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	“After freedom Ad March went back to North Carolina and Spru~oe L~cCrary come here to Pine Bluff0

	“Fust tine I moved here in town was in 1888, 1 etayed ten month8~ then I went back to the country0 I aimed to ~o to 1~‘ort ~nith but I got to talkin‘ with niy playmates and I didn‘t have too much nioney, and I stayed till I didn‘t have enough money left to keep rue till I could ~et a jobs So I stayed here and worked for Mrs. Freemeyer till I ~ot so I couldn‘t work, 3h‘ s the one got me on thi s relief,

	“I went to school one session in 1886, Sam Caeser, he was a well~— known teacher, He ~ot killed here in Pine Bluff,

	ni can‘t sweep and I can‘t Iron. 1 got a misery in my back, I washes my clothes and spreads ‘ein out till they dry, Then I puta ‘ein on and switches into church and ever‘body thinks they has been ironed,

	“They~ain‘t but one sign I believes in and that‘s peckerwoods, 4Tust as sure as he pecks three times, somebody goin‘ to move or somebody goin‘ to die. 3ust as sure as you live somebody goin‘ out,

	“One time one of my grandchildren and a friend of mine was walkin‘ through the woods and we missed the main road we aimed to ketch, and we got into a den of wild hogs, I said, ‘Lord, make ‘em stand still till we get out of here.‘ One of ‘em was that tall and big long ears hung down over his eyes. That was the male, you know. I reckon they couldn‘t see us and we walked as easy as we could and we got away and stiuck the main road, I re ckon j f the y could a seen us we wo~ild a been ‚ tacked but we got away, I had heard how they made people take to trees, and I was scared~

	“Have you ever seen a three~..1egged cow? Well, I have, I looked at her good. She was grown and had a calf,~