7f:
Ala barna
de fust un, an! had two chilluns by her, den I lef‘ her ~caze she vi~rn‘t no ‘count. Dats been forty year ago, an‘ I ain‘t neber

seen ~iy chilluns in all dein years. My second vîife I got when I

lived th~,xty miles below B1r~irïgham, Alabama, at de ol‘ Bank Mines. D~ts been thirty-~f1ve year ago an‘ us is still together. Us a±n1t :~eber had no chilluns. No‘m, I don‘t know nothin‘ ‘bout Abe

L~inco1n ‘ceptin‘ dey say he sot us free, an! I don‘t know nothin‘ ~bout dat ne1~bèr.


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