8/15 It was after supper, and we were all husking corn in the barn. Old Anderson and young Tom Anderson and Mrs.Maloney were helping us. We were to assist them the following week. The barn was illuminated by fat-lamps, which made the spiders in the rafters uneasy and disturbed the slumbers of a few fowls that for months had insisted on roosting on the cross-beam. She was claiming to have husked two cobs to his one, when the dogs started barking savagely. |