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It was expedient accordingly to send the pickers through the fields as early and as often as there was crop enough open to reward the labor. Four or five compartments held the contents of each boll; from sixty to eighty bolls were required to yield a pound in the seed; and three or four pounds of seed cotton furnished one pound of lint.
Polly has figured heroic. Now comes the fall again; he sounded abject terror; he dropped that ineffectual scrap of glass and turned and fled round the corner of the house. "Bolls!" came the thick voice of the enemy behind him as one who accepts a challenge, and bleeding, but indomitable, Uncle Jim entered the house. "Bolls!" he said, surveying the bar. "Fightin' with bolls!
Mavering caught him, and tried to beat him; his fists fell like bolls of cotton; the burglar drew his breath in with a long, washing sound like water. Mavering woke deathly sick, and heard the sweep of the waves. The boat was pitching frightfully. He struggled out into the saloon, and saw that it was five o'clock.
He tried to bury his head in the pillows that he might not hear. Jem-y-Lord came in hurriedly and Philip beckoned him close. "Where is she?" he whispered. "They removed her to Castle Rushen late last night, your Honour," said Jemmy softly. "Write immediately to the Clerk of the Bolls," said Philip. "Say she must be lodged on the debtors' side and have patients' diet and every comfort.
By his side was a stooped figure and as the old man jingled some gold in his pocket he said, patting the figure on the back: "You'll come back a man, Cap'n Tom thank God! a man ag'in!" The autumn had deepened the cotton had been picked. The dry stalks, sentinelling the seared ground, waved their tattered remnants of unpicked bolls to and fro summer's battle flags which had not yet fallen.
Let us hope, and listen out next year for the cheery "Bob White, Bob White," from the old nesting-place. The cool fogginess of an August morning has melted under the fierce sun. The level fields, like a waveless ocean, stretch away into the dim, green distance. The hot air quivers above cotton-fields, heavy with bolls and gay with blossoms, which give out a half-sickening fragrance.
They'd each of them been out more than onst, for every Frenchman will fight, and master had been obleag'd to do so in the cors of his bisniss; and knowing each other's curridg, as well as the fact that either could put a hundrid bolls running into a hat at 30 yards, they wairnt very willing to try such exparrymence upon their own hats with their own heads in them.
This year there had been, upon some speculation of old Martin's, several bolls sown in the exit-field, which, the season being fine, had ripened remarkably well.
The fiber, growing in bolls resembling a walnut in size and shape, had to be taken by hand from every boll, as it has to be today, for no satisfactory cotton harvester has yet been invented.
At the base of the rockery were a large pink-lined conch-shell and several smaller shells. On the walls were various branches of different species of vegetation; among others a tangle of twigs of the cotton plant, from which depended numerous bolls. Pansy was struggling with a lot of evergreen boughs, which she was trying to crowd into a strange-looking receptacle.
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