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Updated: September 23, 2025
They had to. I learned somethin' off of them about farmin'." "Forget the farm," said Minnie. "Yeh," echoed Gus, "forget the farm stuff. I can get you a job here out at the works for four a day, and six when you learn it right." Dike looked from one to the other, alarm and unbelief on his face. "What d'you mean, a job? Who wants a job! What you all " Bella laughed, jovially.
A thought ye wur farmin' in Victoria," he replied. "An' Collins is a purty common name, so it is; an' A did n't hear yer Chris'n name at all at all. But ye'll stap wi' me the night, an' we'll hev a graat cronia about oul' times." "That's just what I was looking forward to, Rory. Which way are you going now?" "No matther, Tammas.
"Old woman what cooked for the chillun was old Aunt Henie and she walked half bent with a stick. "I went to school some after freedom. Learned how to spell and read but not much writin'. "I can't tell you 'bout no whippin's 'cause if they whipped the folks they didn't do it at the quarters where the chillun was. "I been farmin' all my life till I come to Arkansas in 1916.
"He comes and tells me now as that strip has always been the apple of his eye. . . . It's my belief he wants to grow roses against me; and what's more, it's my belief he'd swallow up all Rilla if he could; which is better land than his own, acre for acre. It angers him to live alongside a woman and be beaten by her at every point o' farmin'."
She say, 'Sambo, you don't b'long to me now. "Dey bound us young Niggers out. Dey sent me an' my brother to a man dat were goin' to give us some learnin' 'long wid farmin'. His name were Overstreet. Us worked dat crop out, but us aint never seen no speller, nor nothin'. "Den us went back to Stephenson's, where us were born, to git us age. Old mistis say, 'Sambo, you aint twenty-one yet.
It's only used for pasture no farmin' to speak of." The hills were bare and grassy. Only the canyons were wooded, while the higher and more distant hills were furry with chaparral. Once they saw a coyote slide into the brush, and once Billy wished for a gun when a large wildcat stared at them malignantly and declined to run until routed by a clod of earth that burst about its ears like shrapnel.
Jocelyn in a way but he's no sort of a man to worry about he just goes reglar to the farmin' an' that's all a decent creature always, an' steady as his own oxen what pulls the plough. An' when he's gone, if go he must, I'll look arter you an' Mr. Robin, an' please God, I'll dance your babies on my old knees " Here she broke off and turned her head away. Innocent ran to her, surprised.
"Now, it's this away," he said to his directors, "God never intended for any people to work all the time between walls an' floors. Tilling the soil is the natural work of man, an' there is somethin' in the very touch of the ground to our feet that puts new life in our bodies. "The farmin' instinct is so natural in us that you can't stop it by flood or drought or failure.
"Well, I 'm not a college man, but I 've read the Bible. Let's go in and take a look at Holy Writ on farmin'," leading the way with alacrity into the house. "My father was a great Bible man down in Maine," he went on. "Let me raise a curtain.
Christopher got turned out of the Hall jest befo' his pa died, an' was shuffled into the house of the overseer, whar Bill Fletcher used to live himself, the darkies all bought bits o'land here an' thar an' settled down to do some farmin' on a free scale. Stuck up, suh!
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