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In the rich alluvium of the Mississippi the cotton will tower beyond the reach of the tallest "picker," and a single plant will contain hundreds of perfect "bolls;" in the neighboring "piney-woods" it lifts its humble head scarcely above the knee, and is proportionably meager in its produce of fruit.
When I say to Quivey, "Make haste slowly, my dear fellow;" he returns: "Never fear, my friend; I shall know when the time comes to speak." The coach of Wells, Fargo & Co. stood before the door of Piney-woods Station, and Sam Rice, the driver, was drawing on his lemon-colored gloves with an air, for Sam was the pink of stage-drivers, from his high white hat to his faultless French boots.
There was an odd, piney-woods dash about him that was exceedingly diverting, and he went through comic, sentimental, and original songs with an air that showed his whole heart was in it. Judging from the number of youth too timid to venture in, who peeped at us from the windows, I should say that young ladies are curiosities just now in Madisonville. Tuesday, April 14th.
He, hat in hand, bowed around the convulsed circle with a countenance shining with the most sublimely vacant expression. O that man's idiotic face, and solemn, portentous look, brought a writhe even to my trembling lips! Mr. Enders would have given one an excellent idea of the effect produced by a real old piney-woods chill; he shook as with suppressed laughter. Morse, and addressed her as Mrs.
Within a mile or less of Piney-woods Station, he met the keeper, the grooms, and an odd man or two, that chanced to have been about the place, all armed to the teeth, who, when they saw him, halted in surprise. "Why, we reckoned you was dead," said the head man, with an air of disappointment. "Dead?" repeated Sam. "Have you seen my coach?"
Old people who knew him when a boy, described him to Judge Garnett Andrews as "a sallow, piney-woods-looking lad." "Piney-woods people" was the local name for the tackies, the clay eaters, the no-accounts, that had settled about on the poorer lands in that section of Georgia, and given themselves over to thriftlessness for good and all.
Rice, and said, in a voice savage with spite and disappointment: "I arrest you, sir." "Arrest and be d d!" returned Sam. "If you had done your duty, you'd have arrested her while you had the chance." "That's so your head is level; and if you'll assist me in getting on to Piney-woods station in time to catch the run-away for she can't very well drive beyond that station I'll let you off."
"Have you got a warrant?" asked Sam, in a low tone, as he wound the lines around the break, previous to getting down. "You bet! but I'm in no hurry to serve it. Piney-woods station 'ill do just as well. Telegraph office there." Mr. Rice was not in any haste this morning, being, as he said, ahead of time. He invited Mrs.
Among others, Colonel Desmit had obtained an inkling of this idea, and instead of concentrating all his destructible property in the region of his home, where, as it resulted, it would have been comparatively secure, he pitched upon the "piney-woods" region to the south-eastward, as the place of greatest safety.
Time, and the pushing a railroad through this eastern portion of the State, have effected vast changes for the better, and among these quaintly called piney-woods people now are families of wealth and cultivation. But in the main they are yet rude and illiterate. Not ten years since, I spent some time in Eastern Mississippi.
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