In addition to the corn-meal and meat, we had a half pint of peas full of bugs."
They run like bugs on the bottom of a board--after any piece o' money they hear is loose.
For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement."