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.	We farmed bout, cleared land. Never got muc~a ~o the hard work we
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done. The white man don learned how to figure the black folk8 out of what was n~a~de cept a bare living. . ~

.	I could read. a little and write. He could too. We went to 8011001
	a little in Tennessee.	~ ~	~ ~ .

	When we ~ot so we not able to work hard he come to town and. carpentered, ri~t here, and I cooked fo Mr. hopkins seven years and to Mr. ~Gus Thweatt and f0 M~. Nick Thweatt. ~7e got a little ahead then by the hardest. I carried my money right here (bag on a string tied around her waist~. We bought a house and five acres of land. No mum I don‘t owIl it now. We ~ot in hard :Luek and give a mortgage. • They elo~ed u~ out. kir. Sanders. ~ They sa~r I can live there 1on~ as I lives. But they owns ‘it. My garden eenee is down and won‘t nobody fix it up fo me. They promises to come put the po$ts in but they won‘t ao it and I ain‘t able

~	no mo. I had a garden this year. Spoke fo a pig but the man said they all died wid the ko1erg~choler~j. ~o I ath‘t got n~‘meat to eat dis year.

	I ain‘t never had a chile. Iain‘t ~ nobody kin to i~e livin dat I kno~is bout. When I sets sick a neighbor ~ioma~ comes ovei and looks after nie.

	I thinks if de present ~eneration don‘t ~et killed they C~ie cause they too lazy to work. No mum dey ‘ t know nuthin bout work. They ain‘t ~ot no religion. They so &riart they don‘t pay no ten~on to what you advise ein. I never tries to fixid out what Coiks dom and. the young generation i~ killiu tirae, I sho never did vote. I don‘t believe in

it.	The women ruiniin the world now. The old folks ain‘t got no money