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Pcbruar7 27, 1939 ()irat ettn4
r, .7. T. hitlook
(Aleut)
Hendersonville, n. C.
Lulinto thabry and
Frank ,*atosimino (Interviewers)
Frank :aesialflo (Alter)
April 17. 19,9 (Revised)
Mkt
oriaigo1 amps,
J. T. 4h flask
HenAeraonv11144
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Bolan whitlocr
lie. Nhitloek
Vary rhitloek
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21.
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cleaulasan,
:awes J. Dunlap
Lawreneeville, N. C.
Pomo, 54, C.
Jessie (Hale) Dunlap
Solna Dunlap
Myra Dunlap
flAtr,-::3. ntlfilatb ::x-Irt •1111ALIciT
As I turnod off Vain btreet in Lawrenoeville, whit*
is one of Western North Carolina's mountain resort towns,
I found myeelf in what apparently, was real estate row.
rive or six out of the don °Moos in the blot* had
shingles hIng out announcing the nature of the business
conducted on the inside. The street fronting the offices
was teeming with Ample; but nobody seemed to have busts.
nese with the real estate a4entn. Cars :vulled up. lissen
lore got out. But they loeke,! their oar doors and joined
the strew-, of people movin, toward :ain ArPot or crossed
the otreet and disa?peored inside the post office. 7 4nzed
throu,,:h the window of one oartioularly iloomr.loo-An1 offiee
and wondered how the a:ents fared. Then, after a moment of
hesitation, 1 felt the ur:e to step inside and find out.
On entorin., I found the office cionta'ned several desks
and severol men, none of the letter of whom De:d me the least
attention. one was ohamelessly slrepin4, his feet mopped,
cronsed on the deal( in fr:Jnt of him. Another eat reading
a newspaper; and yet another mat ckind away at a
writer plaoed x a ne4r the ontranoe. NPOWItiV of his
proxlmity, I elproached this non first.
He sous a brogli -,awierfulisappeurIng hulk of a man; and,
over thoudh he wenn neate4 h-ehInd a dce, there was not so
cuch the a:vsara ee of un aent nbout
A
there was that
of a foreefUl, picturesque eattle..baron of a bygone era.
Ho wore a hat, as did the other nen in the room. But his
was broad-brintoed end b1e. He appearct! to be well over
six foot in height, with nuscular arms and a barrei..like
chest. Even eentol, eould nee tht he must dwarf most
iSett.
"How do you do, nr....r.o..
7 be. no
)unlap," he snaved.„ loWinn up. "Janes J. *)niapo"
alio °lid how's business, !!ro nunlap?" T asked.
"Business he an rted. "what business"
"Thy, the real estate busInefin, of ooursei"
"Ask a real estate man."
1 thouiht you were one."
ell, l'n not."
"I'm sorry."
"You n edn't be.
"will you Mors a oil rotten
"flow you're talAnit %moo Sit downi"
Over a carvtte, this an w4sn't AS ,bruff AS he pre.•
tended to be. He won an event, but he wasn't enlaged in
the real estate business, Fe wan an agent for a Balti,lore
firm of clothiers that dealt in #16.60 measurod*by.agents,
tailor.made ler.lents f-ir nen; and he occasionally dropped
in here to write out his orders.
":loo of the owners t allow you to do that,"
sell, why the hell emuldn't they?"
o offense*"
"1 di(In't may there was,
:;o* 1-11, then, what if, the reason'
"You'll laugh when I tell
Voros
roffored•
Lhen I told him that wouldn't, he evidently believed
because his newer sheng*,442. He loakel his fingers bsd.
