Part 8 (1/2)

Then, after a busy day in the field, other work remained to be done

The cotton pickers sat upon the ground in a circle

From the midst of the cotton they took the black seeds

These seeds were very troublesome

They are covered with hairs

They cling fast to the cotton

These naughty children of the plant love their mother

So fast do they cling to her, that a person could clean but one pound of cotton in a whole day

So you may understand why so little was raised

In 1784, eight bags of cotton were taken froland

These were seized by the custom officers

These officers are those who look after goods sent in or out of a country

If oods, it is called a duty

The custom officers must see that the duty is paid

These men said that this cotton could not have come from America

During the next two years less than one hundred-twenty bags were sent there from our country

The treaty of peace with England was made in 1794

None of the treaty-makers then knew that any cotton was raised in America

Would you like to knohy, fifty years later, a million bales were sent from America?

This is the story:

In the ith England, Aenerals

One of these was General Nathaniel Greene

He had helped to win victories in the South

The State of Georgia gave him a tract of land

General Greene lived with his family upon this land