Even though he and Mother worked from sunup to nightfall picking cotton in the delta country of Arkansas, they were so poor they used to tie brown paper bags on the heads of us children to protect us from the sun.

• 他和母亲在阿肯色州的三角州地区种植棉花。 尽管披星戴月，早起晚眠，他们还是一贫如洗。 他们往往只能用牛皮纸袋子系在我们这些孩子头上遮阳。