A YAZOO AFTERNOON
There were no difficulties of any consequence to contend with after The Last of the Flatboats entered the Yazoo. The boys’ guests were well now, and joined them in their long talks on deck. These talks covered every conceivable subject, and the planter, who proved himself to be an unusually well-informed man, added not a little to their interest.
“I say, Ed,” said Phil one day, holding up one of his newspapers, “you were all wrong about the crops.”
“How do you mean, Phil?”
“Why, you put corn first, as the most valuable crop produced in this country.”
“Well, isn’t it?”
“Not if this newspaper writer knows his business and tells the truth.”
“Why, what does he say?” asked Ed, with an interest he had not at first shown in Phil’s criticism.
“He says that in Missouri, which I take to be one of the great corn-growing states—”