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You don‘ t know what a deadening la? That ‚ a a lease, He cleaned up sc~ land, We boys were just gattin‘ so we could pick up brush arid tops of treés—snd burn it ‚ and one thing and another. Two years after the War was over, I got

big enough to plow. I was plowing when I was nine years old. We had three boys and four girls older than x~s. The balance of them was born after

freedom. We made crops on shares for three years after freedom, and then wa

commenced to rent. Shares were one-third of the cotton and one-fourth of the

corn. They didn‘ t pay everything they prcxiiiaed. They taken a lot of It away fro~n US. They said figures didn‘t lie. You know how that was. You dassent dispute a man‘ e word then. Son~tIn~a a man would get mad and beat up hie overseer and run him away. ~it my daddy wouldn‘t do lt. He said, ‘Well, if I owe anything I‘ll pay it. I got a large family to take care of.‘

	NI never got a chance to go to school any. There was too naich work to do, I married when I was twenty—one, I would go off and stay a month or two and co~ back. Never left hc~ permanent for a long while. Stayed ‘round home till I was forty years old. I cois to Arkansas iii 1898. I z~de a living by farming at tiret,

	‘I didn‘t shoot no craps. I belong to the church. I have belonged to the church about torty years or more. I did play cards and shoot craps and things like that for years before I got religion.

	‘I co~ to Little Rock in 1918 and been here ever since, I wor~d ‘round here in town first one thing and then another. Worked at the railroad end on
like that.	~.

	“We used to vote right mnart in Mississippi. Had a little trouble acmeti~a but it would soon die dom. I haven‘t voted since I been here • Do no good nohow. Can‘ t vote in nons of these primary elections,