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Florida
Enrique and Amanda
Folklore

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to the store," Enrique seems to be about forty years old; he has a rather handsome face, and appears to be quite active and virile.
"I don't spoil my children," continues Amanda. "When I go to visit somebody my children come along and sit down and behave themselves and don't run around hollering. They don't always ask for bread when I go visiting, either, like a lot of kids do.
"Jose eats candy all day. It's bad for his teeth and I ought not to give it to him but he cries if I don't. He'll take all the pennies you will give him, but he won't take no nickels or dimes or nothing like that. I guess maybe he never spent nothing but pennies in his whole life; he must think pennies is the only thing you can buy stuff with.
"He sure hates to take a bath. Sometimes when he knows he's going to have to have to take a bath he gets on the toilet and sits there for hours, just to keep from having ot take a bath. You try to take him off the toilet and he hollers and hollers. The only way you can make him take a bathi s toget a belt and make out like you are going to whip him."
"My kids know when I take off my belt I mean business," says Enrique, speaking for the first time. "They know I treat them good and buy them things and don't buy myself nothing. I buy my wife a dress and the kids two dollar suits for Christmas and me no buy nothing."
"Jose sure is stubborn," Amanda goes on, "And what a temper he's got! When he wants osmething and can't make you understand what it is, he sure makes a fuss. I want to send him to school as soon as I can. He has a good head on him. He can learn to write and will get along fine, I think. He goes to shows and likes them very much. You should see the motions he

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