It was expedient accordingly to send the pickers through the fields as early and as often as there was crop enough open to reward the labor.

It must extend in other directions, taking in the huge army of the unskilled and the semi-skilled, outside of those trades, so as to cover the fruit-pickers in the fields and the packers in the canneries, the paper-box-makers, the sorters of nuts and the knotters of feathers, those who pick the cotton from the plant, as well as those who make the cotten into cloth.

" Bambinifor it was the then distinguished, but now almost forgotten, professoroffered to take the boy home with him; and he who had entered the garden of the Tuileries a rag-picker, left it a recognized musician.

He wanted to inspect the strawberry-pickers, one at a time.

He rounded up over 200 cotton pickers and negro men who work in the freight depots once in a while and started them out after hornets' nests.

Thar's a handful of russets in the orchard yit, that's calc'latin' ter spend Christmas up close ter heaven; butSay, Blossy," he added more loudly, since she did not raise her head, "yew seen anythin' o' that air picker?" Blossy glanced up from her ragged-edged crackly billet-doux with a start, and dropped the envelop to the floor.

You can take that bar out and work with it, while I use my own picker at the other.

On his return, he found that the red spiders had anticipated the pickers, and destroyed the entire crop, so that his work of years came to naught, as the buyers of course refused to pay to feed the spiders.

wuz no use talkin', he couldn' 'ford ter buy no new ban's, en' he'd ha' ter sen' fer Cindy, 'en put her in de fiel'; fer de cotton-crap wuz a monst'us big 'un dat year, en' Cindy wuz one er de bes' cotton-pickers on de plantation.