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{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Unique.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Hmm.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What's different, what's the difference in shucking clams and the other jobs you've had?

[00:12:22]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How has it differed? The management style, or, are you more independent when you shuck clams, or—?

[00:12:32]
{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Hm— Well, independence, I guess.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay! [[both laugh]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How has, uh, working at the clam house benefit you and your family?

[00:12:44]
{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
How is it—?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How has it benefit you and your family?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Oh, it benefit me! [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
In what ways?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
In my bills! [[laughter]] In my bills.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
In your bills? Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, when people ask you what do you do for a living, what do you tell them? How do you describe your job?

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{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
I just tell them, I just shuck clams and then, uh, and do house work.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
House work.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
House cleaning, yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Are you proud of your job?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Yes, I is, but sometime it's— I get tired.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Get tired.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
But I, I like it.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Can you, I mean, you say you're tired. When you, can you sit, stand, or what, while you're shucking clams?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Oh, I sit.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Sit.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What's your hours?

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{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Um, from the time I get down there till about quarter to 9. Say around about -- oh, we work, start at 7 o'clock, we're in there—

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
—until a quarter 9, so I ain't got no time down in there.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
So you just shuck for two hours?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Uh-huh.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Has that--Why has your hours changed?

[00:13:58]
{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Because, uh, during the wintertime, it was too cold for the girls, and he said he gon' change, you know, starts at 7.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
After it get hot, warm, and then he goin' [[ ? ]], you know, start back at 5.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Is there a difference in the oysters now than when you first started?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Don't you mean the clams?

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Clams, I'm sorry, yes. [[cross talk]] The sizes, th—

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Oh, yes! Oh, yes! It's different! [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How is it, how is it different?

[00:14:30]
{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Small! They're small.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
They're small?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Mm-hmm.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who are some of the other people that's at the, uh, clam house besides yourself?

[00:14:39]
{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Oh, what? Other people?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who are some of the other people, yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Who is some of the other people?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh-huh.

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{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Besides myself?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yeah.

[00:14:48]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Who are some that you usually talk to?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Uh, Mabel, and James, and—

[00:14:57]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mabel?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Cluck.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
James Cluck. [[ ? ]] [[ ? ]] What the hell, whatever. [[laughs]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. That's [[Biloxi ?]] ones, right?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Uh—

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
No.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
Uhhh. Nope.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh, Okay — Uhhh, Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is there any more oyster house, or clam house in the area besides Denton?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Washington"}
I don't know!