You have to remember how hard times were back in those days (circa 1903). Life was tough.

In my wandering days I worked for a man in North Carolina who had an orchard. He told me how when he was 9 years old, his mother would put his lunch in a bucket and he would take it to the coal mine to work a 10 hour shift.

Ten hours down in a black hole mining coal at the age of 9. Kids today think they are deprived if they don't have the right kind of tennis shoes.

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