16/12 i(0185 Ali Osman) -i(Ali Sariduman) - tarla ok {many fields}, no oda, not much of a house, alkan {industrious} - hamallk {porter} when not working
in the village - i.e. not at all badly off - sold kz {ox} to buy manda{water buffalo}.
k<wealth without display>
17/12 (cf. i(Mustafa ira) ?/11). i(0317 Haci Yildiz) gets much help from i(0086 Haydar) ,
- claims now to be in his pay for a fixed annual sum (? 200TL) - arrangement goes from harman to harman. Spoke highly of him. Spent 5 years with i(Hali
Tufan) - full keep + 150 - 200TL a year; 1 year with i(0039 Ahmet), 150TL - apparently didn't get on - bydm {I got bigger}.
Claims that i(Mehmet Sariduman) spent 15 years at Karadayi in service of this kind.
i(Osman Uludere) spent 5 or 6 years with i(0086 Haydar)
18/12 i(Nuri Belik)- worked away, well to do; his sons poor, ticaret {trade}.
19/12 i(0185 Ali Osman)'s grandfather rich -; sent money to his brother asker {soldier}, built 4 houses for his sons, and went blind in his old age, - so
poverty. Died at 95, 23 years ago.
k<db>
18/12 i(Haci Ali Ates) - 1 svac {plasterer}, 2 ploughboys, so he is free himself for ticaret - hence rahat {comfort}.
k<labour contracts, irak, village, i(0185Ali Osman)'s FF, plasterer >
{c: standard system for recruitng labour by rich peasnats,irak. This had receently been common, even within the village. Why had it stopped?}
k<rich and poor>
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