bind his head and settled back in his °heir. His hard
cynicism oben4ed into a Idn4 of bluff heartineas*
Then," he said, "I'll tell you. It's beoause ones I
me a lent here• j damn lood one, too* here at
this very desk I °nee aligned a eontraet to buy a '40,000
hoU440 whieh
"tut look here," he said* "I *anti tell 7ou about it
in d few words* Thin thing oce book quite a way; and
maybe you're in a hurry* :4ow If you wont to listen, I'll
go back to the beAinnina* If you don't well, it's up to
IOU
How does it be n" ;4rotapted,
"Damn poor," he said. Literally, I m -nn• 2 landed
mimeo): into the lip of poverty the moment I arrived in this
world. That was fifty years 4tgo. Fiftposix, to be comet*
1 was born on a eotton 21antation near now, Couth Caroline,
we didn't own it. Ve didn't ownt dnnn thing* Not
oven do4.
we just the olu rarer there. The
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all it amounted to. :ust o title and a lot of rotten, hard,
unprofltoble oork. And I'm tellinl you that it wnen't any
fun for anybody. Mks my mother, for Inatome. Jhe had
eight of ue olds to etre for, besides eookino for a dozen
nicer field heath). she didI All that, besides can-.
nine ane mendino and °leaning up after her awn tornad.
sometimes, low; after pad came in from the fields, and after
we'd done to bed, we'd hear her eleaninz up the suooer mesa
or wushial *lathes lo that we'd have oiethinr clean for
the next y, somotlmes, even, serubbing floors by the
rooht of a kerosene lamp. I'll not soon foroet how worn
out she used/alk and then .go out and outwork lad in the
fields, and him n liant boiiide her, too. Yet and it's a
damm funny thInl she outlived him at thott
wires friend, tOey sny there's nore to o womn than
there seems to and, reevoAtng my own. mother, I believe
that. Of oeuree, ny father workod hard from morn,n1 Itil
niqht„ too. Idon't mac. for -04 to oat the tnpreasion that
he. hod It easy. He hod to werk if we were to be fed, And
the border he vforked the more he mode. At lost, it was
suoposed to work out that way. It never d; but that lees
the stuff the owner fed him on.
You see, he ald my fotoer
on percentae boots, say a thiro. of the ore/ or n third
of the ir,ee it broulht or the morlret. That's why he
spouted that 'hareer the work, the better the (mop' stuff,
-ow maybe
under nornal candit.ons trvit
works out. But on theft .planUtion ,u)st pears, the cotton
was of the 'Bumble Bee' varlety
n, elarce, :r%de C
stuff thut riel4e4 t e lrower far lops tt.4n the damn stuff
cost to %;lant and cult 1y0 ou eoul uor;4: your head off
and still not cat results. That Is, tone eteept a hell of
a lot of blisters
noth'n4 but re cla
father finally, and
ening be dellne41 y, the lead's
tOugh and unyieldin
had never savad as
It 3ot my
e 4 y thoulti how
4 would be expe te4 to Is beyond se to bury
.y mother borroww srAme money.'re, don't know.
got it and bir1ed him In a decent enou3b pine
r father 3 d =7 own bop
ho That and the fcat that I went to sehuol only three
menths of the year be tuse tht' li the .tete plid for.
I don't Metal to say that the school term wee only three
months. It lone really six. Lut three nonths of It lifts
free and three zzonths wls at the
Well, y fa4ily lacked oLey, so
I didn't think then and
ex,-pense of the parents.
wont to este4o1 only durw.
in the :Mats -paid ttrm., don't
think now, thfat
sr very lucc,Ty mean, even as et boy
ante t- go to school te ttz six months. tolgine
that nowadays, these dszin kided jump et the chance
hnd. hat Is, they would un,
sent a .Ytions. But
In those days, when I wasn't in aehol,
t to work
t n the fiell,s under a re, hot sun, and ns ny )1t were
taskmasters, It
Look here, friend," Js unepsuenly out In an
bi self, fishinl cut rdneh of tobaceo and a Imper„ which
he proeeedpd to rail exlertly into a elarette, °how mueh
of thla d"you want to beer
1.1, there's tilt:It ;4C
a3sumial an attitude of enccwsd
t's don't eUeve that7"'
szeured Mn t'at I di4; thou0 or the first tine I
noticed tht his nose wAs of a hue that bes,oke frequent
bouts with the bottle and thnt hie Ill -f tting grey suit
vms znotted and stained with a earelesaness *lief, I hol'ed
didn't extend to his verneity• Rut any doubts whleh may
have rung from what I observed were 13medintely di 1 ed.
