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"Have you'uns seed any stray shoats?" asked a passer: "I-uns's uses about here." "Critter" means an animal "cretur," a fellow-creature. "Longsweet-'nin'" and "short sweet'nin'" are respectively syrup and sugar. The practice of dipping by which is meant not baptism, but chewing snuff prevails to a like extent.
"And didn't he go?" asked the girl, watching the rapt face of the old man. "Did he go? Right out through that window with a song that'd break your heart to hear, 'twas so sweet. He pitched on the old apple tree yonder the August sweet'nin' and I thought he'd bust his throat a-tellin' of how glad he was to be free out there in God's sunshine an' open air."
"Sacobie no kill himself now," replied the Micmac, as he bolted a brown slice and a mouthful of hard bread. "Sacobie more like to kill himself when he empty. Want to live when he chock-full. Good fun. T'ank you for more tea." Archer filled the extended mug and poured in the molasses "long sweet'nin'" they call it in that region.
How the beans and crullers were appreciated, and how rapidly the pies and cakes disappeared! How the coffee, with plenty of "sweet'nin'" in it, was relished. In other words, what a grand feast it was to them. How much and how quickly they ate on that occasion can still be learned from any resident of Wakulla; for they talk of "de feed at de openin' ob dat ar Elmer Mill" to this day.
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