[Illustration: Cissy and Tommy at the Center]
CONTENTS
Foreword
1: The House Of Beecham
2: The Cranberry Bog
3: Shucking Oysters
4: Peekaneeka?
5: Cissy From The Onion Marshes
6: At The Edge Of A Mexican Village
7: The Boy Who Didn't Know God
8: The Hopyards
9: Seth Thomas Strikes Twelve
FOREWORD
Dear Mary and Bonnie and Jack and the rest of my readers:
Maybe you've heard about the migrants lately, or have seen
pictures of them in the magazines. But have you thought that many
of them are families much like yours and mine, traveling
uncomfortably in rattly old jalopies while they go from one crop
to another, and living crowded in rickety shacks when they stop
for work?
There have always been wandering farm laborers because so many
crops need but a few workers part of the year and a great many at
harvest. A two-thousand-acre peach orchard needs only thirty
workers most of the year, and one thousand seven hundred at
picking time. Lately, though, there have been more migrants than
ever. One reason is that while in the past we used to eat fresh
peas, beans, strawberries, and the like only in summer, now we
want fresh fruits and vegetables all year round. To supply our
wants, great quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables must be
raised in the warm climates where they will grow.
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