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fifteen cents. Buggies ~ twenty-flve oent~. Wagons ~ Lifty eent$. The state broke that up and made new roads. Some they changed a little and u$ed. After that I 3tand ‘bout on roads through fields ~ short ways folks went but where the farmers had to keep closed up on count of the crops. I open and shut the gate. They‘d throw nie a nickel. That was first money I made stayin‘ at toll gates about Columbia, Tennessee.

	“Ku Klux come to our house and took my papa off wid em. Mama was cryin‘, she told us children they was goiner hurt him. I recollect all bout it. They thought my papa knowed about some man bein‘ killed. My papa died wid knots on his neck where they hung him up wid ropes. It hurt him all his life after that. It made him sick what all they done to him tryin‘ to make him tell who killed somebody. He was laid up a long time. I recollect that • Then they found out papa dldn ‚ t know nothin ‚ bout lt ‚ they said they was sorry they done him so mean.

	“I vote a Republican ticket lack my papa till I eluded it not the party, it is the ‘man that rules right. I voted fur Mr. Roosevelt. I know he is. (A Democrat) I know‘d. i~t when I voted for him. Times is tough but they was worse ‘fo he got elected. Things you buy gets higher and higher that makes it bad. We got two hogs, one cow, few chickens and a home. I owns my home for a fact. My wife is ‘73. I sin purty nigh 75 years old. What make it hard on us ‚ we is bout wore out.

	“I been farinin‘ and carpenterin‘ all my life. Last years I been farmin‘ wid Mr. L. M. Osborne at Osborne. We work forty acres and made 57 bales. I had a team and he had a team. So I worked it on halves. That was long time ago. In 1929 I believe. Best farmin ‚. I ever done . ~ We got twenty cents pound.“