitseem to be like usin opium, or drinkin spirits—yocaint stop. Ive heered they dont use snuff out North theway we do hyar, said Mrs. Shenton. I was ridinon the cyars one day an two Northern women set infront of me tellin how awful they thought hit was —our snuff-dippin ; but while those two women talkthey swear right along scandalous, an I allow I ratherhave our snuff-dippin than to swear the way theNorthern women do. The afternoon was waning, and the hens were flap- no Highways and Byways of the South ping up to their roosting-place in the Hmbs of a cedarclose by the porch. Well, I got to be gettin atmy work, remarked Mrs. Shenton. Hits a rightsmart of a job to take cyar of this house; but Ellen,she do most of the work now. I done quit it. All. Working in the Garden our eight boys an girls gone excep Ellen, and if sheleave, too, wed give up the place an go travellin anvisitin about among our children. When I bade the family good-by I was urged tocall again and to come in sometime to dinner. Thisinvitation to dinner I accepted a few days later. I wasa little early, and Mr. Shenton was out in the fieldrelaying a zigzag fence ; but his wife welcomed me to ^ Among the Georgia Crackers 111 a chair on the porch and assured me he would be inwhen the dinner train went along. It seemed thata train passed about twelve oclock and was known asthe dinner train, because its passing was a signal thateating time had come. As soon as it hove in sightevery one in the fields promptly started for the house. The ole man done taken a likin to you, informed me, an he want to talk with gettin childish, now, the ole man is. He beensick a long time, an he aint plough a furrow in twelveyears. His
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