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Pate come and ~ot them. They went off in a wagon that Tate made for his master, Bill Keller. We come to Tupelo, Mississippi froiii Mobile when I was a little bit of a ~ir1. Then we made one crop and come to lielčna. Uncle Tate died there and mania died. at Crocketts Bluff. My papa died back in Mobile, Alabama. He was breakixi~ e. young horse and ~ot throwed up side a tree • He didn‘ t live long then.

~ “I got three boys now and I had seben~a1l boys. They fai~ns and do public work. Torn. is in Memphis. Pete is in. Helena and I live wid. Macon between here (Viheatley) and Cotton Plant. We farm. I done everything could be thought of on a 1~anii. I ploughed soins less than five year ago. I liked to olough. My boy p1ou~hs all he can no~ and we do the chopping. We all pick cotton and get in the corn. ~ie work day laborers now.

	“If I was young the t irne s wouldn‘ t ~ stand in ray way. I could nake it.

I don‘t know what is the trouble lessen some wants too rauch. They can‘t get it. We has a living and thankful tor it. I never ‘plied for no help yet.

	“I still knits my winter stockings. I got knitting needles and cards my own mother had and used, I ~ot use for them. I wears clothes on my body in cold weather. One reason you young folks ain‘t no ‘count you don‘t wear enough clothes when it is cold. I wear flannel clothes if I can get holt of them.

	“education done ruint the world. I learnt to read a little. I never went t o school • I learnt to work. I learnt my boy~ t o go ‘~iith me to the field and not to be ashamed to sweat. It‘s healthy. They all works.“
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