. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The cotton thieves It is generally good-humored, even when it grum-bles; is prodigal of rude, cheerful talk and raillery; has no secrets or jealousies;is helpful, sympathetic, and familiar. It leaps to its work with a kind of con-centrated effort, and, as soon as the task is done, relapses into its favoritecondition of slouch. Neither the sha
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The cotton thieves It is generally good-humored, even when it grum-bles; is prodigal of rude, cheerful talk and raillery; has no secrets or jealousies;is helpful, sympathetic, and familiar. It leaps to its work with a kind of con-centrated effort, and, as soon as the task is done, relapses into its favoritecondition of slouch. Neither the sharp voices of the skippers, nor the harsh orders of the masters of the gangs, nor the cheeryand mirth-provoking res-ponses of the help, mingledwith the sibilations of es-caping steam, the ringingof countless bells, and themoving and rumbling ofdrays, carts and steam-carscan drown or smother thejocund notes of the negrossong. His arms and limbsand head keep time to theharmony, as he trundlesthe heavy bale along theplanks. When he pauses from Ihere ih, the old apple and cake woman [Pa„e 5O J hls WOrk, yOU may SCe his. 56 SMALL MERCHANTS. dusky wife or daughter, in a long, closely-fitting, trim calico gown, and astarched gingham sun-bonnet, giving him his dinner from a large tin pail; or>-ou may find him patronizing one of the grimy old dames, each of whomlooks wicked enough to be a Voudou Queen, who are always seated at quietcorners with a basket of coarse but well-prepared food. Small merchantsthrive along the levcc. There is the old apple and cake woman, black andfifty, blundering about the wharfs edge; there is the antiquated and moss-grown old man who cowers all day beside a little cart filled with cans of ice-cream; there is the Sicilian fruit-seller, almost as dark visaged as a negro;there is the coffee and sausage man, toward whom, many a time daily, blackand toil-worn hands are eagerly outstretched ; and bordering on Canal street, all along the walks leading fromthe w
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