fence rail

“Why, Sir, there wan't a picture or a piece of furniture or a statuary in that old home that wan't only seasoned with age, but had a store of valuableness to it besides, and you passive and peaceable, taking the news all quiet as if it had been nothing but a fence rail burnt up, and telling me to my face, and me a-bustin 'out with damnation from every pore, that you had heard of the fire, that Mr. Enroughty had reported the burning of Turkey Island yesterday!”

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America

“He was held back in his travels after he came upon a little-sized woman sitting humped up on a fence rail crying for her dead girl.”

Cold Mountain

“No one knew his origins, but his name was Legion, and the first day he appeared in the field one worker, who had been a convict on Angola Farm, looked into Legion’s face and at first opportunity leaned his hoe against a fence rail and walked seven miles back to New Iberia and never returned to ask for his pay.”

Simon & Schuster: Jolie Blon’s Bounce