Ellen had her first adult school to-day, in the back room —
nine scholars. I assisted.
The girls were much interested in seeing the people come,
with their flat baskets on their heads, to the cornhouse, to "take
allowance," and then sit down in the sand, and old and young fall to
shelling the corn from the cob with a speed that was marvellous, the little
babies toddling about or slung on the backs of their mammies, or lugged about
by the older sisters, not able to stand straight under their weight. It was
very picturesque.
SOURCE: Rupert Sargent Holland, Editor, Letters and
Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina
1862-1864, p. 70
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