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1  One dollar and ten cents is the cash price in town.
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2  Josie helped them to sell the old farm, and they moved nearer town.
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3  It is the cheerfulest schoolhouse I have seen in Dougherty, save in town.
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4  We were riding along the highroad to town at the close of a long hot day.
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5  Five miles below here is a town owned and controlled by one white New Englander.
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6  Six days in the week the town looks decidedly too small for itself, and takes frequent and prolonged naps.
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7  The dull monotony of daily toil is broken only by the gayety of the thoughtless and the Saturday trip to town.
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8  Four and six bobtailed thoroughbreds rolled their coaches to town; open hospitality and gay entertainment were the rule.
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9  For these there is one other avenue of escape toward which they have turned in increasing numbers, namely, migration to town.
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10  A rod farther on we noted another ear on the ground; and between that creeping mule and town we counted twenty-six ears of corn.
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11  But a change is coming, and slowly but surely even here the agricultural laborers are drifting to town and leaving the broad acres behind.
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12  Back toward town we glided, past the straight and thread-like pines, past a dark tree-dotted pond where the air was heavy with a dead sweet perfume.
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13  I had crossed the stream at Watertown, and rested under the great willows; then I had gone to the little cabin in the lot where Josie was resting on her way to town.
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14  His store, which used most frequently to stand at the cross-roads and become the centre of a weekly village, has now moved to town; and thither the Negro tenant follows him.
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15  If he is ambitious, he moves to town or tries other labor; as a tenant-farmer his outlook is almost hopeless, and following it as a makeshift, he takes the house that is given him without protest.
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16  But on Saturday suddenly the whole county disgorges itself upon the place, and a perfect flood of black peasantry pours through the streets, fills the stores, blocks the sidewalks, chokes the thoroughfares, and takes full possession of the town.
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17  The system of labor and the size of the houses both tend to the breaking up of family groups: the grown children go away as contract hands or migrate to town, the sister goes into service; and so one finds many families with hosts of babies, and many newly married couples, but comparatively few families with half-grown and grown sons and daughters.
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