after
supper
about the
beginnings
of
Reconstruction.
Oh, of
course,
she knew
about the
Scallawags
–
Southerners
who had
turned
Republican
very
profitably
– and the
Carpetbaggers,
those
Yankees
who came
South like
buzzards
after the
surrender
with all
their
worldly
possessions
in one
carpetbag.
And she
had had a
few
unpleasant
experiences
with the
Freedmen’s
Bureau.
She had
gathered,
also, that
some of
the free
negroes
were
getting
quite
