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gin. My auntie seen 8omebody go in the gin one night but didn‘t think bout them settin‘ it on fire. They Irnd a torch, I recken, in there • All I knowed, it burned up and Mos Ely had to take our land back and sell it to pay for four or five hundred bales of cotton got burned up that time. We stayed on and sharecropped with him. We lived between Egypt and Okolona, It~tississippi. Aberdeen was our tradin‘ point.

	“I come to Arkansas railroading. I railroaded forty years. Worked on the section, then I belong to the extra gang. I help build this railroad to Memphis. .

	~	~i did own ~. home but I got in debt and had to sell it and let my money go.

	“Times is so changed and the young folks different. They t t work only nough to ge t by and they want you to give em all

you got. They take it if they can. Nobody got time to work. I think times is worse than they ever been, cause folks hate to
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work so bad. I ‘in talking bout hard work, field work • Jobs young

folks want is scarce ; jobs they could get they ‘ t want • They want to i~un about and fool around an get by.

	u ~ ge t ~8 . 00 and provi s ions from the government.“