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"Of course I don't know whether I can get them all well educated or
not, they ain't much tellin until its all done, but I'm aimin to try. If
I was makin the money now what I useter make in Alabama when I first start-
ed workin for myself, everything would be all right. But these times is
different, and when I do make somethin I have to spend it right away for
things we need.

"We like it better here in Florida now that we've been here so long.
The weather is better and things are a mite cheaper. We also don't have
to use so much wood in winter. We don't never even buy no fuel, all we
have to do is take the truck and go pick up all we want. And of course
the place is all paid for, so that's a heap ofen my shoulders."

With the future of his children still in mind, he added: "Anne and me
both, always tries to see that the younguns have the right food and clothes.
I don't mean fine vittals, nor fine clothes, but the right kind and ones
what's always clean. We have both studied diets, so as to give our children
the best as we know how. They like milk even when it's the canned kind,
and they like vegetables too, that is, all but carrots. They eat corn,
butter-beans, string beans, and okra. Now they shore do like okra, and
it's good fer them too. I never did care much for vegetables myself, but
since the kids come along I've larn to eat a lot of things I never like be-
fore. Sometime I have to take part pay fer my work in vegetables aroun
here, so then we had to eat them.

"No, mam, when I was gettin started here, I didn't sell no groceries
much for tradin, unless it was fruit. Some of the folks out on the creeks
aroun here, raise good bananas though and when they'd bring them in I'd
trade fer them occasionally. But I couldn't do it much and stay in the
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