Tor a ,,unin7.,) indulently nt me, and, leaning
across the des beekoree to a dour -ford n ncross the
'hatn the mLn cane, Ire were in t€ while lap
indicated whAit we were d' cuasin3, and nemarl;ed that he
bed for:;otten just what he had 74114 for his former bone.
wYou mean that Yeln -;treet ,ropert
3ualep nWdod•
,etto soe.,“ The dour -faced .ce.n uatvd btokhis hat.
He Wh6 evlently nental calculatirs. Men finally
he said, 41t vs around t44,1CC., with the Interest, 7in."
)11nlal,) evidently th%lught this verifiction to be quite
enoul!-,, for he throw the dour-fnced mcn e !thort "thins,4
and when we were iit t1t continue wt!-ut so .-Tueh air
an exoldnat'on. "Atern WA8 It" he ImId. 43h, yes
"17811, was in the sixth Triie when my father died.
:'11 not nay %Jan rerlenler er:tnç tiv't ha 'en itd brat
In those days, but 7 do 011A 7 quit school and went
to work had to, in fact, )ec,s!uete -17/ f,t er's death was
a 'low, financially spca'Kin, thQt fart!ly wouldh't have
rocovered from unles I
7ot 1 lob in a ner.:rby
hosiery mill. The wa3es wero snail six dollars a wnek
and the hnure wore lon,3 sever-, In the arirnin.7 to six at
Iht.7-rut it ws n. ;71,7:11. slIht .vetter'n or in the fields;
and I was ,:.11sttinI ?aid for it' fc.1 there -7 11=12' It f'.1.1rteen,
suo?ort!ing seven kids and my noVtor.*
tecnne silent, too of his apectacles, ;Ind yawned
2r02:3iously. A*1.0% behind the hand rai7ed to stifle the
yam he remnfted:
"%ulte dr order for n youn&stcr, eh*
giulte.,* alrved•
'Ain," he swtinued, 7o;liccing his sllectucles, It
didn't last 'gbout n year. After that, 7 was
on riy y rothers f7und jobs. Tne Sister married at
fifteen. Another left home to '?..tan housr old cou:Ae
over in iose. :etveor. the five lads left tTle they
managed to %eke it f,asier for my nether V:tin no had had
it durini her .thole 1itet1e or, at any rite, !:ice ahe
hed been married. zo, hwIrded eut, nenr the nill.
had btren )41fty fra hoef for over a year. Ath: I didn't
mind 441,ing alone tit way.
"Of cure, there wus Jessie. That's the ;!r1 I arried.
worke,f: nt the 11 too. Att she w ll alone. he
was an orphan hr folkn were dales, descendants of
:lethen Hale. el were thrown to.wther a lot and tecane
Onwted in the course or thin, sInds after Tvld 2aseed
a7 seventeenth birthday, :td after 1 had h4: --on made a fore-
men at the -71aat, we set t 'rte to married. :',,unday
same Around, thTA the day she had --lowed, and we set
out. -he 114:441 hbr ;rter with her. d iht was more isr-
portilat, had tw-t) don- a for the ,Ireacher's fee. As
for zlyself, scnrcoly hi enu-,7, to rert ,$-;7or. to silrry
us to the !c:)t:st church, eitt 7111es away.4
*How titi Je::els Lre;ther fi.;ure :n your 71ans-*
*1 was co=lni to that. ';,anne41 if he fit in very well."
