And my daddy could cut more wood—I think they call it—. I don't what they
call it, but anyway, they laid it this way and all. And he could put up
I don't know how many a day just [open airage].
He was a smart man. He was a smart man and was a good worker. Everybody
say he was one of the best farmers that they'd ever seen. And Nick's
daddy was a big farmer, too, but he didn't use no sense with his. He'd
take up forty acres—Daddy said he remembered once they had forty acres
of tobacco. Now, you know, that's a—and said they had to pull tobacco on
a Sunday. And Nick said his mama said, "If this happens again, it was
going to stay in the field and rot." They had to to save it.
And, see, he was just trying to get—just hoggish after things. Just
wasn't thinking about how much work it was going to take to do what they
were doing. He just did it so he could—so people would say, "Lord, you
know, Old Man Nick Parker planted forty acres of tobacco." Had forty
acres of tobacco and I think Daddy said thirty acres of corn. I don't
see—but he had a lot of boys and grandchildren and all. But they made
it. They made it.
I'm sure—I'm glad I didn't come on at that time [when it was] hard work
like that. I didn't ever do nothing over there. I—[UNCLEAR] used to say, "She doesn't feel well this morning. Don't let her go
out there and hand leaves." I 'd make out like my stomach hurts me this
morning, but [it ain't nothing in the world]. And then I'd go get in the
bed and sleep all day [laughter] . [UNCLEAR] said, "Oh, shut up. You know you ain't never
wanted to do nothing."