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would not harm so much as a hair of her head. but have done all and more than could he expected from under the circumstances.
The hands now working in the crop are the regular farm hands, and the only reason why more are not to work is because she would not allow them to do so; preferring rather than feed them now that they are free, to do without their services: those who worked in the crop had no incourggment to labor; so she miseriably told them that she would not pay them anything whatever.  the  [[?]] those of them who did not work in the house or wash and iron and cook, had each a certain allowance of cotton to spin each month, and if they failed through sickness or other cause to bring in their work at the regular time their rations were immediately cut off;  it is true the house work is distributed among quite a number, but it seems that at any cost she is determined to have a servant for each particular work, as I found none unimployed and it seems to me that they worked cheerfully.  I may say that I have never yet seen a more cheerful and smilling set of servants and I should not be afraid to say that I believe that I could accomplish any reasonable amount of work with them.
The force permitted to work in the crop have done exceedingly well; as I was informed by the 
answer considering the tools they had to work with;  the answer said that the tools were more than worn out 2 years ago yet with this same tools she expected these poor people to accomplish wonders.  had she procured the necessary implements her crop would be nearly double with the same number of hands; As it is she has