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James Kerby Ward

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shoes were on the floor beside me. He seemed quite embarrassed at having
to retrieve them and explained a little defensively, "I have to rest my
feet when I come to lunch." As he walked into his room his mother Whis-
pered, "He's so proud I know he felt terrible to be barefooted while you
were here."

Mr. Ward continued, "My two girls are at school. One goes to Lee
and is in the 11th grade. She wants to be a business girl and wants a
good course that teaches everything. She's smart and anxious to make
her own money. That's Geneva. And Pauline's in the ninth grade and
her health isn't so good. She's got some kind of gland trouble. She
ain't jest right, somehow, like girls ought to be that's her age. It's
the same kind of trouble that her mother had to have a operation about.
She says she wants to be a teacher and I am going to send her to college
if I have to mortgage the house to send her. It'll be worth it, I
reckon, if she still wants to go by the time she's ready. I always try
to give my family what they want.

"One thing I've got that I'm proud of, is good credit. That
Coldspot there is paid for, and the washing machine, and the radio, and
the piano, and the Chevrolet. I put a new foof on this house, too, since
I bought it weven years ago, and we built the two rooms and labor William
added the little den of his."

Mrs. Ward reminded her husband, "Daddy, you forgot that we had
these floors sanded and scraped, and that cost a lot. But we like them
like this so much better; makes things look a lot cleaner and I can just
throw a rug around here or wherever I want one and it makes the house

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