. Success with small fruits . anch 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
. Success with small fruits . anch 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, for the pickers least given toprayer are oftenest on their knees, crushing. Git up, dar, you long man,offn ver knees. whether theymuch fruit iseffort to keep ^^=^=-^^^ the strawberries, and,are long or short,destroyed. North or South, thethose we employ off the berries must be constant,especially as a long, hot day is waning. Indeed,one can scarcely blame them for lopping down, for it would be inquis-itorial torture to most of us to stoop upon our feet through a summerday. Picking strawberries, as a steady business, is wofuUy prosaic. While the sun had been shining so brightly, there had been an occa-sional heavy jar and rumble of thunder, and now the western sky wasblack. Gradually the pickers had disappeared from the Wilson field, andwe at last followed them, warned by an occasional drop of rain to seek thevicinity of the house. Having reached the grassy slope beneath thepines in the rear of the dwelling, we turned to note the pretty branch of Tanners Creek came up almost to our feet, and on eitherside of it stretched a
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