The cracker's wants are simple...his garden plot, pigpen, chicken coop, and the surrounding woods and near-by streams supply him and his family with nearly all the living necessities. Fish is an important item of diet, and when the cracker is satiated with it he has been heard to say: 'I done et so free o' fish, my stommick rises and falls with the tide.'
Any small income from his place is spent at the general store, and Saturday is the day to go to town and stock up with 'bought vittles'. His one luxury is tobacco. Snuff-dipping is still prevalent among the older womenfolk, though they scorn cigarettes as immoral.
from the 1939 Florida, American Guide Series.
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