31.   Sharecroppers picked cotton from dawn to dusk, six or seven days a week, for little or no pay.

32.   She could pick cotton as fast as any man.

33.   She had been reared in a simple, disciplined way, too, and remembers picking cotton as a child.

34.   She warmed up her subjects, sympathizing with the low pay they got for picking cotton.

35.   The old man turned away from the fresh vegetables he was considering buying and extended hands browned and thickened by years of picking cotton.

36.   The son of a Hispanic sharecropper with strong family values and firm roots in the Roman Catholic Church, he spent much of his childhood hunched over picking cotton.

37.   They picked cotton.

38.   Would we really be better off picking cotton and cutting wheat by hand?

39.   Perkins grew up picking cotton in Lake County, Tennessee, where he listened closely to music sung by blacks as they worked in the fields together.

40.   Bonofasio Olguin, a farm laborer who also works for Mefford, was out in the field picking cotton when he found out.