Working in tobacco, to whose culture he had been used, he could hold his hand with the best: how would it be in this new business of cotton-picking?
I was too late to see the cotton-picking, and too early for the chopping-out and hoeing, but in season to witness the preparation of the ground for planting.
It was cotton-picking time, a few months after our marriage, and, the crop being unusually large, my master sent my wife to work in the field.
All they are fit for is education for cotton-picking and dish-washing.
When they have learned their manual alphabet tolerably well, they are placed in the field to take a spell at cotton-picking.
It is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.
It is left in this condition until after cotton-picking is over, whether earlier or later.
At first cotton-picking was interesting, the fluffy bolls looking like artificial roses and the stray blossoms strangely shaped and delicately pink.
