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Oysters were plentiful, and negroes on the plantation brought out boat loads for the soldiers, and gave them out for a little tobacco or a small amount of Confederate "shin-plasters." Great fires were built at night, and eight or ten bushels of the sweet, juicy bivalves were poured over the heap, to be eaten as the shells would pop by the heat.
Suffice it to say, that I was a gentleman preacher, with plenty of money, and that the Texans, president, generals, and all, condescended to eat my dinners, though they would not hear my sermons; even the women looked softly upon me, for I had two trunks, linen in plenty, and I had taken the precaution in Louisiana of getting rid of my shin-plasters for hard specie.
The Confederacy issued one billion dollars of paper money, States issued another flood of promises to pay, cities put out municipal currency, fire and life insurances their shin-plasters, and they kept pouring out paper money until finally all the printing presses broke down.
Suffice it to say, that I was a gentleman preacher, with plenty of money, and that the Texians, president, generals, and all, condescended to eat my dinners, though they would not hear my sermons; even the women looked softly upon me, for I had two trunks, linen in plenty, and I had taken the precaution in Louisiana of getting rid of my shin-plasters for hard specie.
"Rice cakes for breakfast" "All in my eye, Betty Martin" "Yarns and Yankees" "Shad and shin-plasters" "Yams and yaller boys," and so on, in a string of the most irrelevant alliteration and folly, that, like much other nonsense, evoked peals of laughter, by its unexpected utterance, and which at last mollified and brought out Major Favraud himself, from his dignified retirement.
The host then came to me, with a smile. "Why, Sir, we don't charge more to you than to others. Five dollars in 'shin-plasters, or twenty-five cents in specie." All was thus explained, and the next morning. I satisfied my bill of twenty-two dollars, with one dollar and twelve cents in silver.
Joe took from the pockets of the rebel a quantity of pistol cartridges, a knife, some letters, and a wallet. "Who's this fur?" asked Joe, as he proceeded to open the wallet, and take therefrom a roll of Confederate "shin-plasters." "Give it back to him." "But this is money." "Money!" sneered Tom. "A northern beggar wouldn't thank you for all he could carry of it.
Rawley looked at the ominous-looking bottles on the shelves above the old man's head; at the forceps, knives, and other surgical instruments on the walls they at least were bright and clean and, taking the cheroot slowly from his mouth, he said: "Shin-plasters are what I want. A friend of mine has caught his leg in a trap."
Rawley looked at the ominous-looking bottles on the shelves above the old man's head, at the forceps, knives, and other surgical instruments on the walls they at least were bright and clean and, taking the cheroot slowly from his mouth, he said: "Shin-plasters are what I want. A friend of mine has caught his leg in a trap."
Some of the interesting facts obtained from this slave of the fourth generation were: Salt was obtained by evaporating sea water, there were no regular stoves, cooking was done by hanging iron pots on rails in the fireplaces, an open well was used to obtain water, flour was sold at $12.00 a barrell, "shin-plasters" was used for money, the first buggy was called "rockaways" due to the elasticity of the leather-springs, Rev.
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