Show why southerners have cowl good voice life in the country especially in our southern country where people lived far apart landwere and were employed oftentimes at a considerable distance from one ono another and from the houses or homes in which they ate and slept tended by exercise in communicating with one ono another to strengthen and improve the voices for high and prolonged notes A wider range to the vocal sounds was constantly afforded and frequently required hallooing hallowing Hallo screaming yelling for one person or another to their do doge gs or at borne u of their cattle on the plantation with the accompanying reverberations from hilltops over valleys and plains were familiar sounds throughout the fanning farming districts of the south in the days gone by it used to be said of my fathers old negro foreman that he lie could be distinctly understood a mile or more away hunting which was enjoyed and indulged in ili more or less by nearly every citizen of the south was alao also conducive to this characteristic development dr J I 1 harvie dew in century I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 k lt 1 7 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |