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4 "TRA VELIN' ON"
serves, "There was a man oncet named Darwin what
wrote a book what said that we're all come from the
same people as Jacko," which causes a general laugh.
Thus encouraged, Haskins goes on, "Seems to me,
Dan, you and Jacko seem to bear out what this book
said, because there sure is a resemblance."
The laugh that follows from the crowd causes McGee
to lose his temper and while he endeavors to cover it
up by laughing himself, there is bitterness underneath
it, and reaching over, he strikes at Jacko, as Jacko
sits perched upon the sho:ulder of Carmen Rosa, and
the little fellow squeals back at him in anger. This
causes him to strike again and he hits the little fellow
and says to Carmen Rosa, "I've told you before to
keep that thing away from me and out of my place.
Now that goes and I ain't tellin' you agin, understand!"
And Carmen Rosa, clutching her little pet to her,
shrinks away.

A11d then Dandy Allen McGee turns and he sees
seated upon the driver's seat and holding the reins
of the tired team the wife, mother of the child. Dandy
Allen McGee doesn't care anything about the child,
but he is stung by the beauty, simplicity and charm
of the mother. She is tired, she is hungry, but she
is watching her husband and following his every word
with belief and faith. Dandy Allen McGee moves
around the crowd and comes to the mother and talks
to her-yes, they have come a long distance; yes, they
are very tired, but they are content, they are working
for God. For the mother, while not active, is equally
as religious as her husband, but she is not a fanatic.
She would go about worshipping the Almighty quietly
and unostentatiously in her own way and in her own
self, if it were not for the fact that her husband is