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Florida
Enrique and Amanda
Folklore

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here so he won't have to pay no revenue. That's about the only way he is able to make nay money, cigars sell so cheap now.
"Diaz has gone over to St. Petersburg to sell some boxes of cigars to the tourist, without no stamps on them. Sometimes he gets low with money, so he makes up extra good cigars and sells them to tourist like that; he sells them dearer, but they is better cigars. By not paying revenue on them he makes money pretty good. But that's dangerous, all right; you know, he might walk up to an officer or something.
"Diaz use to be the biggest bootlegger in Yber City during the prohibition. He had sixty thousand dollars in the bank at one time, and now he ho have nothing. The police took it all in fines and bribes to geth im out of jail. Diaz use to be plenty tough. But he's getting more old and soft now; he says so long as he has to eat and a little money to spend he is going to enjoy himself while he is alive.
"In the factor I work in now, I make thirty cents an hour but it's not regular wokr all the time. The days what we are working we make about two dollars and thirty cents; that's not so bad as a lot of people makes. The smallest amount they pay in the factories now is a ten dollars a week and you have to work very fast on account of the wage-hour law making wages high. Unless you can work fast and good this company will fire you.
"There ain't no young people--very young--working in the factories. The Government won't allow it. A few years ago they foudn two boys working who were seventeen yeras old, and theym ade the boys quit the factory and go back to school. They wouldn't have been hired in the first place if they hadn't lied about their age. There is quite a few crackers working

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