My name is Henry Michael Thompson and I am ten years old. I live with my mom and my seven brothers and sisters in Clayton, Oklahoma. We really live outside of Clayton on our farm. I go to school in Clayton with my older brothers and sisters but the two babies stay home with mom. We all have class in the same building and have the same teacher. Dad doesn't live at home right now. He had to leave about a month ago to try and find some work so that we could keep the farm. He said there just wasn't any way he could make any money planting crops or raising cows anymore. My mom was crying when he told us he was going to have to go away for a while and then my sisters started crying too. My older brother Tom wanted to go with him but Dad told him h

used to drive into town every Saturday and go to the movies and have ice cream but we haven't done that for a long time.

Things have really been different since my Dad left. Mom never smiles anymore and she seems to be worried all the time. She says it has something to do with a thing called a depression. Mom explained to us that in the cities thousands of people were without jobs and because they didn't have jobs they couldn't afford to buy a lot of food. This meant that when Dad tried to sell his crops he didn't get very much money for it and then we didn't have the money to pay the bank the money that they had loaned us. She said it was better for us because we still had a roof over our heads and lots of people didn't even have a place to live anymore. I asked her how come people had lost their jobs and she said that lots of people had put all their money into something called the stock market and it had crashed. She said it wasn't broken like a smashed dish or anything but that it had lost all of the other people's money and now the people couldn't buy all the stuff they used to. Mo!

When Dad left to go find work he said he was going to try going to California. He had heard that there was work there on the big farms. Dad wrote to us when he got to California and said that when he got there he was too late to find work. Seems that lots of other farmers had gone to California looking for work and now there were too many people out there too. Dad's letter said he was thinking about joining something called the Public Works Administration tha

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