[PDF] A Woman Rice Planter eBook

Author : Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Publisher : Southern Classics Series
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872498266

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A collection of Pringle's weekly columns in the New York Sun. Her father had been a governor and a rice planter. Her family spent summers on Pawley's Island and owned the Nathaniel Russell House in Charleston.

Author : Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230307602

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... news, which she would not bring out until I had had my dinner. While I was away I had several letters from Chloe, in one of which she announced with great joy that sixtythree fine healthy chicks had hatched from the 'cubator. So when I had finished the simple but delicious meal which she had prepared for me I asked her to go out with me and show me the chickens. Then she poured out her woes. The night before she moved from the plantation some one had climbed the six-foot fence and stolen twenty-five of the precious last-hatched chicks. She said when she found it out the next morning she sat down and cried, she had been so proud to have hatched them out and they were doing so well and growing so fast. I sympathized with her. Of course it was a great blow to me, but she was in such deep distress over it that I had to act the part of consoler, though I was the victim. She went on to say: "En I do' kno' who carry de news out say I cry 'bout de chicken, but I s'pose 'twas dat wicket boy Rab, fu' ebeybody I meet say 'Eh, eh! I yere say yu cry 'bout chicken, I'se shock to yere sech a ting! A pusson cry fu' loss 'e mudder or some of 'e fambly, but cry fu' chicken! No; en wusser wen 'tain't yo' chicken.'" This taunt and ridicule seemed to have sunk deep and to rankle still. She went on to say that the person who took the chickens must have been well known to the dogs, as they made no outcry, and moreover that Rab had not slept at home that night, saying he had stayed with Willing, which all looks very bad for both of these boys. I will not attempt to investigate, for it would be perfectly useless. It is a principle firmly maintained that one negro will not give testimony against another unless he has a quarrel with him, and then he will say...

Author : Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
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ISBN : 9781296694500

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