1 One dollar and ten cents is the cash price in town.
2 Josie helped them to sell the old farm, and they moved nearer town.
3 It is the cheerfulest schoolhouse I have seen in Dougherty, save in town.
4 We were riding along the highroad to town at the close of a long hot day.
5 Five miles below here is a town owned and controlled by one white New Englander.
6 Six days in the week the town looks decidedly too small for itself, and takes frequent and prolonged naps.
7 The dull monotony of daily toil is broken only by the gayety of the thoughtless and the Saturday trip to town.
8 Four and six bobtailed thoroughbreds rolled their coaches to town; open hospitality and gay entertainment were the rule.
9 For these there is one other avenue of escape toward which they have turned in increasing numbers, namely, migration to town.
10 A rod farther on we noted another ear on the ground; and between that creeping mule and town we counted twenty-six ears of corn.
11 But a change is coming, and slowly but surely even here the agricultural laborers are drifting to town and leaving the broad acres behind.
12 Back toward town we glided, past the straight and thread-like pines, past a dark tree-dotted pond where the air was heavy with a dead sweet perfume.
13 I had crossed the stream at Watertown, and rested under the great willows; then I had gone to the little cabin in the lot where Josie was resting on her way to town.
14 His store, which used most frequently to stand at the cross-roads and become the centre of a weekly village, has now moved to town; and thither the Negro tenant follows him.
15 If he is ambitious, he moves to town or tries other labor; as a tenant-farmer his outlook is almost hopeless, and following it as a makeshift, he takes the house that is given him without protest.
16 But on Saturday suddenly the whole county disgorges itself upon the place, and a perfect flood of black peasantry pours through the streets, fills the stores, blocks the sidewalks, chokes the thoroughfares, and takes full possession of the town.
17 The system of labor and the size of the houses both tend to the breaking up of family groups: the grown children go away as contract hands or migrate to town, the sister goes into service; and so one finds many families with hosts of babies, and many newly married couples, but comparatively few families with half-grown and grown sons and daughters.
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