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Updated: May 29, 2025
Now Bob, like all men in his condition, was quite certain that he was in perfect possession of his faculties, and therefore he very naturally resented such an absurd assertion. "Don't you b'lieve it," he protested. "I know what I'm doing, all right, all right." "A man never speaks his mind until he's ginned," Lilas giggled. "Righto! I'm not half drunk yet."
All of it, which was exposed to the weather, was in bales, weighing each a fourth of a ton and with bulging white spots in their bellies where the coarse cotton baling failed to cover their nakedness. It was cotton cotton cotton. Seed, ginned, lint, baled, cotton. The Gaffs was a fine estate of five thousand acres which had been handed down for several generations.
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.
The third day we arrived at the place spoken of, this man Shewman got pretty well ginned up and started out to look for Uncle Kit, saying that he had heard a great deal of Kit Carson and of his fighting proclivities, and that he would lick him on sight.
They ginned the cotton on the plantation. They used a horse to pull the gin. They weighed the cotton with a beam and weight. A good slave picked 200 lbs of cotton in a day. Nancy could pick 300 or 400 lbs in a day. She'd go out early in the day and run in ahead of the sun and no one would know she had been out. That's how she would get ahead of the rest.
House-servants, who were at first particularly set against it, now generally prefer it. The laborers have collected the pieces of the gins which they destroyed on the flight of their masters, the ginning being obnoxious work, repaired them, and ginned the cotton on the promise of wages.
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