"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.