k Learns Sev

groes at work cutting tobacco, an interesting operation al

," "did you find any ripe enough to cu

kah on de plantation, for all 'twas pla

ousin Edwin owned the 'p

e doe

e two of

mean? Every plantation has

ho gives t

ou want to know about things here, else you'll get yourself laugh

is 'prizin

t. We press the tobacco in hogsheads, you know, and we call it prizing. It never struck me as a peculiarly Souther

a circular saw is, but I am greatly interested

g to the hous

ome papers to draw up and they won't wait. Next week is court week, and I've got

into the dining-room he saw there Cousin Sudie. Possibly the young gentleman was looking for her. I am sure I do not k

it possible that you

and cups too. In fact, I wash

what you understand by 'dishes,'

t pleasanter there by the window. 'Dishes?' Why, t

nly to platters and vegetable dishes. What do you call them in the aggrega

ngs,' 'tea things,' 'dinner things.' But why were yo

n impression that Southern ladies were wholly exempt from all

ge and the lawyers home with them at all sorts of odd hours; and they always bring the hungriest ones ther

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m greatly interested in this life here in Virginia, it is

keys, you know.

servants enough, cer

at least once a day. It would never do to tr

ciently careful and tru

here, and if a lady were to neglect it p

p things?' You see I am trying to learn all I can of a life which is as charmingly s

hall learn what they are, if you won't find it

elf interesting with you as

But if you're going to make pretty speeches I'll get impudent directly. I'm drea

pardon you

akes you say 'Virgi

se shoul

ekeepers, of course

You would not say 'England housekeepers' or '

Jersey housekeepers,' and so I say 'Virginia housekeepers,' too. I reckon you woul

on of my frank acknowledgment of defeat, perha

now, I can hardly believe such a thing po

What I want to ask is, why you Virginians so often use the word 'rec

's right,"

s not good Englis

hat's better for my purposes. Besides, it mu

hat the Apostle to the Gen

give out dinner now. Do you