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them is so bad it ain't hardly worth the trouble to tote them to town.
Besides we can always eat them. Sometimes I think I'll jest give up
farmin all together, it's so aggravatin; and jest let the land go back to
woods and trees. But I do love the work, and when I gets to thinkin of
all the time I spent in clearin and cleanin, I jest can't let go. Seems
like there's somethin about bein a farmer oncet you get into it.

"We all likes the store too, but it would be a heap better ifen there
was more business and we could stay busy all the time. The childrens can
keep store as good as Anne and me, and they knows how to weigh out grits
and the like, and make change. Most folks never thought I could make a
livin with this here little store way out here on the highway, but I shore
have, even when it was so far from town.

"I got that there little old truck too, and I can use it sometimes
when I get work, especially ifen it's county work. We've done right well
in spite of all what folks said I couldn't do. Anyway we ain't starved,
and that's somethin big."

Mr. Denman then spoke of life in town: "I wouldn't want to live in
town, but I do like to go in sometimes and watch to see what the rest of
the folks are doin. But I ain't never seen none what looked happier than
we are. They always seems to be in sech a hurry.

"I think out here's a better place to raise younguns too, they got
plenty to do an no time to get into mischief. In town they want to stay
on the streets all the time. I've seen little bitty younguns in town roamin
around all by themselves. 'Pears like they'd be skeered, but they ain't,
and they jest go walkin right down the streets. I can't keep from wonderin
what their parents is like when I sees it.
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