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and you have to stay on or etarve or go g.t somebody iLse 1.t you shar. crop wid them. Le the ti~ cc~ on the blaok man ~te to handle a littis mo silver and greenbacks than he ueed to. 8lavee didn‘t hardly ever handle any money long as he live. He nevex‘ buy nothin, he hare no use for mony. White folkB burned money dunn the war. Some of thee had a heap or money.

	“I hare voted )~at I don‘t keep up wid it no mo. It been a long ti~ since I voted. Thu ia the white rolke country an they goinr run it theireoirea. No uaen me vote. No use the women votin ae I aes it. ~Tea makes mo votee to count. The rich white man is goiner

run the country anyhow.

	~I far~et all my lits. I been here in Bieooe tifty-ei~ht yeere. I worked for Richardson, Biscoe, Peeplea, Nail. I owned a home, paid $150 for it. I mad. it in three year. when had go.d slops.

	‘Tiwse are harder now than I ever seen a her. • It you have a hog you have to pen it up and buy fe.d. If you have a cow, when ths grass die, ehe is to tsed. ir you have chickens ther ain‘t no uss talkin, they starve if you don‘t teed e~. No money to ~ty em wid an no money to buy feed for ~. Times is hard. Darin the cotton boou times do fine (cotton picking tii~). The young tolke is happy. They ain‘t got no thought of the future. Mighty hard to make young roiks think they ever get old. They. lookin at right now. Ravin em a good time while they young.“