January, 1922 
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enemies. That shows what astonishing 
powers of vitality these wild things have. 
The deer that were coming in the corn 
have quit that now and are taking to the 
peavines. Next they will visit the sweet 
potato vines. Old man Cumbee, down 
the road, says that in the fall the bucks 
will dig out the potatoes with their hoofs 
and horns, and I have known them thus 
to fork out peanuts. As yet, however, 
I have not witnessed the potato stunt. 
I found, by the way, a dropped antler 
that I am sure belongs to that cornfield 
buck. It is a massive and craggy affair, 
carrying eight points. The size and 
weight of this antler give me the wear- 
er’s number. You and I shall visit him 
in due season. 
O UR peaches behind the house are 
ripening, and upon them some of 
the negroes on the place have been cast- 
ing languishing glances. When a negro 
begins to roll his eyes at a peach tree it 
is a killing glance, all right. He is flirt- 
ing: making a date for a secret meeting. 
Reading the. signs of the times, I decided 
to “stricken” the tree while a good many 
of our dusky friends were watching me. 
To do this I take a little wheat-flour 
in the palm of my hand, approach the 
tree in the most grim fashion, scratch 
the bark with my knife, and then rub in 
some of the flour. The news that I 
have poisoned the peaches will spread 
like scandal, and the tree will be safe. 
Fortunately, no negro has yet questioned 
why I could eat poisoned peaches and he 
could not. It is a fine thing for a negro 
.to get a good scare while he is doing 
wrong. For instance, one day down at 
'Oakland, a negro was stealing sweet po- 
tatoes. A giant buck that some hunters 
|had roused far back in the woods jumped 
jthe fence and raced across the field, al- 
most knocking over the negro, who was 
down on his knees. The thief got such 
a fright by what he believed to be a 
phantom that he came to the plantation 
house, confessed to the owner, and has 
since become a deacon in the church. 
It might be a good thing for some of the 
rest of us if we could see a hant or 
spook of some kind when we happened 
to be trying to put over something shady. 
By the way, I developed a regular pil- 
ferer here this summer. We began to 
miss eggs, and I suspected a hound. I 
knew that the thief was crawling through 
the hen-hole. One morning I daubed the 
sides of the hole with red paint. An 
hour later old Lucy appeared on the 
scene — decorated ! I had suspected some 
of the other dogs, but not her. I must 
give her away. Do you know anybody 
up North who wants a nice gentle pet 
with no bad habits but egg-sucking and 
old age? 
Much of my time these days is spent 
down on the ricefield edges, keeping an 
eye on the crops there. But I have to 
watch my step. I never knew so many 
large cotton-mouth moccasins to be 
abroad. This snake is a bad actor. He 
is in no hurry to get out of the way. He 
does have one singular method of warn- 
ing. If you come within the danger 
zone, he will open his mouth very wide, 
hissing slowly; and the blotch of white 
that is his mouth, suddenly appearing in 
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