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this group apilt rails, did ~ie1d work, spinning, tailoring and any of the many things that had to be done . ~aoh person might chooae the type of work
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he liloed beet. ~ Opportuiiltles to mai~ cash money ~re plentiful. ~y made basket8 and did hand work which was sold and the money given the maker.

A man or woman who paid GOT. Towns ~15O. 00 might hire him3e1~ to the Goy. for

a year. When thia was done he waa paid caah for aB. the work he did and ma~ ‘are able to clear aeTeral hundred dollars in a year. In addition to thia opportunity tor earning money, every adult had exi acre of ground iliich he might cultivate as he choae. Any money made from the sale of this produce waB hia own.


1~creation was not conaidered bnportant ~d so no provision was made in. the regular routine. It was, bo~ver, poaaible to obtain ‘time off“ at frequent interval8 and theas might be tex~ned irregular vacation periode. !‘vsning enter-‘ tainment at which aquare dancing was the main attraction, ~re conmion. t~uiU music, from a hon~made harmonica, was played ~en banjoes were not available. Theas instrumenta iore made by binding with cane five to ten reeds of graduated lengths. A hole was cut in the upper end of each and the mueic obtained by blowing up and down the acale • Guesta came froen all neighboring ternie and engaged in the ~Green Corn“ dance which was similar to what is now called Buck dancing. Near the end of auch a hilarous evening ‚ the gue ate were aerved with persimmon be.~r and ginger cake 3) ~ then considered e delicac.~

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“Goy.“ Towns waa intere ated. in assi sting any one 1etIOÙØ-~« learn4~. The

little girls who expressed t~ae desire to become ~ladiea~ ~re kept in the

“big house „ end very carefully trame d. The taste a of the ae few were developed to the extent that they excelled the ordinary Rq,uarter~ children end ~re the envy of the group at social affaira.