You talk about hard times now--I have seen the time when a man was glad to get thirty-two cents for a bushel of wheat; when eggs could not be sold, when the only way to get 'York money' was to drive horses and cattle and sheep over the Alleghanies.
Sherman shares his memories of economic hardship during his early life, highlighting the struggles of farmers.
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