Saturday ni&!3t . • My father and mother always be1origed~ to d~ifferent inaatera in alaiéry tiáe. ~ the‘ Dougiaeaes ~id the Cùrrya were five or slÏ 111es ~ apart. My fÀt1~r ~u~1d~ waIic~ tI~t dl2tance on Saturday night and etay thire all day SuPday and ~it tip before day In the morning ~ouiay so that he would be baók home Monday morning In time for his work. I remember myself whsi we inovedawa~. That‘~ wien my mer~ry first atarts. ~

	~	. “I could ~es that old. white ~mau come out begging a~d saying, ‘Um~1ë Washington, ~‘1eaae don‘t carr~ Aunt Lize a‘ But we went on e.~ray.

Ihm we got there we was going, my n~ther made a ~aiiet in the floor that night, ath the tbree ch11th~en slept on the pallet on the floor. Nothing to eat——nöt a bite. I ‚ent to bed hungry, and you. know 1~w it is when you go to bed hungry, you can‘t sleep. I jerk a little nod, and then I‘d be alake ag&in~ith the gnawing in my stomach. one time I woke up, and there was a big light in the house, axd father was working at the table, ati~ mama reac hed. o ver and sal d., ‚ St lok your head back under the co ver again ‚ you little rascal you.‘ I won‘t say uhat I saw. J~ut i‘ll aa~ this much. We had the finest breakfast the next morning that i ever ate in all my life.

	“I iieed~ to hear my p~ple talk about pateroles but I don‘t reckon I can r ecall now what t he y ~ iii. The re I s a man in Washington nam~. Bob Sanders. iie knows everything about slavery, and politics too. ae used to be a regular politician. ~e is about ninety years old. They came there and got him about two year a~o arid paid him ten dollars a iay and his fare.

Man came up and ~t him arx3. carried hirn to the capitol in his car. They

~ . were writing up son~thing about Arkansas history.

	“I have been married fifty—seven years. ~ I married in 1881. My wife was a beaOne. I married on Fsbruary tenth in Temeasee at Stanton. Nancy. Lemons.