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younguns is goin to school. Did you notice all them clothes on the back
line, dryin? Well she put them out before she went to town this mornin."

There was a mixture of pride and sadness in his voice, but he went
on with his story.

"She keeps the house clean too, and wears herself out scrubbin floors.
I try to tell her not to do too much, but she won't listen.

"Of course the children all help, we are raisin them that way. But
when they're all gone off to school, there ain't much they can do. We
try to teach our younguns to be mindful of their home, and feel a respon-
sibility in it. And lots of times they take right a-holt of things and do
them without bein told. We ain't got much of a home now, or much furniture
in it, but we like to take care of what we got. I hope to fix up some
day, but there don't seem much of a chancet now. Would you like to see
what we got? As I told you before, it ain't much, but it's ourn and it's
clean."

He led me indoors. In the living room a center table with a linen
cover caught my attention at once, on top of this was a large Bible.
Other furnishings included several chairs, a cot, a trunk, and kerosene
lamps. The bedrooms had little more than a bed and one chair in each.
But the beds were clean, neatly made, and covered with hand embroidered
muslin spreads. High shelves draped with muslin served as clothes closets.
In the kitchen was a wood stove, some shelves for groceries and cooking
utensils, besides a table and three crudely made benches.

There weren't any modern plumbing facilities. A pump in the yard
supplies them with water, and a large galvanized tub, hanging to the side
of the house, serves for bathing and washing. I saw an old fashioned
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