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He was at work in a little stony piece of late clover, so rough he did not like to risk the mower in it. For three hours he had been laying the tumbled swaths in winding tracks across the field, and he had a very good excuse for going to the well, indeed. Coupled with that was the need of a whet-rock, and behind it all the justification of his position.
He sharpens tools on a grindin'-rock or whet-rock. Tomato, cabbage, molasses and baking powder are used always as plural nouns. "Pass me them molasses." "I'll have a few more of them cabbage." "How many bakin'-powders has you got?" Many other peculiar words and phrases are explained in their proper place elsewhere in this volume. The speech of the southern highlanders is alive with quaint idioms.
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