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...journeyman painter who rode from door to door with canvases on which the body was already painted so that only the head needed to be added. There must have been a picture of Ethan. It is probably still in existence, hidden away in some obscure attic or barn...
...horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting the entry of Fomka's flower-wreathed bride, the crowd repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come through the gate is a baby, the second a kitten, finally the bride, to the stirring strains of the "Internationale." Best shot: priests, farmers, woman, and cripples, marching with...
...with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about him, shots riddled his body...
...Vienna, Ga., O. H. Winsfrey became melancholy, shot his two mules to death, set fire to his barn, set fire to his home, killed himself with a shotgun...
...killing sparrows, the hunters select a large roomy barn where they know these pestiferous birds spend the night. They climb up among the rafters, choosing a perch where they can have full use of their arms. Then lights are flashed and as the rudely-awakened, bewildered birds flutter blindly about they are struck down with brooms and clubs...