'chat did he do -w
4ll* first of all, he mnde a dmaned nuisance of him,
;self all during the ride. He as suoeet t. tiet as slt-
nese for us. But he wanted to merry us. ou e, he vas
one of those selfi.ordeinnd country preachers himself, and
h* wati ':.a.0, -„es he wanted to perform the .Yer•Exuxy on the
spot for whnt money we had. He badgered tie every minute
of tte rtie. ;Appy worries a rag. ,1t. first Ipaid
him little ettentIon. ut he was so donned 7)e7cistent
that finallyweakeneW
"'Did be marry you, then"
fiTagured without Jersie. loni; aa she had
zone that for, she liv.sn't of.Tv;' to be tend a church 'toed
ding. 'AlenT ave in to her brother. she turned on me
and S4ia: V71110h111 it be A church weAin.! or no ww:dinfT,
at all -1 7b:it snap:led me :nit or it. And It shut up her
brother, too. were marrie•I 114e she wtnted It."
ehuckled and settled his arms a:.1ro, the desk.
",41 :ust have mAde 6 ?retty ;.air," he lau5hed, and 7 Ma
17AASCI t0 zee the -7,1(v4:3uro whIch lihted up his faos•
n'llat a coule of %Ads :ust cau?le of damn fool
nee '.7 -)re he 1..-1-oo off. —hin time hir, ,:r.:nd off on a
jaunt revirie, ilts jaws relEix, Mn
fIn;ers !dly t.i the Ifqi top. 7e rtowe.d his ale
then. !>V., the rznt!on of his 2° e, the 7mscles
or,,Illowln7; the skin to droop into -re y folds that
hun,; belo ce.ch obo7!cr,( like the flrA.bhy jowls of an aled
hound. :1't ,:idrit -resent a 2retty TAoture.
Then he ana3T,ed cwt of it and lnu. 5it aninst the
*hair with a nhort laugh, "1 was thinkin-?; 4.bwat the pod
old drya,0 he xplained.
°And after you -carried you settlo,! 4e., I
urody
He nodded and es, "I did for awhile. ut7 wanted to
learn all there vane to know about the hosiery mill 7vve*
so later on T moved rrom one job to anotAlr, from one nill
to another. It paid in the loan run, because about that
time the war broke out, and there was a scarcity of lilled
labor in the :eputh That's how T ha pewA to settle up
here. I mran there was a mill up here that wanted a
skilled hosiery mill man and came up to ”ply for the job,
don't member just how it came about that I
heard about the job, 1t's been so dazn loni a time. Veybe
a friend wrote me about it t'.ere were a lot of South
Carolina boys workin3 up bora then. Or maybe I reed it
in the newspaper. xnyway, left south Carolina and a7plied
for it. That :Alch remise And I remember the man who
interviewed me, He was nice enough. Alt he looked me over
and sa'd hold think it over, that he cyul-n't any for sure
whether 1 wT4s old enough for the job.
a superintendent and they couldn't be
see* they wanted
ilevinn that
wns too :roun for the job, I was only nineten. Tut
re.tAnted that crak About my i had a arotty good
opinion of rAyself o be sure. But, even so, know more
about the businsoo than a lot of older
out, they couldn't *Art an older M4u, so they hired ne.
They
4ave me a nip. proposition* too: 440 a w eke full charge or
the Aunt and a chance to leftrn masaTement. 'list last item
line to mean u lot. I ivid no way of tmow!n;7 it them but a
few montrAt Inter W3ft to tae ny own businena,
"rut to ,?:elit bcele: tc the,t job. T. do a :ood superintendent
because i h4d le:ed to take orders fnd carry them out,
no matter what 7 thouht about them myself one t' didn't
please :le, but I cept my swath shut. 7 rIur,d that was
the easiest way 1:-t ahead. And it want it don't pay
to cross the boss, because they fi,ure you're a trouble
'maker qnd they Iet dAln on you.
