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.
Ta oli varahommikuti ärganud ja käinud oma väikeste lastega puuvillapõllul umbrohtu kõplamas, et teenida mulle New Yorki sõidu raha!