stouks

Updated: May 11, 2025

He'll be smoking in your hay barns, and burn you out some o' these cold nights." Chauncey took these neighborly warnings with good-humored indifference. "I haven't seen no signs of his doin' any harm," he said. "Anybody's at liberty to walk in the fields if there ain't a 'No Trespass' posted. I rather guess he makes his bed among the corn stouks. I see prints of someone's feet, goin' and comin'."

Mary Hallock Foote - The Desert and the Sown