. Highways and byways of the South. ttler had started a each farm would be a wharf and a boat ortwo, and the river was evidently the chief highway ofthe dwellers on its shores. I came along just in timeto see one farmer finish loading his boat with produceto take down to the town. He had potatoes, cab-bages, poultry and eggs, tomatoes and several bunchesof bananas ; and the boat sank almost to the was a bushy-bearded, long-haired, half-wild-lookingindividual, but his conversation was marked by intel-ligence, and even a touch of culture. I mentioned thisto Holt when we
. Highways and byways of the South. ttler had started a each farm would be a wharf and a boat ortwo, and the river was evidently the chief highway ofthe dwellers on its shores. I came along just in timeto see one farmer finish loading his boat with produceto take down to the town. He had potatoes, cab-bages, poultry and eggs, tomatoes and several bunchesof bananas ; and the boat sank almost to the was a bushy-bearded, long-haired, half-wild-lookingindividual, but his conversation was marked by intel-ligence, and even a touch of culture. I mentioned thisto Holt when we had left the pioneer behind. Yes,said my boatman, but you can find better talkers thanhe is here. You ought to go over to the next farmacross the river. The man there — he talks like aminister — he got just that slang, you know. My talk Spring on the Florida Coast 15 is not good. I been a sailor many years, and the sailorson a ship, they are men of all nations piled together,an pretty rough, an they great cursers. I got so use. iL L. ? i. ?*!.. ^ - - —._ . A Planter ready to start for Market to their talk I couldnt do nothing for long time butcurse same like they did. That didnt suit me. I ama philosopher, an my feelins are delicate ; an I gotthinkin of it mo an mo, an 1 stopped. 16 Highways and Byways of the South My philosophic and delicate companion pulled alongupstream in silence for a while, and then he gave mehis views with regard to the niggers. I have no use for em, said he. Theyre treach-erous. If a white man got five cents, and the niggershave a good chance, they murder him for it. Yes, ifthey get a poor white man alone, they murder him forhis clothes. They come to your face fine as can be, butyou turn your back an they cut your throat; though,of cose, theres some are all right. 1 got heap of goodidea, Ive knocked about so long, an 1 keep away fromniggers. They have a nachul stink, you know ; and ifyou stay with em all the time it apt to drive you sm
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