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They atayed~ on the place till I was big enou~,h to work. I didn‘t do no work in alave time becauae I wam‘ t old enough.
	~	Ghoked on Watermelon Seede	~

	“One day I waa ~tea11ng watermelons wi‘th eo~e big boys and I got choked on acme‘ seeda. The melon seeds got in my. throat. I yelled tor help and the boys ran away. Old Torn Brewer made rae get on my hands and jump up and down to get the seeds out .


Leaving Galve8ton

	RI was a ~na.ll boy, might have been seven or eight years old, when I

left Galveston. We came to Bradley County, here in Arkansas. ~ ~‘adley my mother took ins to Pine Bluff. After I got big I went back to T~xaa.

Then I caine from Texas here fifty-three years ago, and have been living here ever since ‚ cooking tor hotels and private familieS.

	~I never was arrested in my life • I never been in trouble • I never had a fight • Been living in the aame place ever since I firat came here— right here at 1112 Park street. I belong to the Chriatian Church. at Thirteenth and Cross Streeta. I quit working around the yard and the building because they iouldn‘ t pay me anything, They prcr~i s.d to pay n~, but they wouldn‘t do it.~