They set them at work yesterday morning, and they had nearly put all the cotton into the schooners at dinner time.
To make the niggers work harder, they gave them apple jack." "What is that ?" asked the engineer, who never heard the name before.
"It is liquor made out of apples, and it is very strong," answered Dolly; and he might have added that it was the vilest intoxicant to be found in the whole world, not even excepting Russian vodka.
"And this liquor made the hands drunk, I suppose." "They did not give them enough for that, sir; but it made them kind of crazy, and they wanted more of it.

That made the trouble; the hands struck for liquor before dinner, and when they didn't get it, they took to the woods, about fifty of them.

The soldiers had to get their dinner before they would start out after them; and that is the reason the schooners are not full now, sir, and not a bale had been put into this steamer." "But she seems to be fully loaded now." "Yes, sir; Captain Lonley paid the soldiers that were left to load the Havana.

They worked till eleven in the evening; they were not used to that kind of work, and they got mighty tired, I can tell you," said Dolly, with the first smile Christy had seen on his yellow face, for he appeared to enjoy the idea of a squad of white men doing niggers' work.
"That was what made them sleep so soundly, and leave the battery on the point to take care of itself," said Christy.

"Where were the officers ?" "Two of them have gone on the hunt for the hands, and I reckon the captain is on a visit to a planter who has a daughter, about forty miles from here." "The soldiers were sleeping very soundly in the barrack about two this morning; and perhaps they were also stimulated with apple jack," added Christy.