My pride was in the labors of the field.
Mother did the spinning.

The standing dye-stuff was the inner bark of the white walnut, from which we obtained that peculiar and permanent shade of dull yellow, the butternut [so common and typical in the clothing of the backwoods farmer].

Oak bark, with copper as a mordant, when father had money to purchase it, supplied the ink with which I learned to write.

I drove the horses to and from the range, and salted them.

I tended the sheep, and hunted up the cattle in the woods." [Footnote: _Do_., pp.