"Come, chilluns, to bed," said our host, and they were all stacked one over the other on the one corn-shuck couch where a chorus of snores proved they were in the land of dreams.

I sells mats (shuck mats) $1.00 and I bottom chairs 50¢.

But shucks niggers aint got no sense nuf ter do fancy things.

The place where I stayed in the daytime was in a large shuck-pena pen built in the field to feed stock from, in the winter time.

Remember that she could hear of the outside world daily from the passing chattelsof the plantations, farms, families; the green fields, Sunday woods, running streams; the camp-meetings, corn-shuckings, cotton-pickings, sugar-grindings; the baptisms, marriages, funerals, prayer-meetings; the holidays and holy days.