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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