Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in dialect have been left unchanged.
The figure labeled "Pallas" in the text is labeled "Chloe" in the list of illustrations.
A WOMAN RICE PLANTER
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
A WOMAN RICE PLANTER
PATIENCE PENNINGTON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
OWEN WISTER
AND
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ALICE R. H. SMITH
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913
All rights reserved
Copyrighted 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907,
By THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.
Copyright, 1913,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
MY FATHER
TO WHOSE EXAMPLE OF SELF-CONTROL AND CHRISTIAN
FORTITUDE, I OWE THE POWER TO LIVE MY
LIFE INDEPENDENT OF EXTERNALS, I
DEDICATE THESE FRAGMENTARY
RECORDS, ON THIS THE ONE
HUNDRED AND TWELFTH
ANNIVERSARY OF
HIS BIRTH
Chicora Wood,
April 21st, 1913.
INTRODUCTION
While the influences and mechanisms of the present worldtend to make all parts of it alike in thought and in costume,the various nooks and corners of our own country are graduallylosing their original highly accentuated characteristics, and aremerging into a general similarity. Most of what you hear andsee any morning in the towns of Massachusetts you will hearand see in Omaha, Denver, Seattle, or anywhere else, becausethe department stores advertise and sell the same kind ofclothes everywhere at the same time, and the same news iseverywhere published in the daily papers.
Our American literature is therefore very lucky to have producedits Jewetts, Wilkinses, Cables, Craddocks, Pages, andHarrises, who have well set down for our perpetual interestand instruction the evaporating charm of their chosen fields.
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