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Updated: June 21, 2025
On the farms one and another gave a dance to celebrate some special occasion. There was husking corn and shelling it, there were meats and fish to be salted, some of it dried, for now the inhabitants within and without knew that winter was long and cold. They had sincerely mourned General Wayne.
Had he told the simple fact that he wanted help to drench a "husking" ewe, things might have gone differently. As it was, David turned away defiantly down the hill. The afternoon wore on. Schooltime was long over; still there was no David.
They subsist upon water or air or moss. They use two pieces of stones only for husking their corn. Some of them use their teeth only for such a purpose. Some of them clothe themselves with rags and barks of trees or deer-skins. Remaining in woods and forests, they wander within woods and forests, live within them, and are always to be found within them.
Only to make fun of. And I wish I hadn't come." Hiram was smitten dumb for a moment. He had danced once with Lettie, but the other town girls had given him no opportunity to do so. And it was plain that Lettie's school friends preferred the few boys who had come up from town to any of the farmers' sons who had come to the husking. "I guess you're right, Sister.
'Daughter! said the old, ever so old. mother, as she was putting the bridal dress on Bopoluchi, 'how did you manage to get such beautiful hair? 'Well, replied Bopoluchi, 'my mother made it grow by pounding my head in the big mortar for husking rice. At every stroke of the pestle my hair grew longer and longer. I assure you it is a plan that never fails.
It is always thronged in the mornings and evenings, and only deserted when the fierce heat of midday plunges the village into a lethargic silence; unbroken save where the hum of the hand-mill, or the thump of the husking-post, tells where some busy damsel or matron is grinding flour, or husking rice, in the cool shadow of her hut, for the wants of her lord and master.
This is not the place nor the weather for husking frolics! Well! yo' want to know WHY yo' mustn't speak to me in that way. Be still, and I'll tell yo'." She smoothed down the folds of her frock, sitting sideways on the bank, one little foot touching the road.
The men were out in the fields all day, husking corn, and when they came in at noon, with long caps pulled down over their ears and their feet in red-lined overshoes, I used to think they were like Arctic explorers.
"Methinks in such matters a woman is the best judge," said the girl naively. "Tut, tut, Desire!" "Nay, I meant no harm, mother," and then with a great sigh, she said: "I will go. Poor father feels so bad." The next evening when, dressed for the husking, she took a last look in her mirror she was fairly scared to see how pretty she was.
I threw myself into the hammock; Ernst lay down upon one of the beds; the man and woman, squatting, were husking corn for our horses; a little girl was feeding a fire of pine splints, built upon the floor, which served for light. As they worked and we rested the man asked that question which ever seems of supreme importance to Mexican indians, "Como se llama Ud. señor?"
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