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sallow complexions, and the younger folks didn't have any color in
their cheeks either. The mills of those days didn't have any way
of controlling the dust and lint, and the air we breathed was dry
and stale. Now they have humidifiers that keep the air moist. And
another thing; in those days sanitary conditions were mighty bad
sometimes. That was because so many lived crowded together in the
same house, breathing the same air that came from the lungs of the
sick ones. Now they have sanitary inspectors to go around ever so
often and inspect the premises as well as the houses.

"Oh, no! It wasn't all work in those days. We boys used to go
to ball games, and we played football and baseball too. I used to
follow the Georgy boys and their big games, but now I can't go and so
I have to sit at home and listen to their games over the radio. My
first trip to Floridy was to see Georgy play Floridy at Gainesville.
That was the best trip I ever had in my life and it was the first
time I ever saw the Atlantic Ocean. I'm just as big a fool over a
football game now as I was at twenty. My father liked 'em too.

"No, ma'am, I've never been very religious. However, I did
join the Methodist church with my mother. Father didn't belong to no
church. When he was sick the preacher come and sat with him a long
time, and once he said to father, 'Henry, do you realize you will
never be well again? Don't you think it is time you were serving the
Lord?'

"'I've been serving the Lord all my life,' answered father.
'I went to Sunday School at old St. Mary's Church 'til I was a grown

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