[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER IV 56/64
The nigger go hang! A white boy with an engine can outdo a dozen of 'em.
Cotton and corn for staple crops; peaches, figs, scuppernongs, vegetables, melons for incidental crops; God's good air in North Carolina; good roads, too--why, man, Moore County has authorized the laying out of a strip of land along all highways to be planted in shrubbery and fruit trees and kept as a park, so that you will motor for 100 miles through odorous bloom in spring!--I mean I am going down there to-morrow for a month, one day for golf at Pinehurst, the next day for clearing land with an oil locomotive, ripping up stumps! Every day for life out-of-doors and every night, too.
I'm going to grow dasheens.
You know what a dasheen is? It's a Trinidad potato, which keeps and tastes like a sweet potato stuffed with chestnuts.
There are lots of things to learn in this world. God bless us all, old man.
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