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	“My brother was big enough to mind gaps. That waa in alavéry tise., They had good fences around the field. ~ ai~‘ t have gates like they do

now. They had gaps. The fence would zigzag, and the rails could be lift.d

down at one section, and that would leave a gap. It you iett a gap, the

stock would go Into the field. When there was a gap, my brother would tay

.	in it and keep the stock . tram paaeing. Ihen the tolka would come to dinner, he would go in and eat dinner with them just as big as anybody. When they would leave, the gap would stay down till night. It atayed dawn from morning till noon and trom one o‘clock till the men came in at ni~t. The gap was a place in the rails like I told you where they could take dom. the rails to pass. It took time to lay the rails down and mors time to plac. thm baCk up again. They wouldn‘t do it. They would leave them down till they cc~ back during the work houra and a boy that was too email to do anything ela• was put to mind them, My brother used to do that and I would keep him company. ~en I heard old master coming there, I‘d b gone, yea aire.. I would see him when he left the house and when he got to the gap, I w~.ld bs home or at niy grandfather‘ s.


Occupational Experiencea

	nI have followed tarming all my life. That is the sweetest lite a man can lead. I have been farming ail my life principally. My occupation is farming. That Is it was until I lost my health. I ain‘t done nothin‘ tor about Thur years now. I would follow piblic work in the tall of the yar and make a crop every year. Never failed till I €Ot di8~bled. I used to niake all I used and all I needed to feed my stock, fi even raisd ~ own wheat betore I left home in Alabama. That is a wheat country. They don‘t raise it out here~J
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