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"They turn into what they call sweet-potatoes, after one or two crops: yams are better things, in my opinion." At this moment the dogs dashed among the broad yam leaves, and commenced baying; there was a great rustling and snorting. "What's that?" cried William, who had been stooping down to examine the yam plant, and who was startled at the noise. Ready laughed heartily.
Strung out across the little field of malangas, yuccas, and sweet-potatoes were several hilarious Volunteers, their arms filled with loot from the cabin. Behind them strode an officer bearing Rosa struggling against his breast. Esteban did not pause; he drove his horse headlong through the soft red earth of the garden. His sudden appearance seemed briefly to paralyze the marauders.
"They turn into what they call sweet-potatoes, after one or two crops: yams are better things, in my opinion." At this moment the dogs dashed among the broad yam leaves, and commenced baying; there was a great rustling and snorting. "What's that?" cried William, who had been stooping down to examine the yam plant, and who was startled at the noise. Ready laughed heartily.
The dogs then made a most unceremonious assault upon me, when the maidens, forgetting their fears, made a sally upon the fierce curs, and clubbed them with such hearty good-will that the discomfited canines hastily took refuge in the woods. The family listened to my story, and insisted upon my joining them in their mid-day meal, which consisted of pork, sweet-potatoes, and corn- bread.
"All well at home?" asked the young fellow, as he took up the bill of fare to order the dinner. His father hated that, and always made him do it. "Yes, yes; as usual, I believe. Minnie is off for a week at the mountains; Eunice is at home." "Oh! How would you like some green goose, with apple-sauce, sweet-potatoes, and succotash?" "It seems to me that was pretty good, the last time.
General Slocum was ahead at Madison, with the Twentieth Corps, having torn up the railroad as far as that place, and thence had sent Geary's division on to the Oconee, to burn the bridges across that stream, when this corps turned south by Eatonton, for Milledgeville, the common "objective" for the first stage of the "march." We found abundance of corn, molasses, meal, bacon, and sweet-potatoes.
She was in favor of the asparagus and sweet-potatoes, but she said she thought we had better plant what we had of the other things and see how far they would go, before ordering more. She said the seed-houses would probably have enough to go around even a week or so later, and we could use what we had on hand in making what the catalogues referred to as the "first sowing."
One of the settlers was growing sweet-potatoes on a fairly large scale for pig food, the plough being used for the harvesting of the crop. Seldom was a furrow run for the full length of the field without turning up both adders and rats.
"He's a veteran of the Ten Years' War. That means STEW again! STEW! One puncture-proof, rubber ox and a bushel of sweet-potatoes for four hundred men!" "Do you know what I want for dinner?" Norine inquired. "Lamb chops with green peas, some nice white bread, a salad, and coffee." The three men looked at her anxiously. Judson stirred uneasily. "That's what I want. I don't expect to get it."
The native house at which you will pass the night is clean, and you may there enjoy the novelty of sleeping on Hawaiian mats, and under the native cover of tapa. You must bring with you tea or coffee, sugar, and bread, and such other food as is necessary to your comfort. Sweet-potatoes and bananas, and chickens caught after you arrive, with abundant cocoa-nuts, are the supplies of the place.
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