. Success with small fruits . A Picker. I40 Success ivitJi Small Fruits. by any of the shops in the city, and on one occasion were Young now has his own printing-office, and gets them up in a waynot easily imitated, nor does he issue them until just as the fruit beginsto ripen. He has, moreover, given authority to one man only to cashthese tickets. Thus there is little chance for rascality. He also requires that no tickets shall be cashed until the fields haveall been picked over. Were it not for this regulation, the lazy and the bummers would earn enough merely to buy a few
. Success with small fruits . A Picker. I40 Success ivitJi Small Fruits. by any of the shops in the city, and on one occasion were Young now has his own printing-office, and gets them up in a waynot easily imitated, nor does he issue them until just as the fruit beginsto ripen. He has, moreover, given authority to one man only to cashthese tickets. Thus there is little chance for rascality. He also requires that no tickets shall be cashed until the fields haveall been picked over. Were it not for this regulation, the lazy and the bummers would earn enough merely to buy a few drinks, then slink. and Counting Tickets. off. Now they must remain until all are through before they can get acent. Peters and Harrison see to it that none are lying around in theshade, and thus, through the compulsion of system, many, no doubt, aresurprised to find themselves at work for the greater part of the day. And yet neither system nor Peters, with even his sanguinary reputa-tion, is able alone to control the hordes employed. Of course the verydregs of the population are largely represented. Many go out on a Methods of Culiiire in the South. 141 lark, not a few to steal, and some with the basest purposes. Walkingcontinually back and forth through the fields, therefore, are two dulyauthorized constables, and their presence only prevents a great deal ofcrime. Moreover, according to Virginian law, every landholder has theright to arrest thieves and trespassers. Up to the time of our visit, fivepersons had been arrested, and the fact that they were all white does notspeak very well for
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