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	thsy don‘t work herd ai I did. I works nov hard as th.y do. . They ought to work. I don‘t know what ~ing to bsoo~e ob them. I can‘t help what they do.

	\\ The times is herd to old folks cauee they ain‘t able to work and heap ob ti they ain‘t no pork to ~ to do.

	„ Noom I lived at Bslls, Arkansas for I come to Hickory Plaine and Dee Arc. I don‘t know no kin bat ~y mother. Sh died dunn the war.

Noom not all de white folks good to the niggera. 8ome mean. They

whoop em. Some white folka good. Jea lak de nigger., dera some ob

em mighty good end some ob ein mean.

	‘\ I works when I can get a little to do and de relief gives me a little.

	‘\i ~ er hundred years old Cause I knows I is. White folk. ell tell you I am.