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	S ~ ~ done left there thirty-six years - will be this• August.

	.	“When we was small, my daddy would make horse collars, cotton baskets and mattresses at night and work in the field in the dayt ime and preach on Sunday. He fell down in Bed.ie g‘ s lot throwint up shucks in the barn. He was standin‘~ on the wagon and I guess he lost hIs balance. They sent and got the best doctor in the country and he said he broke his nabel string. They preached

. his funeral ever year for five years. Seemed like they just couldnTt give him up.

	“White folks told my mother if she wouldn ‚ t marry again and mess up Uncle Jakets chillun, they‘d help her, but she‘married that man and he b eat us so I don ‚ t know how I can remember anything .‚ He wouldn‘t let us go to school. Had to work and just live like
~ pigs.	.

	“Oh, I used to be a tiger bout work, but I fell ‘on the ice in ‘twenty.nine and I ain‘t never got over lt. I said I. just had a death shock. ~

	~i never went to school but three months in my life, Didn‘t go long enough to learn anything.

	“I was bout a mile from where I was born when I professed religion. ~viy daddy had taught us the right way. I tell you, in them days you ldn‘ t join the church unies s you had been changed.

	“I come here when they was emigratin‘ the folks here to Arkansas.tt .