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Poor White (Paperback)
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Poor White (Paperback)
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Loot Price R512
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Hugh McVey was born in a little hole
of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the
Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable
place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of
black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the
town - called in derision by river men "Mudcat Landing" - was
almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow,
shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long
gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on
which they lived. They were chronically dis-couraged, and the
merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The
merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle
affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods
they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the
shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the
work they did. Only the town's two saloons prospered. The saloon
keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and
the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was
unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting
drunk.
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