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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, January 31, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 19

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Dressed now in the scanty, color
less clothing of a "poor -white" of
the pine woods, limbs and body tan
ned with walnut, her slender feet rub
bed in dust and then thrust stocking
less into shapeless shoes, she let
down the dark, lustrous mass of her
hair, braided it, tied it with faded
ribbon, rubbed her hands in wood-
mold and crushed green leaves over
them until they seemed all stained
and marred with toil. Then she gath
ered an armful of splinter-wood.
Head bent, she moved on in the
shiftless, hopeless fashion of the sort
of humanity she was representing,
furtively taking her bearings and
making such sidelong observations
Ami as she sat studying her map, she oocano aware of a faint tremoV in the
. , solid earth under her horse's feet;

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