ILLUSTRATIONS

The sheaves are beaten with flails[Frontispiece]
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"Cherokee"—my father's place[4]
Bonaparte [7]
Each field has a small flood-gate, called a "trunk"[9]
Marcus began work on the breaks[10]
"The girls shuffled the rice about with their feet until it was clayed"[11]
Near the bridge two negro women are fishing[14]
A request from Wishy's mother, Annette, for something to stop bleeding[17]
Green thought it was folly and fussiness[27]
She picked her usual thirty-five pounds alone[31]
To-day the hands are "toting" the rice into the flats[34]
"You see a stack of rice approaching, and you perceive a pair of legs, or a skirt, as the case may be, peeping from beneath"[35]
Chloe[40]
Front porch—Casa Bianca[42]
Elihu was a splendid boatman[51]
My little brown maid Patty is a new acquisition and a great comfort, for she is very bright[53]
The roughness and plainness of the pineland house[54]
The yearly powwow at Casa Bianca[60]
"Four young girls who are splendid workers"[62]
She promised not to war any more[65]
"Myself, ma'am, bin most stupid"[66]
A rice field "flowed"[72]
The hoe they considered purely a feminine implement[79]
The back steps to the pineland house[84]
"A very large black hat"[87]
Her husband brought her in an ox cart[93]
"Old Maum Mary came to bring me a present of sweet potatoes"[98]
"Pa dey een 'e bald"[102]
One or two hands in the barn-yard[107]
A corner of Casa Bianca[109]
"Chaney"[112]
Five children asked me to let them "hunt tetta"[120]
"It is tied into sheaves, which the negroes do very skilfully, with a wisp of the rice itself"[122]
"The field with its picturesque workers"[124]
"The Ferry"[132]
His wife was very stirring[136]
Day after day I met Judy coming out of her patch[138]
"Old Florinda, the plantation nurse"[144]
"Miss Patience, le' me len' yer de money"[150]
"Jus' shinin' um up wid de knife-brick"[159]
Aphrodite spread a quilt and deposited the party upon it[164]
"Then he could talk a-plenty"[171]
Chloe is devoted to the chicks—feeds them every two hours[174]
Prince Frederick's Pee Dee[178]
Prince George Winyah[180]
"Eh, eh, I yere say yu cry 'bout chicken"[187]
The summer kitchen at Cherokee[188]
The winter kitchen at Cherokee[189]
The string of excited children[190]
I got Chloe off to make a visit to her daughter[198]
I really do not miss ice, now that my little brown jug is swung in the well[200]
Patty came in[210]
"Plat eye!"[216]
Goliah cried and sobbed[225]
Had Eva to sow by hand a little of the inoculated seed[232]
Her little log cottage was as clean as possible[236]
The sacred spot with its heavy live oak shadows[242]
"I met Dab on the road"[249]
Cherokee steps[250]
The smoke-house at Cherokee for meat curing[260]
Sol's wife, Aphrodite, is a specimen of maternal health and vigor[262]
I saw a raft of very fine poplar logs being made[263]
Cypress trees[265]
She was a simple, faithful soul—always diligent[270]
Winnowing house for preparation of seed rice[272]
"Patty en Dab en me all bin a eat"[276]
Chloe began: "W'en I bin a small gal"[288]
I took Chloe to Casa Bianca to serve luncheon[299]
"I read tell de kumfut kum to me"[309]
"Up kum Maum Mary wid de big cake een de wheelbarrer"[311]
Gibbie and the oxen[313]
In the field—sowing[317]
How to lay the breakfast table[321]
Joy unspeakable[326]
The church in Peaceville[331]
Chloe was a great success at the North[338]
My old summer home at Pawleys Island[349]
The roof of the house on Pawleys Island—from the sand-hills[352]
"En de 'omans mek answer en say: 'No, ma'am; we neber steal none'"[356]
"Dem all stan' outside de fence"[367]
Fanning and pounding rice for household use[375]
Pounding rice[376]
The rice-fields looked like a great lake[399]
Casa Bianca[422]
Rice-fields from the highlands[439]
"You see I didn't tell no lie"[442]

A WOMAN RICE PLANTER