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Wow you been picking cotton all your life?
Yes sir, all my life.
What's the most pounds have you picked in a day?
500 pounds.
By yourself?
Yes sir.
How much did you get per pound? What did they pay per pound for that?
Well it was cheap then.
How much?
I ain't remember now but it ain't more than nothing.
Fifty cents a day? A dollar a day?
Well, it was something like that, I reckon.
Uh, you ever pick cotton by task? You know what task work is?
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No. I've never picked nothing by no task.
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You pick by row?
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No, I just pick by the hundreds. It pays for so much a hundred you pick.
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Ever put a rock in your bag?
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No sir, don't put no rock there, and ____ either.
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Never?
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Never!
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Okay, thank you.
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Always enjoy that smile.
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What do you do when you pick it? You separate that?
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Yea, you see here? You see this here what it goes in you see? it be a bowl. And then that bowl get right there and then it go to opening and then you pulls it out like that.
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Now you get special, don't you get a little more money for picking that way? I mean than if you just pick the bowl with it?
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Well, if you just pick the bowl with it, you would get more that way but they don't figure it here like that. In the city now they tell you to bring everything except that stalk. That's the city though. See they got gins down there in the city. Up here they ain't got no gins. Not to clean this stuff.
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No, I, I don't work none.
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And my knees bother me. And my back. That arthritis rheumatism and I don't work none.
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How old are you?
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Oh, let me see. I'm round about 75 or 80 years old almost. I been retired.
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Now ask him. Ask him what the most amount of money he's ever made in a year is?
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Do you remember the most amount of money you ever made in a year picking cotton?
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No, I never did keep up with that. It was such a little bit til I just get it and go ahead on.
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Don't save it?
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You had to buy stuff with it! Just like stuff high now. You can't hardly make it now.
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Course I gets a little ol' check and it don't hardly take care of my expenses. Time I buy my food and pay my house rent, insurance, light bill, and buy my food, and buy my clothes, it don't leave no two or three dollars!
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Do you live by yourself?
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No, that's my wife down there.
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How about your children? Where are they?
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Oh, my children they off. They ain't here.
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Where'd they go?
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They up north somewhere.
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In the cities?
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Yea, in the city somewhere.
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Can we watch you pick a little bit?
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Huh?Yes ma'am!
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Can we watch you pick a little bit?
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