She and several of her young children had been getting up very early in the morning to go out in the fields and chop cotton ​ — removing the weeds growing between the rows — ​ in order to earn enough money so that I could take the trip to New York.
Viņa kopā ar dažiem saviem bērniem agri no rītiem bija devusies ravēt nezāles kokvilnas laukā, lai nopelnītu naudu manam braucienam uz Ņujorku.