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appearing to her fess. She walks sad Wks as though
She is tired. Oa womb of my visits to the house eke
bed just eeme to from bier work, grading tibeeee. Mar
tray settee dress was tee aid and folded to be milled
a house dress sad she sailed it, hy way of swim,
Noy work eiethee," Her felks were *just AMOAOSSO*
mod famers always. ?be sebeei she ettended se a
girl oily lasted fear menthe to the year. As she pat
it, *1 bagel' going with Id whoa 1 wee fifteen mad
fess meaths later we raa off fres wheel mad get
married. I was too young to bore am, eemee and hadn't
had mmeh i. I reekoa 1 deserve to hove a hard time
She was eme ef mine ohne/sea sad has five it her MIL
'Three ef my yeomen* get merried whoa they wasn't
mush elder thee I was. I still have twe a% hese.
Wally, then., is seventeen. Mhe stayed eat of seheel
three years after Ohs neighed the seveath vitae sod
veered ski weralt going book booms. she didalt like
seheel." Oliiy broke in as our talk smiling it me
with OPerkling bleak eyes, and esti, Mat l's sit it
again; I'm to taw ilighth swede sad Ita heels' s geed
time." Muddle is leurieea mad is to the evveath grade
of the Ohapel till Wheel.
"I do beam work sad work as the ram ilk. a
mos," Mazy seld. 'IA ham Wiese I's up at daylight
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end by dark I'm too Wieepy to reed. Rein is sometimes
e blessing. 'More rein, more rest." The children do
all they oen otter school, on Setardeyasand in the
summer, but they don't get tired like me.'
The Jecksons byre the only log house in the
immediete neighborhood. In fact, two log houses three
feet sport have been °Ganef:1W and the two give scant
epees for the featly. The house is close to the rood
end the shade trees ere et the rear. The yard is sandy
POO there is not e flower or e shrub in sight. The
house is deubbed with white mud end is net celled, but
hoe been worsened. Jackson said there era five rooms
but tary sold there are only four. "I don't know how
come there ain't five," Jeckeon countered. I nulokly
showed my edmirrtion for the trble which held the
children's school books end some nagrsines. This
table w*s about telm feet by two end e half foot, fairly
new end of mash better materials then anything in the
house. "I got thet from a friend in towns" Miry
espleined. The front room in which we were sitting is
e bedroom. The double bed looks esbetential with its
plain, iron frame. The floor made of rough pine is
fair. The windows boast of no ornament other than
the fpded, torn shedes. There were two dressers in
the roots. The only deoorations on the wells were three
enlarged pietas** of relatives and the heed of a deer.
A daub/A.-barrelled shot.gan hung on pegs in one *armor.
The kitchen is beck of tho bedroom. wood piled
half way to the low ceiling is used for foal. The
table is covered with bright red oilcloth. A new,
°booked linoleum covers half of the floor. 1 hound
deg and a eollie kept their eyes snored while I walked
over them on watering the kitohen.
A narrow hell leads to the two bedrooms in the
ether volition of the house. Each of those mons has
a double bed. Sally hes the front room and the other
is claimed by Huddle.
This house ham recently gotten elsotrio lights.
The University of North Oarolins runs its lines only
as far as this house. Other families east of the
Jeckson* have signed up for lights bat at present the
university is unable to serve than. An electric iron
is the only electric appliance, but if they have a
better crop and bettor prises, next year they will get
either a washing.mschine or a Melvinstor like the
nearest neighbor has."
I took from the study-ttable a copy of The 6outhern
flAptigx. Sally* seeing ay interest, handed ms
Country um sad Miajdjkliaajimagilia. They also take
the jgatuguiagidasjigult. The only books in the house
Er0 two Bibles and ewe *shoe' boa..
The Jaoksoas cultivate 3.6 acres of tobacco, sad,
since they do not find It profitable to raise cotton,
tobeoco is their money crop. The tobacco crop last
year brought Jsokson $460.00 but the excess of rein
tnd the poor prices this year will out the returns on
this crop. Jackson furnishes a third of the fertiliser
for the corn and r fourth for the tobacco and receives
P like proportion of this yield. Nineteen sores
corn will furnish the fanny its meal and in large
measure food the two nulos,(j)hogs, end s large flock
od
of chickens. The Orchard and ordain furnish/this you
ninety Quarts of poaches, forty *marts of berries, and
sixty euarts of vegetables. Jeckeon will sell this
year vegetables for fly* dollars Pad eggs for twenty
dollars. He borrows =coy from s friend at six percent
interest in securing his past of the fertilises. The
landowner has not been celled on to furnish pantry
supplies or efts**, money for any purpose. He has ma
old oat but osnnot afford to sun it. His family rides
to the Mt. Osrnel Baptist Church with the neighbors;
and when this is not convenient e they walk to church.
rertasetely, the Jaokoons have h,11 very little illness
and very little money has gone towards doctor's bills.
Jaokson almsys votes the straight "Roosevelt
ticket" as a pleasare End e duty. Mrs. Jackson votes
only from 0 sense of duty. They think the ooantry
is prospering under the Nem peal mere than in ether
years. "I get my share from the owners" Jackson says,
"but neither of us gets whet', coming to us. If us
farmers mould stiok tOgethar like the merchants do,
we could get more for our stuff." Although he has
no complaints against the lamdomnar, he has moved on
the everege every third year 'hoping to do bettor
et the next place.' Be hes dons e lot of thinking
about owning s form but has not yet seen r may to
ownership.
Jackson hunts end fishes in his leisure time. On
apturday afternoons the family walks or rides with
neighbor into Chapel Hill. sally is "going steady
with Bill Young," the eon of e neighboring farmer.
Bill poossionally gets the use of his futherts oer
and they go "gallivanting" around the country to
chars -best fairs, ball -games, and movies. Lially lives
too far from Chapel hill to take part in the social
life of the high school end must leave for howls in
the school bus promptly after school is out.