Yes, sir; but board is cheap, merely nominal.
Q.About what amount?
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I should say these teachers can get board for $10 a month.
Q.Is the cost of clothing in your part of the country about the same as here?
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This is our market.
Q.You buy the ready-made clothing largely for the population in general, I suppose?
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We buy both ready-made clothing and cloth to make up.
Q.I suppose the colored population hardly buy custom goods?
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A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere.
They buy the cloth and make it up themselves.
Q.That must bring a suit of clothes pretty cheap in a colored family; they really expend nothing but buy the cloth themselves?
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