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100	1		_aHaynes, Williams, _d1886-1970
245	1	0	_aSandhills sketches
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Illustrated with photographs by the author and others."
500			_a"Pages from a note book kept during a winter spent in the Piedmont Country of North Carolina... With one exception the ... sketches have been published in various magazines."
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-26
505	0		_aDodging winter -- "Them Huggins boys" -- A Sandhills Christmas carol -- "Tar burnin'" -- Some quail dogs and others -- The clay birds -- Through a jungle to the Old South.
508			_aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a“Sandhills Sketches” by Williams Haynes is a collection of regional sketches written in the early 20th century. Drawn from a winter spent in North Carolina’s Sandhills, it blends travel writing, local color, and sporting pieces with portraits of country folk and their work. Expect vivid scenes of longleaf-pine country, quail hunting and trap shooting, tar burning, small-town superstition, and a canoe descent of the Lumbee into the old plantation belt. It will appeal to readers who enjoy Southern landscapes, field sports, and character-rich vignettes. The opening of the collection sets the scene by praising the Sandhills as an ideal refuge from Northern winter, sketching its dry, rolling pine country and the people met while bird hunting (including a wary backwoodsman who may be guarding a still). It then profiles “them Huggins boys,” notorious poor neighbors first met in a comic, testy exchange over eggs and a stolen pipe, before widening into a snapshot of “poor old Moore County” and the region’s shift from turpentine and tar to resorts, dairies, and modern farming—leaving families like the Hugginses behind. A rainy Christmas day brings Aunt Sally and Uncle Willis, a lively lesson in “conjurin’,” and a railroad man’s prank that exploits those fears. “Tar Burnin’” gives a step‑by‑step, boots-on-the-ground account of building and firing a pine tar kiln with Uncle Willis, marred by rain, barrel shortages, a flare‑up that burns away profits, and his rueful talk of bad luck. The hunting sketches introduce distinct dog personalities—plodding “Joe,” high‑strung “Queen,” Capt’n Evans’s team, and the celebrated setter “Prince”—and reflect on the partnership and discipline that make great bird dogs. A fireside debate leads into “The Clay Birds,” defending the skill and clean appeal of trap shooting and tracing its rapid rise. Finally, a canoe voyage down the Lumbee unfurls a twisting, little‑known river through pine woods, wildlife, and cypress jungle to the eerie Buzzard Flats and, at last, glimpses of old plantations—where the narrative breaks off mid-journey. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1916
653			_aNorth Carolina -- Description and travel
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/sandhillsketches00hayn
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78048
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