"'Ake that ti7le of the 1,bor trouble. o, not at out
plant. It himia/t c!ropped up there yet aut the minute the
bi bya t our shop heard abut what hapened at a nearby
acted
flee. unlap*" the boss told ne when ot there want
you to bev;in usodIng out the triul•-,le Ankers w iot workang
fool
here
of ll1 hnds you can trust,' nd be htntled e n slip of per.
t a damn
t It trot- the first. e hsd
'von re the semen a cou3le of stool plleone. and. 7 ens
:ured theyd Ie in the same boat unless they
ekly. o one day I was called into the front of
you need he1 t3, here's the n47700 of a couple
friend,
mita L11 be wild.
In Vlore days.
Alt
to sot up a Kind o.
PT
anyboy so much as
spoke in flvor of a union, or riibled -bout the wades, or
anythint like that, they mot slid out nice and easy like
but nevertheless out or good. If somebody out up about It,
.+41 have a little talk with him and point out that business
was bad and his department just bad to be cut down sone.
Usually it worked. If it didn't, then we didn't pull our
punches. I moan, then we .,,tve It to them atribt and let
'am make the best of it.
"Of course, I went ahead and did as I was told. BUt
that didn't mean that I liked the idea. It Iodised like a
rotten deal to the 1,orkers to me. 5t111 I wasn't simple
+Mouth to thin nytMn I Gould do would break the system
up. Hell nol flat as lon.'7 as I was only a superintendent,
at any rate. t
stuff wouldn't
management. And within 4 year I had that say&
"Yor la3a than a year later I had my own business. And
it all .,Trow out of the slump the slunp thIA came after
ton whole months of the b114.ast boo the business ever bad.
I myself had no idea the slump was so bad. In fact, I had
no idea there was a slump until 1 was called into the front
office. lben I ,;ot there, one of the mill owners was seated
at a desk si4ning SOVIO papers.
4'lzorniml,' he said whet i he saw me. 'You Dunlap:
did make up my mind that that sort of
re ,nd when IbAC nave to any about
rr1 void. 9
**Plenty., be mapped and be banded me a long list or
mimes. Mims people,11 have to be laid off*,
mrShatill I tell esiert, I asked*
*nell then business Is way offs, be said. 13ad. Underm
staled? Bad rottem* And leek hers, Duels,* You'll have
to take a eut yourself*,
*,And benumb?, I asked, Mewing 'set the ems that
so matter visit it me It wenn going to be all right*
*nes Sellars a weeks, be said*
11,7bat's too mmeb*"
**II% sorry
**se am 2 said,* Murat° sad I beaded baek th. Ilst*
fTi fire then* I vitt"
Dunlap paused, a look or satisfestion on his fees* M..
&Way be had enjoyed the distinstion of quitting lobes every.
one elm me being laid err. And I souldnft help smiliNt
at %hemmer of his narratives In shish be ably east the
other person in the lesser rase
uftile if you want, friend,' Dunlap observed, imeorreetly
interpreting what appeared on my fame "but by quitti
was mating the smartest neve MI made in nyubele
les see, I kmes the business from A to Z by that time* So
after I quit I get to thinking about opening a mall bowl*
nem at my oem0 And even though times sere kind of lead,
on. Ulm was is my favors the slump had mused a lot et
little busineAcos to fold U13 t1oblfft otsx30 pretty nice
empty bulldin2:a for sale ehsp.
w.?resently I fountl a frame buildiml that ras,jtt3t whet
wanted. ..t could be bought outr ght for $500., well
had 1.200 In the bank co I took that and th OM I borrowed
bought the building, Then I went out, and went to the
machinery boys mad _.!„ot them t3 install two machines on
eredit. L',0 far everything was going obey. But I had to
have raw material* and I had no acre money. I mean, they
weren't like th nthirery fellows. They wentc4 their .money
or the line* especlaIlv on small orders. 7 went home to
think* and thtn I did* and then I deciled d take a long
chance. 1'd bluff it out. I'd buy all they'd sell and
tie usual ninety days credit. Thot I Jtd, yind right
there I played -n luck or lust when I ,el -an to operate*
the slack audlenly ended and another boom came on. In
thirty dAys the orders beim to roll in so ft that I had
to in tall eithtnew ma Mlles.
