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"Out here it's much cheaper to live too, no wood to buy, no electric
lights and not even no water. Jest think of havin to buy the water you
drink and wash in, it gets me. I got one fine deep well outside my kitchen
door, and I aim to build another room around it sometime for the kitchen.
And there it is, all the water a body could want, jest fer workin the pump
handle a little. I don't believe the Lord intended for people to buy water,
do you, mam?

"We get up so early in the mornin sometimes, that we have to light a
lamp until sun-up. But we have plenty to do when we get up so early, any-
way it seems like folks that gets up early feels better than those what
stays in bed. I always been use to gettin up like thet though, for when
I was a boy on the farm, we always got up long before daylight, my pa
wouldn't have it no other way."

He then discussed the political aspects of the country in general:
"Anne and me, both is good Democrats, like we was raised to be, and like
I'm raisin my younguns to be.

"Anne and me both vote, but Anne don't take much stock in it, she's
timid and don't like to go to the polls. I am a Democrat from the ground
up and mighty proud of it. It sure looks like the Democrat Party is the
only one for the country. Anyway it's the onliest one what ever looked on
for the poor folks. Nothin much was ever done fer the likes of me until
the present Administration. I sure do admire Mr. Roosevelt and I sure
hope he runs for a third team; this country needs him. And if other meddlin
folks will lot him be, without so much interferin, he will do a heap det-
terin that. Why, mam! he studied for years to be the President some day,
so when he got in, he knowed jest what was to be done, and how to do it.
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