Word: horselaughing
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...whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full...