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By STELLA RICHARDS
Rappahannock New# Staff writer
Martha Weakley is hoping one of her sons will bring her a deer first thing this season. She still has some vension in her -freezer from last year, but not very much. She’s been saving it for special occasions.
“I always like to save it — it’s hard to get,” says Mrs. Weakley, who has lived in Jenkins Hollow all her life. Last year her sons brought her one and a half deer.
Mrs. Weakley’s children are still helping her, just as they have since they were old enough to go to school. She recalls the days when one child would be assigned to bring in Water from the spring to the house and another to bring water for the washing.
Another child (she and her late husband had six) would get in the firewood, while another would gather kindling.
Her only daughter was delegated to the housework and would have supper ready for the whole family by the time her parents came home from work.
Mrs. Weakley remembers when she and her husband got 10 to 15 cents per bushel for picking apples “and thought we really made the
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