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her room as she had a fire in there.

The fireplace had an old iron pot on the coals.

"Yes, I'm trying to save fuel by cookin' my dinnah on the fire," she explained. The room has two beds, covered with neat cotton counterpanes, a sewing machine and three chairs, one a rocker.

She has been sewing on quilts and she proudly displayed threethat she has recently pieced.

The girls' room has a bed, table, wardrobe, dresser and two rocking chairs. In the guest room is a neat bed-room suite, and a wardrobe, washstand, a rug and two chairs. John Wesley's room also serves as the pantry. Mary says that she keeps her canned fruit there; and she displayed the kitchen and dining-room, which are [common in appearance but scratched out] quite clean in appearance.

She said, "The girls warned me this morning that if they left without cleaning up the house, I would neglect it and company would surely come and now, sure enough, you're here."

Just then the door opened and her half-blind husband walked in. He appeared to be about seventy-five years old. He told me that he could see a little since he was operated on. He then proudly declared that he could work his own garden, and he then pointed out the window to prove it.

"I couldn't give satisfaction by hiring myself out to anyone else," he added, "but I can pick cotton a little. The bolls are so big and white that I can see many of them and feel the rest. So you see I can do a good day's work yet," he explained.

"Today, our new governor goes in office, I kept telling the old lady that I wish we had a radio so we could hear his inaugural address. Well, he has a load on his shoulders and I guess he is a lot like school teachers. We walk into the room the first morning with high hopes, but

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