Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in dialect have been left unchanged.
The figure labeled "Pallas" in the text is labeled "Chloe" in the list of illustrations.
A WOMAN RICE PLANTER
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
The sheaves are beaten with flails.
A WOMAN RICE PLANTER
PATIENCE PENNINGTON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OWEN WISTER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALICE R. H. SMITH
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1913 All rights reserved
Copyrighted 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, By THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.
Copyright, 1913, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To MY FATHER TO WHOSE EXAMPLE OF SELF-CONTROL AND CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE, I OWE THE POWER TO LIVE MY LIFE INDEPENDENT OF EXTERNALS, I DEDICATE THESE FRAGMENTARY RECORDS, ON THIS THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
Chicora Wood, April 21st, 1913.