Bonaventure : a Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Bonaventure : a Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925
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The ga!6rie just now was scattered with the husband's appliances for making P6rique tobacco into " carats " — the carat-press. Its small, iron-ratcheted, wooden windlass extended along the top rail of the balustrade across one of the galeae's ends. Lines of half-inch grass rope, for wrapping the carats into diminished bulk and solid shape, lay along under foot. Beside one of the doors, in deep hickory baskets, were the parcels of cured tobacco swaddled in cotton cloths and ready for the torture... of ropes and windlass. From the joists overhead hung the pods of tobacco-seed for next year's planting. CHAPTER III. THE HANDSHAKING. ' These was news in Grande Pointe. The fair noon sky above, with its peaceful flocks of clouds; the solemn, wet forest round about ; the harvested fields ; the dishevelled, fragrant fallows ; the reclining, rumi- nating cattle ; the little chapel of St. Vincent de Paul in the midst, open for mass once a fortnight, for a sermon in French four times a year, — these were not iiore tranquil in the face of the fact that a schoolmaster dad come to Grande Pointe to stay than outwardly Appeared the peaceful-minded villagers.
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