In The Carolina Sea-islands

One gentlemen told me that several yoars ago he engaged in the entcrprise of raising Irisli potatoes for the Northern markets. He employed a gang of twonly negro woracn to dig and gather the potatoes. He was called from the field to the gin-house to attend to somo busi ness. He was absent from the field for a couple of hours. On his return he passed through a patch of weeds .nul stumbled over an apron filled with a bushei of selecled potatoes. He emptiod tho apron, and calling to the line of vromen who were digging potatoes, lie waved the garmeut aloft and nsked who had lost her apron. All the women but one turnad and shook their aprons at hini. Tliey jeered and tauntcd the thief for the rest of the day. That evening when they quit work the apronless woman stood onder a tree nntil all the other womeu had left the field, every one of them tauntingher as they passed. When they were all out of sight she walked up to the white man, humbly asked for her apron, and got it. Theo she made the white man promise nol to teil, not to betray her to the other nefroes, and, on his passing his word 1o er, she showed hini where the nineteen honest women had buriedtwentvbusliels of potatoes while he was absent.