made money big money. Bt not OR
fininhed oods lone. No* airl Remember ms telling you
about the way I hd loaded up with raw material. loll, I
else
had bought that stuff Ni,ben nobody/was uying, 1 7ot. It at
rock. -bottom rices, -41.1* when buaineav licked up, the
price of ram material jual‘ed to two, even threc tines as
=oh R4 It WS when ouvht. 1.sidea,had contracted
for a hell of 4 lot aore than I ayelt could even hope to
use up in a year. te thin do
on my r4COw I did It resold the stuf
n %s the nose
thin
ninety days I made a cool profit of t40,(AX on It alone.*
"And with that you bou4ht the house?* sc4, con..
olu4ti he had re,4ched the point in his story
replied almost crossly, *I didn't buy that
not just than. YIrst made more money."
must say, !le he told it he did.
:120-1 MO
1 His
$4C,CCO went into the buildin,I of a larl:or, more ro4srn
taut on the outatirts of town. Be moved Into it. He
doubled his crow of workers. e. himself plumed into an
eighteen hour day and with the yetr reckoned his profit*
t $1CC,000.
Then he bou.:ht the bcuse That, to his, wnn a matter
of presti,;e, for by MC he bd 0,)me to be re7arded in the
community as bein-7 sub9tantIalyr rich, and aocordingly„ he
thought it was ,bout tine to set up hio wife %nd children
n an est.allishment worthy of his reAlte. Riicht here in
this office at this very desk, he had made arram3ements
for its purchase. Rititt here he had handed the pen to
Jessie and looked on wh to she effix-d her signature be-
low his. And right .here, as he smiled at the nerwonnnese
of her pleasure, the Dunlap ship its sails -,-ently billowed
by prosperity, its passengers lulled by the serenity of the
'miters, seemed tc him to be a ely beaded into the port of
Contentment.
tut suldentlye And in thf, in it his votoe res.
fleetc the dramatic Laporte the squall struck* Late in
the ynar 1920e the bottom arIy fell out or Virile* Tn-
dustries„ including hie own r to llow in the heavy
seas, rice hit n new low* s saw his 7rofite out a
third, a half, then 1toether vist1sh. -here before he had
made buIe profits oL the rea1e of his Inventories now the
lowered prices of 11 oods„ finished or otherwise, &n re-
latIon to the hL;her prices he hAd pd d for r tf!rt15
in stook, threatened his extinction. Creditors grown,
weary of waitinq for cash tottlements of their accounts,
stepped In and took what they could ;et namely, finished
goods in lieu of cash. That is, soma did but not ell*
Others elamored for sash and he finally met their demands,
but not until he bad mortgaged everything in si;tht, inelud-
ing his home, to do so*
vith that he wits left pe and when his equity in
his 4,4C,000 house had been lived out, he moved to a Shabby
house nt the other end of tom, Then, ironically -Ifter he
bad been finally cleaned out es thorou-:hly ne lariantuan
vecuum swoepor but passed over him _ood times returned, in-
dustry revived, 2rioes maIn soared and in 172, the house
he so recently and reluctnntly vacated mold for t5C,000.
