"I'll say they was hard! Nobody but us nesters knows what hard times is.

Out west of here they went three years without rain, and all around here people was starvin'.

Grown folks was thin and tired, and children was sickly--they was too peaked to play.

Why, we took in a hull family--wagon-folks.

Their hosses died and they couldn't go on, so we kep' 'em--'til _we_ burned out.