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Updated: May 31, 2025
What tragedy was written in those wavering lines; what heartbreak of going away from some dear hope and broken dream! Here a teamster was cutting across the prairie to strike the road a little below the point where the traveler stood. Extra side boards were on his wagon-box, as they used to put them on in corn-gathering time back in the traveler's boyhood home in Indiana.
Division of Labor. Moral Suasion. Corn-gathering in the South. An Alarm. A Frightened Irishman. The Rebels Approaching. An Attack on Waterproof. Falstaff Redivivus. His Feats of Arms. Departure for New Orleans. Our cotton having been ginned and baled, we made preparations for shipping it to market.
Near the other entrance, comparing notes upon fall wheat-sowing or corn-gathering, was a cluster of farmers in shirt sleeves, homespun trousers and well-greased shoes. Upon the horse-block a group of merry belles, divesting themselves of mud-stained riding-skirts, stood forth in bright array beads and ribands, flaunting chintzes, clocked stockings and morocco slippers.
I wanted to steal a march upon my friend, and show him how smart I was by bagging a fat young `gobbler' for breakfast. "As soon as I had got round the house, I saw the turkeys a large `gang' of them. They were out in an old corn-field, feeding upon such of the seeds as had been dropped in the corn-gathering.
More often, some one of the settlers who was fortunate enough to possess the rudiments of an education undertook the role of schoolmaster in the interval between the autumn corn-gathering and the spring ploughing and planting.
Corn-gathering in the South differs materially from corn-gathering in the North. The negroes go through the field breaking the ears from the stalks without removing the husk. The ears are thrown into heaps at convenient distances from each other, and in regular rows. A wagon is driven between these rows, and the corn gathered for the crib.
The time of the corn-gathering had come, and the young people of the tribe were assembled in the field, busy in plucking the ripened maize. One of the girls, noted for her beauty, had found a red ear, and every one congratulated her that a brave admirer was on his way to her father's lodge.
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