Fe lust hadn't held on 'owl' enoulh; but, Is a natter of
fat, he eJuldn't he reflected, and the years 1726, 1927,
nd 192, boos yearn for mo,' everyone elce,
na ourrent or debt tInd tery df,sspeir instead of in
any otresn of 7Ameral expansion and prosperity.
r the world did you :et along after that?*
he bell do you ose?* Dunlap's nanner was
_Irer but his voice sounded affable enough.
deep
I went to
wort Of course got nothsr“ but o'd jobs for awhile;
but a couple of years ago 1 rt.- crone t,.e job I've lot
now in a magnx.ne advertinement nTt iVC kept It ever
since..nee before thown, X thvbt I had caught on,
witb a ood line. In fa1 1 did wrtc at the job for about
ten months. "even put a down payncnt on n cheap little
secondhand oar toet around in. The job was nailing
hosiery wear. jut just when I w* wing i7,00d 1 lot a
letter telling me 7 was fired, Damned dirty triok, too.
ayin: business lots bad vhen it wasn't that at all. tknow
becat4se later on I met another salesman for the firm end he
told me. He said T was fired bensl it ens rtrored that
was -rinkSng on the job. :16'197 on the lob! 7hat's
spite of Jaws Dunlap's erouanp3 !sal of his own
troubl,!7n I couldn't help cm n ten he qddedl
",And me never touohln,,,
4
*well," be continued, I tired the e,tr brick to the
used c:r lot and that Watt that, Then I to40- this job. It
st ever 'rondotr one twek was
hoult it's t job, at with
so many people out of work nowadays t'in 7'm 'mmn Ineky
to have one.
°needless to say,
kids too, now thet t
eix of then
lucky to have the
Ae I told ou, there
Or tdnt I tell you" Aell, nyway, I've
got five 5irls n4 boy. Your are married Two, that's
a:dna and Ityra, the younl t onea, are still at home with
Jessie and mos and a ?;reat help they dr411 too. 74ns, she
works in a dress shop. Vyra, that's tht- aood looking one,
works In nu ice cream parlor. They each et eiqht dollars
a w ek. rive of that they bend in toward keeping up the
house. Three dollars each they keep for themselves. No
I don't know whet they do with it but they don't gad
around much. If that's vhtt you -mean. ince in awtile,
they'll tlike In a nov
t:ot often. 1:ost ni,ltgs they
eons hone fron work, eat per, lry th .lishes for their
mother ad settle down to lister( to the ro41o.
But thy on't scer:;. to '74ind. see the:, i!rew up
after *1"d lost my business no they etht used to fancy thins.
It a:int the same with them like 7t is with *Tessle. j 44MWMW
she takes It diff,rent f cvvree can understand vt47.
.eu see before I last 1y fortune, I altftys made pretty
doo4 money ar..1 she wts used to the best of everythinz. Now
for the vast sixteen years hwriag nothinl like we used to
it's been pretty hard on her.
"nefolost my t, SitMOSs she used to have her friends
over to the house for dinner or for brid:e oartl,os,
althoug, she didn't ore for niiht life or an 11,n, like
that, she VIIS ha;”y and contented but n/re, oho doesn't
entertain her friends 1.rimore because we I t h: vontt got
the mono:: to d/ to end ahe doesn't go out at all, WVOD
thouih r imam that ev•wy blur she ”ends in thnt shock is
hell for her.
au seo, we've only 7ot four lo VO5, -t MeV!.
hd to 'ell moat of ur else th!ns; nd Ye3010 Nis to do
her cookin: on a wood tome, so T woos dho's ?tnd of
ashawd to hATO her friends in.
As for ne nd the tcids, It's different. e Lave the
h,7: se in the morn nl„ directly after a bri kffAst of eoffee
d we're :one all dayUawilly I ot to run
over to one of the aills and try to t n orders nnd
then T tr02 tn here and ylte the out. Afterwards,
pick up one of the old ma,, sines re n the orfice and
if it's near su:12er time wait for the ;iris and walk
home with them.
That's the tay It Is etc
n bad ir.
e morning. No,
ounday,
we don't
e all
eh
t th.s juncture, James Dunlap ralsr4 to his full
nd langtildly stretched oat his .ms..
re bled sometinl appropriate fcY the partiw and