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hot day. There was as much as a thousand people there, from twenty mile

around. The woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding

out of the wagon troughs and stomping to keep off the flies. There was sheds

made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and

gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.

The preaching was going on under the same kinds of sheds, only they was

bigger and held crowds of people. The benches was made out of outside slabs of

logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs. They

didn't have no backs. The ssssssssss

preachers had high platforms ssssssssss

to stand on, at one end of the ssssssssss

sheds. The women had on sun- ssssssssss

bonnets: and some had linsey- ssssssssss

woolsey frocks, some gingham ssssssssss

ones, and a few of the young ssssssssss

ones had on calico.' Sonic of the ssssssssss

young men was barefooted, and ssssssssss

some of the children didn't have ssssssssss

on any clothes but just a tow- ssssssssss

linen shirt. Some of the old ssssssssss

women was knitting, and some ssssssssss

of the young folks was courting ssssssssss

on the sly. ssssssssss

The first shed we come to,

the preacher was lining out a ssssssssss

hymn. He lined out two lines, ssssssssss

everybody sung it, and it was ssssssssss

was so many of them and they ssssssssss

done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing --

and so on. The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and louder;

and towards the end, some begun to groan, and some begun to shout. Then the

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