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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
So, actually I know you don't know their rent, how much they paid for rent, but, they rent a house from him?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Uh, I think the house was owned by someone else. He rent 'em [[inaudible]]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
no, not this part. Yeah, I sort of wondered about that. I know there's one house by the parsonage.
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yeah, and he take, I guess, 10-12 and put them in that house for rent.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
I know there's a lot because, we had

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Absolutely, there was a lot. He made a lot of money because [[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
He lives at Burtonsville Road.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yeah, right down below the store. Right down below the store, at Ma & Pop's

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
That yellow house is his?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yeah. And he has a trailer up there that he rents to them too. I think the rent that he charges them must be the gas and retainer back and forth to work. He takes them people and puts them in the house, even at $30, that's $300 week. But they work.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
So they leave from the oyster house and go straight to the crab house

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yeah, yeah, it's right there. All right in the same building.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How did you deal with the... When I went there, the floors were so wet and... Did that affect you all healthwise?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Hmmm. Well, there are a few [[padmen?]] that got arthritis.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yeah, that's [[?]] I'll say it
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
There's a lot of people that had never done it that are worse off then we are. My sister-in-law over there, she is 80..., she was born in 1916, she is 81, 82? 1916 .. she's 81, I guess.
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And she doesn't have no arthritis, she been oyster shucking for years. So, it's not the Oyster House, it's the individuals health, you know that
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