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	10	ah	for	I
	2.	bawn	for	born
	3.	capper	for	caper
	4.	corn‘	for	come
	5.	do	for	dough
	6.	ebry, ev‘ry	for	every
	7.	hawd	for	hard
	8.	niuh	for	my
	9.	nakid~	for	naked
	10.	ole, ol‘	for	old
	11.	ret, raght	for	right
	12.	snaik	for	snake
	13.	sowd	for	sword
	14.	sto‘	for	store
	15.	teh	for	tell
	16.	twon‘t	for	twan‘t
	17.	useter, useta	for	used to
	is.	uv	for	of
	19.	waggin	for	wagon
	20.	whi‘	for	white
	21.	wuz	for	was

	I should like to i~comrnend that the stories be told in the lan~~uage of the ex~-slave, wittout excessive editorializing and ‘artistic“ introductions on the part of t~aeinterviewer. The con~ trast between the directness of the ex~s1ave speech and the roundabout and at tir~ies po~pous comments of the interviewer is freçjuently glaring. Care should be taken lest expressions such as the foLlowing creep in: “inflicting wounds from which he never fully recovered“ ( sup7osed to be spoken by an ex—slave).

	Flnalij, I should i1k~ to i‘ecŚunend that the words thirky and nigger and such ex~rsssi3ns as “a comical little old black woman“ be ou~itted from the editorial ~~riting, ~here the ex-~slave him— self uses these, they should he i~tained.


This~aterial sent ~Tune 20 to stat3s of:	~la., Ark., Fla.,Ga., Ky. ‚ La. ‚ 1~d. ‚ ~:iss. ‚ ~.o. ‚ ~. C. ‚ Ohio, Okla. ‚ Term. ‚ Texas, Va. ‚ and S. Car.