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lived on corn pone, corn likker, chawed tobacco. He had just run down to nothing.

The whole county was full of people like that and it was a great experience.

We got back and found that the Democratic speakin' was to be at 7:30. We had to make speeches, stand up on a platform before a big audience and make speeches. You can see what they kept us doing all day. You just couldn't be exhausted. After we got back from Patrick County there was an afternoon reception where the ladies had been invited in, specially. Mrs. Mead asked us to go change our dresses and put on our best clothes, because the ladies were coming. So we had to put our dressy dresses. We received the ladies who had all been invited. This wasn't a public reception. These ladies were the silliest things you ever saw. Some of my great funny stories about American life come from what they said. They were just gushy, gushy, gushy. Again the idea that I was Lizzie Langhorne, because my name was Perkins, was firmly established. My name was Perkins, so I must be Lizzie Langhorne Perkins. There weren't any others. I said, “I've got to give this up, Irene, I won't have any voice by night if I keep on.”

She said, “Oh, go on. What do you care? You might just as well be Lizzie as anybody else. It won't make any