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	“A white man asked me how rauch they givin‘ me. I said, ~i~ht dollars.‘ He said, ‘You ought to be ~itt in‘ twenty-five . ‚ ~ I ‚ ‘Maybe I ought to be but I ain‘t.‘

	“I ain‘t able to do no work now. I ain‘t able to tote that wood hardly. I don‘t git as rauch consideration as they give the slaves back yonder. They didn‘t rr]ake the old people in slavery work when they was my ace. My daddy when he was my age, they turned him out. They give him a rice patch where he could make his rice. When he died, he had a whole lot of rice. They stopped putting all the slaves out at hard labor when they ~ot old. That‘s one thins. White folks will take care of their old ones. Our folks won‘t do it. They‘ll take a stick and kill you. They don‘t reoo~nize you‘re human. Their parents don‘t teach them. Folks done quit teaching their children. They don‘t teach them the right thing no more. If they don‘t do, then they ought to make them do.


Little Rock

	“I been here about twenty years in Little Rock. I went and bought this place and paid for it, Somebody stole seventy-~five dollars from me right here in this house. ~nd that got rae down. I ain‘t never been able to git up since.

	“I paid a man for what he did for me. He said, ‘Well, you owe me fifteen cents.‘ ‘~hen he ~ot done he said, ‘You. owe me fifty cents.‘ You can‘t trust a man in the city.

	“I was living down in england. That‘s a little old country town. I come here to Little Rook where I could be in a city. I done well. I bought
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