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time -- last time they give me five cans. I fixed some of it nice in
glasses with ice and sugar for the kids, hut they don't like it and won't
drink it. They like the fruit, hut they won't drink the juice.

"Food is pretty cheap in Ybor City -- I get milk for 10¢ a quart -- but
even so, lots of people do not have enough money to buy to eat. I have
seen people go to the meat market and ask for free scraps for dogs, and
then cook the scraps and make soup to drink.

"Enrique used to have a little 'buckeye' cigar factory of his own.
He had 12 men working for him at one time, hut you know he didn't have
enough capital to keep going. He had to buy all his material for cash
and sell for credit, so he needed more capital than he had. He is a
good business man and was doing good with it for awhile.

"My one ambition is for my kids to finish school and maybe even go to
college. That's the main reason I wish Enrique could get started with
his own buckeye again -- so maybe he could make enough money to send the boys
to college. If I had the means I sure would help him get started in his
own factory again.

"He did try to borrow money but the banks wouldn't lend him any be-
cause he didn't have enough security, and he didn't know nobody else who
could lend him any. He wants so hard to start a buckeye of his own
again; that's all he's living for, the day he can start again. Look: he
picked out this label from a catalogue. He's saving all these labels in
case he starts up again. I think it was the prettiest one; nobody can
use this label but him because he bought the rights to it. It looks like
he will never be able to get started again, but while there is life there
is hope, they say."

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