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They catch ‘em and beat ‘em half to death. I heard they hung some of ‘em. No, I dlan‘t ~ee lt. I knew one or two they beat. They took some of the niggers right out of the cotton patch and dressed them up end drilled ‘em. When they cœ~e back they was boastful. Then they had to beat it out of ‘em. Some oi° ‘em didn‘t want to go back to work. Since I growed up I thought it out that Mr. Spence was reasonably good. to me but I didn‘t think so then. It was a restlessness then like it ~ ~ ‘mong the young class of folks. The truth is they don ‚ t know what they want nor what to do and they don‘ t do nothing much no time.

	*1 went to see my mother. I wrote and wrote, had my white folks write till I found my folks. I went back several times. Mother died in 1902. We used to could beat rides on freight trains—that was mighty dangerous. We could work our way on the boats. I got to rambling trying to do better. I come to Phillips County. They cut it up, named it Lee. I ~ot down in here and married. I was jus‘ rambling ‘round. I been in Lee County sixty-one years. I married toreckly after I come here. I been married twice, both! wives dead. I was about twenty-three years old when I married. I had four children. My last • child got killed. A limb fell on him twenty years ago in April. He was grown and at work in the timber.

	“I farmed all my life-—seventy years of it. I like it now and if I was able I would not set up here in town a minute. J‘us‘ till I could get out there is all time it would take for rae to get back to farming. I owned two little places. I sold the first fifty acres when my wife was sick so I could do for her. She died. My last wife got sick. I was no ‘count and had to quit work • Mr. lxipree built that little house for me ‚ he said for all I had done for ‘im. He said it would be my home long as I live. He keeps another old man living out there the ss~a way. Mr. Thipree is sick--in bad health—.~