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Alabama "Holly House" 2

banish. The tenant farmers are a "misfit" in Lowndes
County and are limited in number. This household has a
personnel of eight, including father, mother and six
girls. The oldest is sixteen—the age to be woman-ish
and think she "knows all the answers." Then there are
the "lap baby," an infant and three other little girls
between. The husband is the local garage man and is
also a tenant farmer. In addition his income is increased
by a world war pension received monthly. He is hard
working, respected and is known as a good provider. By
trade he is a mechanic but since moving to the community
a few years ago ,he has and made contacts with a large
local planter who has long since had a foothold in local
agricultural so they operate farms together. The tenant
farmer being familiar with machinery, is the tractor man.
By this partnership he is enabled to get his land free
and his crop carried on at a small cost and also to work
in the garage.

The wife is a small woman in the early forties and
on account of the many home duties and the excellent
care she takes of the six little girls, she is for it
indeed a near miracle how she turns out the amount of
work she does. Small and light in stature she does all
her work—cooking, sewing, washing, cleaning, with no
assistance. In addition she 'tends a good garden, and
takes care of a cow and chickens. Her little girls are
pretty, always neat and clean, wearing attractive little
dresses, and being always as well dressed and shod as the
children of a well-to-do planter. Their appearance is

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