Tobacco out of the woods?

 

(Elkin Tribune) ... One summer when I was a teenager I did try my hand at priming, or picking, tobacco for some neighborhood farmers. I found priming tobacco backbreaking work as you must stoop over and pick leaves and stuff them under an arm while shuffling down rows. The first priming, with leaves at ground level, was the worst of it.
... In the fields with us was a neighbor kid not even 10 years old, and you’d wonder what was he doing out in the field. But the little kid was closer to the ground, and with that advantage he’d scoot down those long rows faster than anybody. To my embarrassment, the kid could prime circles around me. Continued