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  1.  The Odd Women / Gissing, George, 1857-1903
    you about this lady--Miss Barfoot. She has private means--not large, but sufficient to allow of her combining ... have evening lessons, but our pupils for the most part are able to come in the day. Miss Barfoot hasn't much  details...
  2.  Jacob's Room / Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
    Flanders's letters to Captain Barfoot--many-paged, tear- stained. Scarborough is seven hundred miles from Cornwall: Captain Barfoot is in Scarborough: Seabrook is dead. Tears made all the dahlias in her garden ...  details...
  3.  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 / Work Projects Administration
    to meetin's a fur piece off. Dey was all fixed up in deir Sunday clothes and dey walked barfoots wid deir ... , so as to git dar on time. Us wouldn't wear our shoes on dem long walks, but jus' went barfoots 'til us got  details...
  4.  Th' Barrel Organ / Waugh, Edwin, 1817-1890
    ' yorsel'. Barfoot folk should never walk upo' prickles." He then turned, and walked off ... what thae'rt doin' with it.' So Robin, an' Barfoot Sam, an' Little Wamble, 'at looks after th' horses at 'Th  details...
  5.  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives / Work Projects Administration
    , he neva wood low me to go barfooted, caus he wuz afraid I'd stick thorns in my feet, an if he eva caut me barfooted, he sho wod make my back tell it. Wen he lef me in Paducah, his neffu took me over to my ant, Rose ...  details...
  6.  Puddnhead Wilson / Twain, Mark
    as a provision for her old age. She said in the start that she had "put shoes on one bar'footed nigger ...  details...
  7.  Georgia Narratives, Part 1 / Work Projects Administration
    bell at 10:00 o'clock for us to go to bed. Us made bolts and bolts of cloth evvy year. "Us went bar'foots ...  details...
  8.  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives / Work Projects Administration
    ." "Our Marster 'lowed us ter go ter chuch. I went bar'foot en had a rag tied 'roun mah haid en mah dress ...  details...
  9.  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    as a provision for her old age. She said in the start that she had "put shoes on one bar'footed nigger to tromple ...  details...