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	“Alex Rogers waan‘ t a good man.~ Ha‘ d tell them to steal a hog and git homo wid it. If they ketch you over there theytli whoop you. Re‘d help eat hogs they‘d 8tea1~

	“One time papa wae working ox~ the roads. The neighbor man and road man was fixing up their eating. Re purty itigh starved on that road work! He was hired out.

	“Mama and papa spoke like they was mighty glad to get sat free. Soix~ believed they‘d git freedom and others didn‘t. They had places they met and prayed for freedom. They stole out in some of their houses and turned a washpot down at the door, Another white man, not Alex Rogers, tole inan* and papa and a heap others out in the field working. She say they quit and had a regular bawl in the field. They cried and laughed and hollered and danced. Lot of them run offen the place soon as the man tole ‘em. My folks stayed that year and another year,

	“What is I been doiiig? Ast me is I been doing? !hat am‘ t I been doing be more like it, I raised fifteen ot my own children. I got tour livings I living wid on~e right here in dis house wid me now, I worked on the farm purty nigh all my life. I ccn~ to dis place,~ Wild, honey, it was I cc~ In 1901. Heap of changes since then~

	‘Present t1i~&.«Not as xi~~ch union ‘mongat young black and white as the old black and ~iite~ They growing apart, Nobody got~ nothin‘ to give. No work. I used to could buy second‘handed clothes to do my little children a year for a little or nothin‘ • Won‘ t sell ‚ em now nor give ‚ em ‘way neither, They don‘t work hard as they used to. They say they don‘t git nothin‘ autan

lt.	They don‘t want to work. Times harder in wintOr ‘cause it cold and things to eat killed out. I cans meat. We dry beef. In town this Nicke1«~ lodlan playing wild wid young colored folks—-.theae Sea Bird imisic boxes.