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"Yes mam, up in Geneva County, I raised the finest corn and cotton
you ever seen. I done it fer nigh on to three year, and I made right good
money at it too. Then the dry weather come, and the bugs started in and
killed everything we planted. After about three years of them troubles we
got up and come back to Florida.

"At that time I still owned this place, it was jest raw land, but I
started right in to clearin a spot fer the house. I went in more debt to
get lumber to build jest this front room. Then we moved in, and I kept a-
clearin more land till I got that little patch there done, and ready to
plant. Then I started on that larger one over yonder back of them pines.
Anne, she kinder likes them big tall pines and the wind a-whistlin through
them, that's how come I left them."

Mr. Denman sighed deeply and a reminiscent look came into his blue
eyes.

"Then all of a sudden we tuk a notion to go back to Alabama agin,
and see ifen we couldn't stay there. You see, mam, its been our home all
our lives, and all our relatives were there; we jest felt like we wanted
to live there if we could. Anyway we wasn't sure jest what to do. All
my people have lived right in Geneva County a mighty long time, I reckon.
And I've heard my pa tell that his grandpa come over from England and come
to Georgia first, then right on to Alabama. My pa was named Albert, and
so was my grandpa.

"Well we didn't stay long that trip fer things was sure in a bad fix
up there; seemed like the farmers jest couldn't make a go of crops no
more. So we come back again, and we stayed. I think that was late in
1925, mam, but it mighta been in '26, I ain't real sure.

"I was this time I started to raisin corn and cabbage. The cabbages
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