22. Do you remember the way they made shoes by hand in the country?

Yes, all our shoes were made on the plantation.

23. Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers

always for your featherbeds?

Yes.

24. Do you remember when women wore hoops in their skirts, and when they

stopped wearing them and wore narrow skirts?

Yes. The doctor's folks were so stylish that they would not let the

servants wear hoops, but we could get the old ones that they threw away

and have a big time playing with them and we would go around with them

on when they were gone and couldn't see us.

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