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	“My mistress said to n~ when I got back horn., ‘You‘re fit... Go on out in the orchard and git yossif acme peaches.‘ They had a yard full of peach... Baby did I git n~ acme peachsß. I pulled a bushel of

‘em.


Li Klux Klan

	RTh. Ku Klux run my father out of the fisid. once. And the WhIt

people went end got thm ‘bOut it. Th.y aaid, ‘Tuai is hard, and can‘t have these psople loam‘ time out of ths fisida. You ist th.es people work.‘ A w..k after that, they didn‘t do no ~. Th. ~ flux didn‘t. 8c~body laid th.m out. I uad to go out to the fisida and they would ask ~‚ ‘J‘eff Bailsy, ihat you dom‘ out hers?‘ I vasa little boy and you jus‘ ought to sien me gittin‘ ‘way trum thers. Ihooo.~..e..I


	sI used to pick cottoz~ back yonder in ~nticeilo. I can‘t pick no cotton now. Naw Laidi I‘m too old. I can‘t do that kind of work now~• I need help. Carl Baii.y knowe . He‘ll help . I‘~ a hoatler. I handle horses. I uasd to pick cotton forty years ago. My mother washed clothes right after th. War to git iia childrsn aomethin‘ to eat. Sc~~ times ecubody would give us somethin‘ to help us out.

RTilda Bailey, that was my nothsr. Shs and my father b.longsd to

diffsrsnt aastsrs. Bailey was her master‘ a n~. ~is always callsd ~ esif Bailey and I call myself Bailey. If I die, I‘ll bs Bail.y. My insurance is in the ne~ of Bail.y. My rather and moth.r had about .i~t childr.n. They raiasd all their children in MontioeUo~ You ever bssn to Monticello? I had a good time in Monticello. I was a baby wh•n psacs was dsclarsd. J!ust toddling ‘round.