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Alabama ~‚	10234	Susie R. O‘Brien,
.	: Uniontown, Aiaoama.
w.	s. Jordan~ Editor.


OLD JOE CAN KEEP

HIS TWO bITS.


ANTHONY BI~, EX-~SLAVE.


	Uncle Ant‘nv sat dozinE~ in the early morning sunshine on his f:~. c~ety front i~orch. He is a thin little old man with patches of white ~ool :~T.ere and tiere on his bald head, and an. er:)ression of hIndness and ~e:~tleness on :is wrin‘:led old face.

	As J~ went cautiously up the steps, which aire~red none too ~ i1i~S cane ~hich had been leanin~ a~air~st his c~±air, fell to the ~Thor ~~ith a clatter. He av~ohe with a start and be~an fUflhhl±% arqünd :~or it With his trembling: and bony hands.

	“Uncle Ant~ny, yOU don‘t see so well, do yo~?~I I ashed as I re~

cDvered the stick for him. “No ma‘am, I sho‘ don‘t,“ he replied. “I

rii~~‘t seed none outen one of my eyes in near ‘bout sixty years, and de

‘~ctor say I ~ot E~ cata1~c on de~uther one; but I hnows you is whIte

~	‚..~ hs. I always is been PUn:T, but ~ reckon 1 does nurty well considerin‘

L~ ~ a hundred years old.“

	“H~~ do you know you are ti:at old? „ I in~red of hin. Without

~	~itation 1~e answered, 1~ ~ hnows Is dat old ‚ c~e rw mistis put it down

i.•, de Bible. I w~s born on de fourth day and I w~.s a full growed. ~ian

.	en de vr~r~ue on in ‘CI.

	II~:rassu::;, :~y ~~nd hinder comes and r~oes, but I can always ‘member I~ )T)~ slave‘ :r time . lits de t~in~s what ha7ren in ciese da~rs tht ‚ s so

~	7.~r for : C tO diSre~eL~ber. I b‘lori~ed to :.~rstei~ Jim Abercronihie. His

	:~t~tion ~ ‘bout si~teen miles north of Ï~rion in 3ihb county. When ~ c: ~on ‚ ~‚~oun~ Jir~~, ~ ‚ led, old ~-arse J~ï c4ve me to Mm and he fotcbed

	to Perr~y count~,r.

“I~ø‘~ old :2~irster didn‘t ~o~oD war ‘c~~se ~Te W25 corrunted; te