Possible Clues:

• Sloppy penmanship
• Write clumsily, hardly legible
• Write poorly
• Crawls away from bad writing
• At first, start to go slowly, then write hurriedly
• Illegible hand
• Might the South not stand on its own feet and not feel well?
• Scribbled writing
• Hasty writing that is crude ending for novel
• Hurried writing